Supply Planner

About the role

We are currently recruiting for a Supply Planner at our Sweet & Fruit Ingredients manufacturing site in Tenbury Wells. The facility produces a range of fruit preparations including preserves, fillings, fruit sauces and toppings as well as chocolate, caramel and savoury sauces for yogurt, ice-cream and other dairy product manufacturers, for the baking industry and for foodservice groups.

 

This full-time position is a key supporting role within the Supply Chain Department.

 

The fundamental requirement of the role is to ensure that our capacity is aligned to our customer demand through closely managing our target safety stock levels within our SAP system.  The successful candidate will work closely with various other departments to ensure that our inventory and on-time delivery performance is optimised.

About Kerry

Kerry is the world's leading taste and nutrition company for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries. Every day we partner with customers to create healthier, tastier and more sustainable products that are consumed by billions of people across the world. Our vision is to be our customers' most valued partner, creating a world of sustainable nutrition. A career with Kerry offers you an opportunity to shape the future of food while providing you opportunities to explore and grow in a truly global environment.

What you'll be doing

• This role will take key responsibility for defining the quantities of products produced in line with Kerry inventory policy.
• Managing our available capacity in line with our forecasted demand.
• Capturing and accurately maintaining order information using SAP from order to invoicing.
• Liaising on a daily basis with the operations, warehousing, and quality teams, working towards the common goal of satisfying our customers’ needs as part of the supply chain department.
• Stock management, ensuring lean working capital at all times.
• Reporting various weekly departmental KPI’s, to include OTIF, inventory and stock at risk
• Support the regional and global commercial functions.
• Support the materials team.

What you can bring to the role

• Previous experience within a similar planning role within supply chain, manufacturing, or production environment.
• Diploma or higher in a Business/Supply Chain related subject would be desirable, however not essential.
• The successful candidate will possess the ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.
• Strong computer skills to include Excel (Pivot tables and experience of Macros) and ideally SAP or similar ERP experience.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively in writing and verbal with a variety of internal / external contacts.
• Good numeracy skills with the ability to record, interpret and analyse data.
• You'll love being part of a team player, but equally happy working on your own initiative.

 

In Kerry we know that sometimes the perfect candidate doesn’t exist, and people can be put off applying for a role if they don’t fit all the requirements. If you are excited about working for us and have the majority of the skills or experience, then please do apply as you could be exactly what we are looking for.