Graduate Supply Chain Planner

Parkside Recruitment; Langley; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a Supply Chain Planner in Langley, UK. This role will involve managing daily customer orders, ensuring stock availability, and maintaining strong communication with both customers and internal teams. The ideal candidate will have a background in Customer Service and Supply Chain, and be proficient in Excel and SAP. This position offers a hybrid working model with opportunities for development and progression.

Qualifications

• Experience within Customer Service and Supply Chain.
• Strong computer literacy, particularly in Excel and SAP.
• Ability to embrace ownership and responsibility.

Responsibilities

• Manage daily orders for customers and monitor the order book.
• Ensure timely stock arrivals and notify customers of any delays.
• Coordinate direct deliveries from European partners.
• Support the market demand planner and check customer forecast accuracy.

Skills

Effective communication

Customer focus

Excel proficiency

SAP knowledge

Job description

Overview

I am exclusively partnering with a global and leading Client within the FMCG industry who are looking for a Supply Chain Planner. The role will be focused on delivering outstanding Customer Service a long with order Management, ensuring stock and inventory levels are Monitored, coordinating deliveries and ensuring Service level agreements are being achieved.

The ideal person will have experience within Customer Service and Supply Chain and have a good working knowledge of Excel, SAP or similar CRM systems,

This is an amazing opportunity for someone who is looking for a company who will offer development and progression within a forward thinking and exciting industry

PLEASE ONLY APPLY IF YOU LIVE IN THE UK - THIS ROLE DOES NOT OFFER SPONSORSHIP

Hybrid working 3 days a week in the office.

Responsibilities

• Manage and place daily orders for customer, monitor customer order book and release Stock as it becomes available
• Make sure that Stock arrive on time and in full notifying the customer of any deviations from their agreed delivery schedule or quantity
• Ensure customer delivery schedule does not exceed volume set by the operations team
• Co-ordinate direct deliveries from our European Partners to customer(s) Stock Management
• Ensure there is sufficient stock based on customer forward orders and or forecast by utilising the replenishment report highlighting any stock challenges
• Work with stock analyst to ensure the phase in phase out of stock by placing orders on correct stock lines to ensure we use our discontinued or stopping articles first
• Look at opportunities to share stock where possible to fulfil customer orders
• Work with stock analyst to identify overstocks and find the root cause of these
• Overstocks created by customer FC inaccuracies to be highlighted to the customer and monitored
• Highlight slow moving stock to customer FC/Order Checks
• Check FC/Order book provided by the customer, make sure that the relevant current articles are being forecasted/on order
• Check that all orders processed are correct after processing.
• Support market demand planner
• Check customer FC accuracy / forward order fill rate

Skills & Qualifications

• The ability to communicate effectively both internally and externally
• You should demonstrate a strong customer focus, a good level of computer literacy, particularly Excel and SAP.
• A motivated self-starter, willing to embrace ownership and responsibility for delivering supply chain support to your customer(s).
• Communicates openly and adapts to change