Demand Planner

CV-Library • Bedale, North Yorkshire • 59min ago

The Rewards and Benefits on Offer:

A full-time and permanent opportunity
A role within a technologically driven and forward-thinking manufacturing facility.
Immediate Starts available
Progression and Development opportunities
A competitive basic salary
Company pension
Free onsite parking
Generous Holiday Entitlement

MTrec’s New Job Opportunity:

MTrec Technical are representing our well-established and forward-thinking manufacturing client in their search for a dedicated and passionate Demand Planner. This role will be responsible for ensuring the smooth flow of production through methodical and strategic planning, within a busy and fast-moving environment.

If you meet the person specification below, apply now for an immediate response.

The Job You Will Do:

Responsible for the issuing of production plans on a day-to-day basis for the production lines.
Review, analyse and adapt customer forecasts to the business's production plan.
Support the Demand Lead in the strategic review of the production requirements, identifying potential challenges.
Review short-term customer forecasting.
Attend and support in weekly customer meetings from a planning perspective.
Attending daily production meetings, liaising with key stakeholders from across internal business areas
Leading weekly production meetings, liaising with key stakeholders from across internal business areas.
Review, communicate and report on production plan movements, across all relevant stakeholders.
Review feasibility and communicate any movements within the firm period with both customers and internal departments.
Working with the Demand Lead to support both customer and business requirements.
Build good work relationships with customers and other cross-functional team members.
Ensure accurate parameters are reflected in SAP and regularly reviewed to achieve optimum materials inventory holding within the network
Ensure production plans are accurate and aligned with production parameters for the following 12 weeks. Inclusive of operating hours, quality parameters and engineering requirements.
Proactively identify slow-moving and obsolete SKU risks, report and follow up by closely working with other functional teams.
Review existing processes and work closely with the procurement team to improve accuracy and efficiencies, where possible.
Ensure production requirements are within agreed min/max levels to best service both the customer and logistics.
To take ownership of customer stock levels and forecasting, regularly updating the other members of the planning team and customer accounts.
React to issues daily, created both internally and by customers.
Provide demand planning support for colleagues when required.