Inventory Support Planner

Location: This is a hybrid role, offering a combination of being able to work remotely and from our Corby office.

Contract Type: This role is a part time position, 18.75 hours, ideally Monday, Tuesday and Permanent.

The Opportunity: Supporting Inventory Planners by maintaining accurate data in SAP and Blue Yonder to enable effective demand and supply planning. Managing purchase orders, inbox queries and supply plans to align with inventory strategies. Contributing to stock optimisation, process improvement and ROI through collaborative working.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Providing administrative support to the Inventory Planning Team to ensure the Blue Yonder planning tool has accurate information to plan against.
• Managing an email inbox, actioning, and responding to various queries.
• Manage Purchase Order Book to ensure it meets Demand Forecast including expediting and rescheduling.
• Proactively seek to continuously improve processes.
• Managing Supply Plan in line with Category and Cell Inventory Strategies with updating SAP/Blue Yonder with correct information.
• Adhere to the RS Ways of Working: We are One Team, Delivering Brilliantly, Doing the Right Thing to make Every Day Better.
• Optimise Return on Investment (ROI) through cross-functional improvement initiatives, implementation of established industry best practices and employing a Total Cost of Ownership approach.
• Support Inventory Control in mitigating Excess inventory whilst keeping within Category and Cell Stocking Policies.

Future Key Accountabilities:

• Work in conjunction with Supply Chain Services Manager on continuously improving the KPIs for the defined cell.
• Resolve queries regarding product deliveries, working closely with Operations.
• Support Buying teams in improving or maintaining vendor performance and identifying cost reductions.
• Work closely with Demand Planning to ensure Supply Plan meets customer requirements.
• Be key interface for relevant vendor Supply Plan enquiries for both external (vendors) and internal stakeholders such as IC, Demand Planning, Product, and Operations.
• Supporting and managing Services team functions.

What You’ll Bring:

• Ability to demonstrate customer-oriented thinking.
• Ability to challenge status quo and drive for high performance.
• Ability to operate within a global organisation and to demonstrate cultural awareness.
• Ability to work in a high-pressure environment.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• MS Excel proficient.
• Diversity and inclusiveness aware.
• Fluent in English language.
• Open, honest & trustworthy.
• Good challenging, collaboration and influencing skills.

Ready to Make Amazing Happen?

We Are RS: At RS, we are making amazing happen for a better world. As a global product and service solutions provider, we help industrial customers operate more efficiently and sustainably. Operating in 33 markets, we support around one million customers worldwide with more than 875,000 stocked products, access to over five million additional products, and a range of service solutions designed to help businesses thrive.

What sets us apart is our people. More than 8,500 colleagues around the world bring technical expertise, digital innovation, and a customer first mindset to everything we do. Guided by our values – We are one team, We deliver brilliantly, We do the right thing, and We make every day better, we're creating an environment where our people can grow, contribute and make a meaningful impact.

Join us and help make amazing happen.

Rewards: Our Reward Strategy Philosophy is designed to offer market competitive base salaries and provide all of our people the opportunity to participate in a short-term incentive, enabling them to share in the success of the Company. Our total reward package is more than just the cash; our recognition and benefit offering provide the opportunity for us to recognise, reward and enable the wellbeing of our people at all stages of their journey with RS. Our rewards and benefits vary by country, but include:

• Financial - pension/retirement; life assurance; salary finance (payroll deduction loan scheme).
• Wellbeing - medical plans; health screening; critical illness; disability insurance; holiday / paid time off; employee assistance programme; discounted gym/health club membership.
• Lifestyle - transportation assistance schemes (e.g., cycle to work, travel loans, car leasing); onsite catering/lunch vouchers; retail discounts.
• Spotlight – our global recognition programme provides a platform to highlight and recognise people role modelling our values.

Ready to Make Amazing Happen? Join over 8,500 colleagues and help us shape the future of our industry. Whoever you are, wherever you are — it all starts here. Apply now and make RS a part of your journey.