Head of Planning - Nottingham

The Company

Our client is a fast moving, high risk food manufacturer in the Derby area. A business that is set to go through quite a significant amount of transformation over the coming few years and they are looking for a Head of Planning to help take the company through that change along the way.

The Role

The effective day-to-day co-ordination of sales, forecasts, stocks, meat and materials supply and capacities to achieve a production plan that achieves and maintains agreed stock levels and customer service

• Work in close partnership with sales, customers and operations to provide a daily and weekly production plan that maximises factory efficiency
• Build long term plans based around customer insight, promotional plans and operational capacity for both production, labour/resourcing and raw material sourcing
• Provide a daily and weekly raw material plan that minimizes costs and stock-holding and delivers customer orders on time and in full.
• Responsible for the management of stock holding and write offs.
• Lead the weekly S&OPs meeting in relation to launches, delists and promotions

• Experience of building production plans with products with short shelf life/seasonal products and requiring intensive labour usage
• Proven experience of successfully managing a team in a fast paced, high pressure environment
• Ability to clearly communicate and build a strong and effective team
• Excellent planning and organisational skills
• Ability to problem solve and make effective decisions in fluid and changing situations
• Self-motivated and highly resilient
• High level of IT skills including advanced Excel skills
• FMCG experience
• High level of numeracy to be able to calculate and report on performance