Role: Planning & Operational Specialist Location: Cheltenham 8am - 4.45pm (8am - 12.30pm Friday) Benefits: flexible working and excellent benefits including 27 days holiday allowance (before bank holidays), 3 days’ paid volunteering leave, comprehensive private healthcare, enhanced pension plan, life assurance, optional participation in a Share Ownership Plan, free onsite parking. Overview: To create, review and manage the assembly production plan for your designated lines, working with the production teams to supply all demand in line with the customer requirements. The role includes an active involvement with new projects, the calculation of existing and new stock levels and process design / review within the department. Responsibilities: Planning & Operational Specialist Fully understand, review and action MRP messages based on an appropriate degree of analysis of the supply and demand situation. To manage the release of sales order demand with the aim of balancing customer requirements with production capabilities. Review items as part of the regular Inventory modelling (IQM) process and be able to interpret and recommend the ideal inventory settings and key opportunities to optimize the inventory level e.g. batch size adjustment, lead-time reduction Manage all product sales lead-times aiming to maintain on time to customer requested dates while maintaining the ability to deliver product on time to commitment. Re...