- Develop and implement procurement strategies to ensure the continuous supply of materials.
- Manage supplier relationships, negotiate contracts, evaluate supplier performance
- Researching, monitoring and analysing products, suppliers, and prices, whilst making changes to ensure the competitive supply driving cost efficiency.
- Collaborate with production teams to forecast material needs and create procurement plans.
- Monitor inventory levels and coordinate with the warehouse team to optimise stock levels and reduce excess inventory.
- Developing, building and maintaining work schedules from scratch.
- Forecasting levels of demand.
- Prepare and present reports on procurement activities, costs, and performance metrics.
- Ensure compliance with company policies, industry regulations, and ethical standards.
- Give presentations on market analysis and possible growth.
- Keep up to date with trends and innovations in food production, regulation and new technology that can improve our production methods and lead to higher quality products.
- Develop production schedules and plans through analysing our sales forecast and predicting demand for the factory production plan.
- Monitor production processes, recommending ways to improve efficiency, determine new equipment requirements.
- Support our team leaders to organise operational staff into shifts
- Monitoring material supplies and purchasing against the plan/schedule to make sure we always have the correct raw materials in stock.
- Prepare performance reports regarding performance, delivery and attainment of production plans.
Planning Producrement Manager
Pertemps Milton Keynes
Posted 6 days ago, valid for a month
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire MK10 9QA
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£40,000 - £60,000 per annum
Full Time
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Sonic Summary
- Job Title: Planning and Procurement Manager
- Salary: Not specified
- Experience Required: Minimum of 5 years as a Production Planner
- Location: Milton Keynes
- Responsibilities include developing procurement strategies, managing supplier relationships, forecasting material needs, and monitoring inventory levels.