About the role
We are looking for a Gift Supply Planner to join our Gift Supply Chain Team to organise the assembly of Gifts from material ordering through to execution and delivery of the plan. This is a permanent role within the Gift Planning Team, working in our head office in Nottingham.
This role will be working within the Gift Team, reporting to a Senior Gift Planner. The successful candidate will plan gifts for well-known brands like S&G and No7. Key responsibilities:
1. Create plans for the assembly of gifts in line with Customer requirements.
2. Order and manage materials required to meet the gift assembly plans ensuring high levels of inventory accuracy.
3. Represent the Gift Planning function at project meetings and provide regular updates on the status of the programmes being manufactured to key stakeholders.
4. Understand and manage inventory levels by taking action to reduce and clear Excess & Obsolete stocks.
5. Develop relationships with Suppliers, actively collaborating & challenging vendor performance to drive availability.
What you’ll need to have
6. Experience within a Supply Chain environment
7. Ability to prioritise workload to ensure that key milestones are met and to deal with a variety of stakeholders
8. Customer-centric in your approach, seeing service as a priority
9. ‘Make it happen’ approach with operational excellence and agility to deliver results whilst controlling risk
10. Highly collaborative with strong commercial awareness
It would be great if you also have
11. Supply Chain Planning experience
12. Good mathematical skills
13. Experience of SAP
14. Experience of Inventory Management
15. Experience of Managing Suppliers
Our benefits
16. Retirement Savings Plan
17. Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay
18. Discretionary annual bonus
19. Generous discount on our own brands and partner businesses
20. Flexible benefits schemeincluding holiday buying, discounted gym membership, life assurance, activity passes and much more.