Planning Manager 18 Month Fixed Term contract, from £40,000pa Manufacturing Blackburn Our client, a leading Manufacturing business are currently recruiting for a Planning Manager. The purpose of this role is to manage the Planning Team, providing the customer base with a high service level whilst evolving the planning process. You will continually seek ways to improve the planning processes by optimising operations, by continually revisiting the master data, to achieve agreed key performance indicator targets. Role duties · Manage the material scheduling function to ensure material is ordered and available for production at the right price, right time. · Provide the business with a rolling 18-month production plan, reviewing demand against capacity and highlighting issues to the senior team · Ensure the Planner provides the finite planning team with a rough-cut capacity plan for a rolling 8-week schedule · Ensure production planned efficiently and in line with Customer forecast/demand and to agreed inventory targets, communicating to the business any requirements for stock build that exceed these targets · Prepare and present the Supply Review as part of the company’s Sales and Operations Planning process, using the data from the Demand process to highlight any scenarios requiring further action. Skills and experience required · Experience of an FMCG Environ...