Dairy Planning Manager in Highbridge

We are looking for a Dairy Planning Manager to join our team at Yeo Valley. You will be expected to deliver a key operational leadership role in the Planning Team and use your expertise and leadership skills to lead and develop a team of dedicated experts. Leading the Dairy Planning team, you are responsible for ensuring the optimized delivery and cost-effective utilization of our portfolio of dairy materials across all our manufacturing operations. Your key role in enabling our commitment to Nature Positive farming through the operational delivery of our dedicated milk pools will be a significant contributor to Impacts strategy. You will optimize our investment in new technologies through the most effective use of our dairy supply contracts and materials utilization at our operational sites.

Your responsibilities:

• Provide guidance and leadership that ensure sufficient dairy and base raw materials are available to meet our operational requirements.
• Effective liaison with suppliers to manage the provision and operational balancing of liquid raw materials to support and optimise the production plans.
• Responsibility for managing forecasting dairy requirements from and to Suppliers.
• Managing change driven by new systems.
• Provide a pivotal advisory role in procurement strategies and contracting of liquid dairy ingredients.
• Optimise the use of planning systems to maximise the cost effectiveness of our dairy supply chain.
• Build excellent relationships with our dairy and base raw material suppliers.
• Provide the key operational contact and represent the business in supplier reviews and meetings.
• Build and maintain excellent relationships, confidence and trust with internal teams to create shared understanding and effective solutions.
• Provide out of hours cover for dairy materials.

What good looks like for this role:

• Humble, high performing leadership.
• Excellent understanding of stock management disciplines preferably within an FMCG environment.
• Good problem-solving skills.
• Ability to analyse data and provide insights for improvements/enhancements.
• Adapts to changing circumstances.
• Able to work as part of a team, upholds the ethics and values of the business and demonstrates integrity.
• Makes a positive personal impression on others, collaborates, shares ideas and best practice to drive continuous improvement.
• Demonstrates an interest in others, adapts to the team and builds team spirit, recognises and rewards the contribution of others.
• Listens, consults and communicates proactively.
• Makes good use of available time to ensure all tasks are completed as required.

Essential:

• Experience in a FMCG business & stock order management.
• Project management and change management experience.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Excellent IT skills & MS Office skills.
• Excellent numeracy & literacy skills.
• Effective time management skills.

Desirable:

• Degree qualified in relevant discipline preferred.
• Experience of stock management in a dairy.
• Understanding of Power BI.
• CIPS Qualification.

Why should I join the family? We are independent, British and proud to be making the highest quality yogurts, desserts and ice cream under the Yeo Valley brand and for many of the UK’s major retailers. Operating from four dairies and two logistics centres in Somerset and Devon, we employ over 1,700 staff and produce more than 25% of the UK’s packaged yogurt. We offer a whole host of benefits including:

• Competitive holiday allowance.
• Non-contributory pension scheme.
• Life cover.
• Healthcare cash back plan.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Subsidised Yeo Valley products and services.
• Preferential rates with our partners.
• Learning and development opportunities; we’re committed to ensuring all of our employees have the chance to grow.

Our closing dates are a guide for when the application window should close, although we may close the advert sooner if we can. So, we recommend you get your application in straight away – and don’t miss the opportunity to join us! Unfortunately, we’re not able to provide employment sponsorship to candidates at this moment in time. Please note that Yeo Valley do not accept speculative agency applications; we will only accept applications from preferred suppliers that have been submitted to us via our recruitment portal at the point of instruction.