Material Planner

New Appointments Group; Peterborough; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking an experienced Material Planner for a 9-month temporary role in Peterborough. Your main responsibilities include managing materials plans, conducting supply and demand reviews, and ensuring timely product availability through effective communication with various teams. Applicants should have 3-5 years of experience in materials planning or related fields and have strong skills in utilizing planning systems and tools. This is a hybrid position with 37.5 hours per week.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of relevant work experience in materials planning or related fields.
• Significant relevant work experience or specialised skills in production scheduling.
• Strong communication skills to interact with various teams.

Responsibilities

• Review materials planning panels daily to ensure supply aligns with demand.
• Release new purchase orders to ensure product availability.
• Manage change requests for purchase orders to improve lead times.
• Provide accurate information to order management teams.

Skills

Materials planning

Production scheduling

Inventory control

Excel

Communication

Tools

TOAD

Access

OMS

Job description

We have a requirement for an experienced Material Planner to work on a 9 month temporary basis for our Engineering and Manufacturing client based in Peterborough.

Responsibilities

• Daily review of materials planning panels to ensure supply is aligned with demand.
• Release of new whole goods purchase orders to ensure products will be available in time.
• Review of supplier order boards and update planning systems with relevant data.
• Manage change requests for purchase orders and re‑schedule to meet better lead time.
• Provide accurate information to Customer order management teams so they can align planning dates.
• Frequently join end‑to‑end planning team meetings to review open order boards.
• Maintain good communication with plant account teams to ensure the company are provided with accurate lead time information.

You will use the materials planning system to manage supply and demand plans, taking long‑term corrective action on exception messages and other alerts based on root cause analysis; occasionally referring to adhoc tools such as Excel, Access, TOAD, OMS, etc. to perform problem solving, while leveraging the materials planning system as the primary tool in day‑to‑day operations.

It is essential that you have significant relevant work experience or specialised skills obtained through education, training, or on‑the‑job experience in an equivalent field such as materials planning, production scheduling, manufacturing, or inventory control with 3‑5 years of relevant work experience required.

You will be working 37.5 hours per week and this will be a hybrid role with some home working.

We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment in line with the Equality Act 2010. All qualified applicants will be considered regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation. New Appointments Group acts as an Employment Agency for permanent roles and as an Employment Business for temporary roles.