Materials Planner

The Role
Hain Daniels are currently recruiting for a Materials Planner for Histon. In Histon, we manufacture a host of ambient sweetspreads and jellies for our grocery brands. These includes Hartley'sjams and jellies, Gale's honey, Rose's and Robertsons marmalade's.
The role of Materials Planner is to utilise our MRP system to ensure we have sufficient supply of all raw materials and packaging, so that our factories can always run when required and that our costs are managed within Budget. This will primarily be achieved by utilising our M3 system, and there will also be reporting suites integrated with our systems outside of this to maintain such things as performance updates, KPI’s, storage costs.
As part of the Group Supply Chain, the above would be relevant to more than one site. Strong relationships need to be formed with all of our customers, suppliers and colleagues to obtain the most accurate data in terms of supply/demand
*Key Responsibilities:*

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• Able to manage raw materials and packaging requirements, arranging deliveries and call offs from suppliers to ensure timely delivery to site within an agreed stock holding within our MRP system
• Managing materials/packaging changeovers and spot short-term promotional requirements whilst minimising obsolescence. Ensuring change of materials are handled within M3 so that MRP runs smoothly and avoids waste
• Work closely with our Procurement function to ensure long-term supply is controlled. Investigate, resolve and fix root cause of invoice queries for raw materials/packaging procurement
• Reporting all daily/weekly KPI’s and ensuring all master data is current and accurate

What you will need for the role / what it will take:

• A Level – 3 grades above c
• Experience in a Supply Chain based role (FMCG) would be preferred but not essential.
• Advanced excel skills
• Passionate about learning

What can we offer you?

• Competitive salary
• 25 days annual leave, plus 8 Bank Holiday days
• Option to purchase additional annual leave
• A day off work to support our charity partners
• Flexible working options
• Pension
• Medical benefit
• And access to a HUB that offers many discounts from a range of suppliers and retailers

About Us
The Hain Daniels Group is one of the UK's leading food companies. We create food and drink products with natural goodness at their core. We're the business behind a host of household brands - Hartley's jams and jellies, Sun-Pat peanut butters, New Covent Garden Soup Co., Linda McCartney's meat free food, and Yorkshire Provender to name a few. Nearly half of our business is private label - we create quality freshly prepared desserts, soups, sweet spreads and meat free products for our retail partners.
Our Vision
To make it easier for everyone to lead a healthier, balanced lifestyle. Without our great team of people, this vision couldn't be our reality.
Top Talent across the UK
Over our 6 sites up and down the UK, we employ circa 1,300 people in roles within Production, Supply Chain, Product Development, Sales and Marketing, and through to our Finance, HR, IT and beyond. Each of our colleagues is vital to our continued success. That's why we target the best talent, and help to develop them through the ranks. In fact, almost a third of our vacancies were internal promotions and transfers last year.
Our Business behaviours
As a business we strive to promote from within and our underlying business behaviours really enable us to drive this strategic objective. We believe we can provide an opportunity for all individuals to grow and achieve with Hain Daniels through demonstrating core behaviours such as ambition & energy, collaborative working, honest communication, innovation, delivering excellent quality, embracing versatility and equality
If Hain Daniels sounds like the company you'd like to contribute your energy and enthusiasm towards, and come on an exciting journey with us, then we can't wait to hear from you!

Job Type: Permanent