Product Planner

• Purchasing
• Supply and planning
• CIPS useful

Job Title: Product Planner
Location: Telford
Reports to: Purchasing Lead
Purpose of Post: Part of a small team with overall responsibility for; material supply and inventory holdings from a range of selected suppliers and product categories to ensure product availability and maximum inventory efficiency and performance
Key Areas of responsibility:
Management of company inventory;
• Monitoring of product sales, forecasting of future demand patterns and setting run rates for supply, reviewing, monitoring and maintaining accuracy
• Overseeing and raising purchase orders against internal and external suppliers, in line with supplier purchasing rules and demand planning policies
• Overseeing and Expediting / De-expediting purchase orders to meet both customer and business demands in line with supplier stocking policies
• Sku management, performance and review to ensure optimum stocking policy setting and efficiency of stock holdings within targeted guidelines (Availability, Value and Stock Turn)
• Life cycle management and maintenance in conjunction with Product Managers, including NPO and End of Life management
• Supplier performance monitoring, review and reporting
• Resolution and negotiation of commercial issues associated with supplier terms and conditions
Skills Required:
• Hands on, dynamic professional with great attention to detail
• Solutions and Results driven, striving for success and continuous improvement
• Flexible, can do attitude
• Change management facilitator and driver
• Prioritisation, multi tasking and ablity to work effectively under pressure
• Excellent communication skills (regular verbal, written, presentation reports up to Director Level)
• Effective negotiator and supplier account management
• Understands UK and EU Custom requirements
• Experience of International trading
• Intermediate/advanced Excel
Education: Degree educated
CIPS - Ideally Required
Experience Required: Minimum of 5 years purchasing and supply