Demand Planner

The Rewards and Benefits on Offer:

• A full-time and permanent opportunity
• A role within a technologically driven and forward-thinking manufacturing facility.
• Immediate Starts available
• Progression and Development opportunities
• A competitive basic salary
• Company pension
• Free onsite parking
• Generous Holiday Entitlement

MTrec’s New Job Opportunity:

MTrec Technical are representing our well-established and forward-thinking manufacturing client in their search for a dedicated and passionate Demand Planner. This role will be responsible for ensuring the smooth flow of production through methodical and strategic planning, within a busy and fast-moving environment.

If you meet the person specification below, apply now for an immediate response.

The Job You Will Do:

• Responsible for the issuing of production plans on a day-to-day basis for the production lines.
• Review, analyse and adapt customer forecasts to the business's production plan.
• Support the Demand Lead in the strategic review of the production requirements, identifying potential challenges.
• Review short-term customer forecasting.
• Attend and support in weekly customer meetings from a planning perspective.
• Attending daily production meetings, liaising with key stakeholders from across internal business areas
• Leading weekly production meetings, liaising with key stakeholders from across internal business areas.
• Review, communicate and report on production plan movements, across all relevant stakeholders.
• Review feasibility and communicate any movements within the firm period with both customers and internal departments.
• Working with the Demand Lead to support both customer and business requirements.
• Build good work relationships with customers and other cross-functional team members.
• Ensure accurate parameters are reflected in SAP and regularly reviewed to achieve optimum materials inventory holding within the network
• Ensure production plans are accurate and aligned with production parameters for the following 12 weeks. Inclusive of operating hours, quality parameters and engineering requirements.
• Proactively identify slow-moving and obsolete SKU risks, report and follow up by closely working with other functional teams.
• Review existing processes and work closely with the procurement team to improve accuracy and efficiencies, where possible.
• Ensure production requirements are within agreed min/max levels to best service both the customer and logistics.
• To take ownership of customer stock levels and forecasting, regularly updating the other members of the planning team and customer accounts.
• React to issues daily, created both internally and by customers.
• Provide demand planning support for colleagues when required.

About You:

Previous experience within a production or demand planning role is essential.

Good communicator

Strong numeracy skills 

A team player

Positive outlook & calm under pressure

Ambitious and wanting to build a career in a growing business 

Analytical mindset