Production Materials Planner

Role: Production Materials Planner

Salary: Up To £35,000

Hours: 40 hours per week

Shift Pattern: Monday to Friday

Contract: Fixed Term (12 months)

Inspired Global Cuisine (IGC)

Inspired Global Cuisine are a frozen ready meal manufacturer based in Gorton, East Manchester.

We are an ambitious company who have grown significantly over the last 2 years, now producing over 1million meals a week and have plans to continue that growth.

We believe in manufacturing excellence – delivered by our brilliant people, innovative products and continuous improvement. We achieve this by working within our core values of being accountable, creative, open and as a team.

We have high standards and encourage our colleagues to be autonomous and authentic to drive our business forward. With a supportive environment we encourage personal and professional development too.

You’ll work cross functionally and collaboratively, always strive to be the best and even have some fun along the way.

About the role

We are seeking a Materials Planner to join our dynamic team on a fixed term contract. The Materials Planner will be responsible for planning and ordering from a short-term perspective (+6 weeks). Support Buying on procurement requirements, forward planning, developing relationships with Suppliers to manage call off’s and to deliver a reduction in working capital. Managing the delivery of new materials aligned to NPD plan, ensuring launch requirements are met and waste risks are managed accordingly.

Key responsibilities:

• Work with short term materials planner to ensure stock holding aligned to budget requirements.
• Working collaboratively across the Supply Chain function, wider teams within IGC and a range of suppliers.
• Collaborate with Purchasing on challenging MOQ’s/Lead times/Prices and update the system.
• Ensure delivery of NPD lines – all materials are set up, requirements known and orders placed.
• Ensure alignment of NPD meetings and plan integration.
• Processing purchase orders (PO’s) relating to long-term raw materials including handling quantity invoice queries and receipting PO’s.
• Managing delisted products including stock exposure and finished goods requirements using the delist form.

Qualifications and Experience:

Required – Proven experience of materials management and working within a Supply Chain role

Required – Experience of using multiple systems such as Microsoft Navision, Microsoft Excel and various others Supply Chain based systems

Desirable – Food manufacturing experience

Desirable – commercial awareness gained from previous role(s)

So, if you feel like this is the role for you, and have the experience required, please get in touch by applying now and sending over your CV.