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Vacancy: Materials Planner

Location: Birmingham/Hybrid - You will be expected to travel to other sites in the UK as required.

Salary: Competitive

Are you tired of your current role? Are you after a new challenge? Do you want to work for a market leader that supports some of the largest blue-chip companies, that has continued growth?

If so, this could be the role for you!

Our client is one of the world's leading providers of Integrated Supply Solutions to manufacturing industries for the provision of MRO (indirect) products. Their portfolio consists of Procurement Services, Transactional Processing, Stores Management, and Inventory Optimisation enabled by industry-leading digital platforms. They deliver world-class results to world-class companies in industries such as Pharmaceuticals, Foods, Beverage, Automotive, and Aerospace.

About the Role:

The Materials Planner has the responsibility of being familiar with the client's contract details, objectives, key performance metrics, opportunity identification and program pipeline implementation.
Programs include sourcing strategies for current and future projects and working with several projects in tandem.
The role will be working very closely with Operations and the Global Procurement Management Teams to deliver each individual project on time and in line with project timing scope.
The role is a proactive delivery role and requires a relevant mindset in delivery of such activities to drive benefits and efficiencies for the client and for RS Integrated Supply in terms of processing and communications deliveries.Key Responsibilities:

Schedule the supply of materials/components to meet production and project requirements, managing leadtime, in line with customer demand, activity identifying mitigation actions and preventative measures to ensure project effectiveness.
Plan, develop, implement, and evaluate processes for material delivery from supplier to point of delivery.
Work with key customer stakeholders to assess volume requirements against planning assumptions (safety stock levels)
Implement all processes to agreed standards and targets and support continuous improvement initiatives and identify areas of improvement.
Support inventory checks to validate inventory accuracy and monitor such levels against agreed target levels.Key Skills:

Experience of delivering strong measurable results through project and service activities and the ability to influence through others to deliver these results.
Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to build long term relationships with clients and stakeholders at site level with a self-awareness required to operate successfully at a senior level.
Ability to interpret reports into actions.
Resilient and robust - the intellect and strength of character to deal with a demanding leadership team and stakeholder group.
A technical background with familiarity of Maintenance, Repair and Operating Materials is recommended. A working knowledge of M.R.P., JIT, and related systems is desirable.If this sounds like the role for you, please apply today!

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