Supply Chain Planner
Hereford
Automotive Aftermarket
The Company
Supply Chain Planner required by global, market leading precision components supplier, providing components for engine, transmission and chassis applications.
The Role:
Supply Chain Planner required to maximise customer satisfaction of Industrial and Automotive customers by understanding their needs and influencing the internal and external supply chains to meet those needs:
- Support Central SCM with Market specific information to improve the quality of the UK forecast for Industrial and Automotive.
- Direct contact with suppliers to expedite due/overdue deliveries.
- Evaluate and report on supplier delivery performance.
- Develop and maintain forecasts for UK Automotive
- Monitor the availability of product in the UK within an assigned group of products and take actions to maintain availability at a level agreed with the Inventory Control Manager
- Place purchase schedules with internal and external suppliers and validate their responses.
- Have direct internal contact with our Customer Service Advisors and Goods Inwards personnel on product availability etc.
- Provide information to customers via Sales or Customer Service regarding the likely availability of specific product lines.
- Develop and maintain a program for the assembly of local kits in Hereford.
- Participate in Cross-functional and International teams to ensure the smooth delivery of new product ranges and customer support actions.
The Person:
This is an exciting opportunity for a supply chain / logistics planner to join a growing organisation, we are seeking a planner with preferably an automotive or high volume manufacturing / distribution environment:
- Strong analytical skills, expediting
- Excellent communication skills, ability to communicate with a variety of stakeholders including; customers, suppliers, sales, product management, central SCM.
- Demonstrable experience c. 2 years' with supply chain planning, production planning , inbound supply chain.
- SAP, MS Excel and Access/SQL
Interested? Please contact or call directly for further info. 01384 446162.
