- Oversee the demand and material planning for the business, ensuring the planners are up to speed on growth trajectories
- Co-ordinate customers’ orders into a production schedule, providing communication about order progress to the wider team
- Manage the stock levels efficiently
- Assess existing processes and proactively look for ways in which efficieny and customer satisfaction can be improved
- Manage stakeholder relationships, ensuring the business is in the best place possible in terms of the ability to satisfy the increased demand
- Is an experienced planner, with experience in a busy manufacturing environment
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to build successful stakeholder relationships
- Is analytical and data oriented, can work accurately and understand/ digest large quantities of data and utilise excel to compile reports
- Proactive and innovative mindset, able to propose solutions and alternate ways of working to improve efficiencies within the department
- Has a degree of people management experience and is keen to continue to manage a team, or at the point where they would like to/ and are capable of beginning their management journey