At a Glance
- Tasks: Manage stock for food categories and ensure optimal customer experience.
- Company: Join Brakes, a leading foodservice business with a dynamic team.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, annual bonus, generous holidays, and hybrid working.
- Other info: Enjoy discounts on food, cinema tickets, and great career progression opportunities.
- Why this job: Be part of a fast-paced environment and make a real impact on supply chain efficiency.
- Qualifications: Experience in FMCG, excellent communication skills, and knowledge of SAP systems.
The predicted salary is between 33750 - 41250 £ per year.
Brakes have an opportunity for a Supply Planner to join the Product Supply team on a full time, permanent basis. The role is based at our Ashford office and reports to the Supply Manager. It will be your responsibility to manage stock and its availability for a specific group of food categories (SKUs) to ensure achievement of the pre-determined company targets, whilst working closely with internal teams to ensure we are providing an optimum customer experience.
Our role is offering hybrid working with 3 days a week in the Ashford office after the initial training period, so you must be within a commutable distance. The site has good transport links and free car park for colleagues. The hours for this role are Monday-Friday 39 hours per week, 8am 5pm, (this includes working bank holidays), and there is a requirement to cover a Sunday on a rota basis, (usually 1 in 4). You will receive time in lieu for working bank holidays.
Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities:
- Process internal and external purchase orders in line with requirements of specific ERP platforms.
- Maintaining company owned stock and end-to-end service levels.
- Taking a leading role in developing and maintaining internal and external relationships.
- Report on issues that may impact KPIs.
- Report on supplier performance levels and stock holding/stock values.
- Build long term solutions to resolve issues in your SKU group.
- Evaluate and take necessary action for several pre-generated reports.
- Achieve set KPIs on customer availability at point of order (FTA) and availability at point of delivery (DSL).
- Ensure waste is kept to a minimum and within business targets.
- Work closely with a portfolio of external suppliers.
- Attend supply meetings where necessary.
About you:
The successful candidate will be a confident individual who is people-oriented and can thrive in a fast-paced, demanding, and pressurised environment, so experience within an FMCG environment is highly desirable. You'll have excellent customer service and communication skills and enjoy dealing with different levels of people across the business from other departments. You will ideally have a good working knowledge and understanding of SAP systems. As a suitable candidate you will have excellent organisation skills and have the ability to prioritise your workload ensuring all tasks are completed to the highest standards.
What you'll receive:
- A competitive salary
- Annual bonus of up to 10% of salary
- Generous holiday allowance, with option to purchase 5 additional holiday days
- Pension scheme
- Hybrid working contract
- Huge discounts on all sorts of lovely food and award-winning products through our staff shop
- Discounts on Cinema tickets, shopping and earn cashback on purchases through Sodexo.
- Recognition awards and Incentives
- Career progression opportunities - being part of Sysco, the world's leading foodservice business, opens up a world of possibility
Locations
Supply Planner in Ashford, Devon employer: Sysco
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