Materials Planner

• Materials Planner
• Duration: 6 months +
• Rate: £250 - £350 p/d (inside IR35)
• Location: Remote working – initially 3 days in Chorley/Camberley office for first 2 weeks training

Our client is a leading engineering company who specialise in Asset Management within Traffic/Highways.

They currently require a Materials Planner to join their business and ensure the end-to-end management of spares ordering and supplier management for their Traffic Management business.

This is a critical area of the maintenance organisation to enable the business to meet the customer demands for Traffic Management.

Key Deliverables

• Support with resolving supplier payment queries
• Support investigations of supplier performance failures and work with SQA team to find resolutions
• Responsible for identification of continuous improvement opportunities
• Support the creation and production of procurement reports and departmental metrics

Responsibilities

• Management of data to assess Supplier delivery performance.
• On-going maintenance of MRP in line with materials replenishment strategy.
• Management of project demands and forecasting and OTIF.
• Support appropriate business reviews based upon Supplier Classification (Key suppliers) Pan Telent.
• Every member of Central Procurement to complete or participate in a min. of one Continuous Improvement project - as logged into central CI Tracker.
• Correct supply chain information implemented into Oracle
• Compliance to internal, external & customer audit.
• Achieve adherence to supplier on-boarding process.
• Responsible for management of internal and external stakeholders
• Support delivery of corporate and functional strategic priorities

Qualifications / Skill Requirements

Experience in a procurement, supply chain or commercial environment

• Experience in Material management/stock control, supply chain, stock management within a manufacturing environment
• Strong interpersonal, organisational and communication skills
• Understanding of procurement principles, practices and the value that Procurement can bring
• A high attention to detail and ability to achieve high levels of data accuracy
• Confidence and ability to handle large volumes of data from different sources
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to demonstrate exceptional stakeholder management approach and skills
• Effective prioritisation of workload
• Experience of Microsoft Office 365 products especially MS Excel
• SAP/Oracle experience (desirable)

For more information, please contact Scarlet Wilson.