Planning & Logistics Manager – £40,000-£43,000 33 Days holiday Early Finish Friday Pension Private Medical Career Progression The Company: We are working with a market leader who are experiencing significant growth. They have a clear path for future company growth and as such are looking to add a Planning & Logistics Manager to their team in Doncaster. You will be joining a team of experienced industry professionals with a chance to progress your career within a growing business with an excellent brand reputation. The Role: In this capacity, the Planning & Logistics Manager will be tasked with co-ordinating the flow and management of the product and materials. The Planning & Logistics Manager will plan and review in conjunction with the production and commercial teams the short-, medium- and long-term production schedules. Main Responsibilities: * Monitoring both daily and weekly production against plan. * Create production schedule and prioritise by customer. * Interact with shop floor management daily to highlight issues, coordinate with colleagues to devise a solution, ensuring production schedules are maintained. * Highlight any potential bottlenecks to stakeholders. * Oversee the delivery and despatch of bogies / materials in a safe, timely and cost-effective manner. * Achieve financial objectives by helping to prepare annual budgets, analysing variances and initiating corrective actions. * Liaise with Production to ensure all transactions are closed out prior to shipment. * Communicate with internal suppliers, provide a build plan to the production division, manage / expedite delivery between the two facilities to the planned dates. * Attend the morning Production meeting and RAG meetings.and attend monthly review and cost update meetings. * Produce monthly KPI reports and graphs, for Scheduling and logistics. * Manage and maintain the monthly WIP and completions tracker, presenting data back to the business. * Ensure route cards are printed and issued to the facility on receipt of overhaulable assets. * Develop / mentor direct reports through training and appraising. Monitor attendance ensuring sickness absence reviews are completed. * Complete annual performance appraisal for direct reports. What We Are Looking For: The Planning & Logistics Manager will ideally have experience in a similar role and be a forward-thinking individual with attention to detail. Ideally you will be/have: * Experience of managing in a fast-moving warehousing and distribution environment, ideally within a manufacturing operation. * Strong commercial awareness with the ability to fully understand budget and financial targets. * MRP/ERP experience. * Proven ability to lead and motivate personnel, with excellent people management skills. * A good understanding of modern lean manufacturing techniques. * Proficient level of IT and ability to use such as Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook. * Effective communication skills. * Work collaboratively and influence to build strong, trusting relationships with peers and other business departments. * Manage conflicting deadlines and able to prioritise, plan workload for themselves and others effectively. * Solid judgement and the ability to influence senior stakeholders to provide pace to get things delivered. Salary and Benefits details: * Annual Bonus * Early Finish Fridays * Enhanced Company Pension * 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays (increasing with service). * Private Medical * Free parking & career Progression Opportunities in a growing business