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Sales and Operations Planner
Location: Cannock, West Midlands
Salary: Up to 32.5k
Hours: Mon-Fri
Grafton recruiting are working on behalf of a successful, leading manufacturing business in the Cannock area who are looking for an experienced Operations Planner to join their team.
Duties & responsibilities:
- Play a key role in development and implementation of S&OP rules through understanding business and customer requirements
- Assist in development of ERP system to improve forecast accuracy and S&OP process efficiency
- Work closely with the sales teams to understand customers ordering behaviours and collaborate to drive order accuracy improvement
- Review sales demand, understand the assumptions / trends / constraints and opportunities to generate & communicate the supply plan to key stakeholders
- Analyse sales trends and identify the key drivers of sales for key products
- Identify abnormal demand to prevent downstream issues
- Work closely with the factories to ensure adherence to the build plans and understand any reason for deviation and potential impact to stock and service levels
- Provide scenario plans to evaluate management of constraints and opportunities, show agility in evaluating the impact of change in demand and / or supply and make recommendations
- Monitor and challenge adherence to the sales and production plans
- Publish stock availability data
- Develop and publish score card of the business performance
- Liaise and build strong communication channels with all departments
The perfect candidate will have:
- Experience of S&OP process
- Strong analytical skills
- Must be able to analyse and interpret data to make decisions / recommendations
- Continuous Improvement mind-set, uses a data and evidence approach
- Effective communication & engagement skills
- Good commercial understanding and business acumen
- Understanding of ERP systems, forecasting and capacity planning modules
- Desire to establish good understanding of Customer and Supplier relationships
- Experience within a manufacturing background
Further details include:
- Full time, permanent role with hybrid working options
- Competitive salary
- Digicare+ Provided by Aviva
- 10% matched pension, administered by Legal and General
If you meet the above criteria, please apply directly by clicking the link or contact Chloe Sims on (phone number removed) / with your CV.
