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Planning Manager

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Job Description - Planning Manager

Are you ready to take on a new role? If so, we're looking for a dynamic Planning Manager to join this long-standing brand! Reporting directly to the Head of Supply, this is a pivotal role that will oversee all planning and procurement activities to ensure every customer promise is delivered.

What’s in it for you?

  • Work Hours: Monday to Thursday 8:30am to 4:45pm and Friday - 8:30am to 3:45pm
  • Salary guide: £50,000 - £53,000 with a £5k company bonus
  • 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
  • Access to a pension scheme
  • Wellbeing events and access to an EAP
  • Cycle to Work scheme
  • Monthly incentives
  • Regular events
  • Death in Service insurance
  • Health Cash Plan
  • Employee Discounts
  • Free on-site car park

Planning Manager Responsibilities:

  • Drive end-to-end planning and procurement activities to support production and customer expectations
  • Develop manufacturing and stock strategies, ensuring requirements and capacity planning meet operational and customer needs
  • Manage product life cycles, from new product introductions and engineering updates to product exits
  • Oversee production planners to ensure all plans reflect customer requirements and KPIs are met
  • Manage stock to ensure customer requirements are met
  • Supervise product transitions and phase-outs with a focus on minimising waste and risk
  • Support product launches with robust pilot builds, ramp-up plans, and go-to-market execution
  • Lead engineering changes on products while maintaining workflow integrity
  • Utilise category code management for stock at risk of obsolescence
  • Develop capacity and pre-build plans to optimise workflows for the planning and procurement team and minimise bottlenecks
  • Build relationships with suppliers to plan for product supply and demand
  • Sign off on production plans
  • Grow and mentor the planning and procurement team through regular performance reviews
  • Collaborate with commercial teams to provide accurate availability updates, manage customer expectations, and identify issues

Planning Manager Skills and Experience:

  • Possesses considerable experience as a Planning Manager, gained within a manufacturing or planning environment
  • Confident overseeing stock, working to stock targets and deadlines
  • Management experience, capable of managing and developing a team
  • Extraordinary problem-solving skills, solutions-focused with a proven track record of developing and implementing improvement initiatives
  • Exceptional organisational skills, able to manage multiple projects and priorities
  • Excellent communicator, able to liaise professionally at all levels and inspire a team
  • Strong commercial acumen
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