Materials Planning Manager role based in Manchester. Senior Management role working for a growing industrial manufacturing company. Client Details Our client is a growing, well established manufacturing company in Manchester Description · Responsible for providing leadership to the materials planning and commercial team. · Leads the Sales, Inventory and Operations Planning (SIOP) process. Incorporating all supporting functions and presents the executive overview to the senior leadership team. · Responsible for overseeing the coordination of all manufacturing order creation to the shop through analysis of Sales Order requirements. · Develop requirements and standards to ensure business goals and performance metrics are attained through a cohesive standard of work. · Work closely with Operations, Production, MRO and Engineering to establish true capacity plans based on demands vs resource availability. · Monitors throughput and adherence to plan. Reports on recovery and constraints. · Strives to enable the team to fully utilise the ERP system to full functionality. Developing reporting mechanisms and standardising across the team/group where possible. · Develops a best practice sharing mentality between the team. Reaching out to sister sites and adopting a continuous improvement attitude. · Analyse inventory levels for purchased and manufactured goods. M...