Materials Scheduler

The HEINEKEN Company; Tadcaster; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Private medical healthcare

Pension contributions (double match)

35 days holiday (buy/sell)

Case of cider/beer monthly

Career development opportunities

Job summary

The HEINEKEN Company is seeking a Materials Scheduler at the Tadcaster Brewery. You will report to the Site Scheduling Manager and support the scheduling team to provide a comprehensive production planning service for cider, Process, and Packaging lines.

Role focuses on optimizing material availability, storage space, and working capital while aligning with procurement criteria and schedule targets. Some flexibility and collaboration across functions are required.

Qualifications

• Advanced spreadsheet skills.
• Experience with INFOR AS and SAP APO.
• Experience in Liquid Planning, manufacturing, or supply chain operations.

Responsibilities

• Schedule production material deliveries to meet supplier lead-times and procurement criteria.
• Collaborate with scheduling team to hit Conformance to Schedule targets.
• Balance material availability, storage space, and working capital to optimise production.

Skills

Advanced spreadsheet skills

INFOR AS

SAP APO

Liquid Planning

Supply chain operations

Tools

INFOR AS

SAP APO

Job description

Salary: £30,000 - £32,000 depending on experience, plus annual bonus and benefits listed below

Function: Supply Chain – Customer Service, Logistics & Planning

Location: Tadcaster Brewery

Contract: Permanent

Latest closing date: 21st January 2026.

Are you looking for your next chapter? We're looking for people to help us evolve for the future as well as evolving yours! If you're ready to brew a better career, apply for your new internal permanent opportunity today as a Materials Scheduler.

About The Role

As the Materials Scheduler, you will be reporting to the Site Scheduling Manager and supporting the Scheduling team to deliver a comprehensive production planning service. This means relying on your experience of scheduling production material deliveries for Cider production (preferably), Process and Packaging in a manner that meets supplier order lead-times, HEINEKEN Procurement criteria and allows dependent production activity to hit or exceed Heineken's Conformance to Schedule targets

It is all about you and the scheduling team hitting the 'sweet spot' between material availability, storage space, and working capital value.

With our Heineken Behaviours as your guidelines, we'd love you to take our very complex supply planning process and use your analytical and problem-solving skills to \"Keep It Simple\"! This means constantly managing information flows with stakeholders, using your listening, and communications skills to build strong relationships across functions. These relationships will result in more open conversations when we are all under pressure, allowing you to be an effective key driver in the scheduling process.

At Heineken we promote and support Smarter Working, in this role there is some flexibility required to meet the needs of the various departments it supports.

Who We're Looking For

We are always looking to build on our processes and bringing the outside in! We are looking for someone with advanced spreadsheet skills and experience in using INFOR AS & SAP (APO). Previous experience in Liquid Planning, Manufacturing and or Supply Chain Operations (e.g. Purchasing, Technical or Logistics) would be beneficial, especially within a similar complex supply chain environment.

Our Benefits

In addition to your base salary, you'll also receive:

• Annual bonus
• Company funded Private Medical Healthcare
• Double matched pension contributions (up to 10%)
• 35 days holiday (with the opportunity to buy/sell)
• A monthly case of our delicious ciders and beers!
• Exciting opportunities to develop your career

You'll also get the opportunity to get involved with one of our colleague networks where groups of colleagues from all over the business work together to ensure we're always working towards being a diverse and inclusive company.

If you need any adjustments made to support your application, for example if you require information in different formats, or if you have any accessibility issues, then we're more than happy to review our processes – please feel free to get in touch with us as [email protected].

In all likelihood the ideal candidate for this role won't meet every single requirement in this advert, in fact we all need the opportunity to grow and develop in role. We understand some applicants are less likely to apply to jobs unless they feel they meet every single qualification. The team at HEINEKEN would encourage you to submit an application if the advert has piqued your interest rather than ruling yourself out based on any self-limiting beliefs. You never know, you may be exactly what we're looking for!

We've 150 years of brewing history and are proud of this legacy. Yet we're sure our best days are ahead of us. Every one of our colleagues has a role to play as we dream big, set bold ambitions and push the boundaries. We support colleagues on this journey with development opportunities and unique experiences to help them reach their full potential.