Multi-Site Buyer & Planner: Demand, Schedule & Sourcing

ICOMAT; Swindon; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

Pension scheme

Stock options

Career growth opportunities

Innovation-focused culture

Job summary

iCOMAT is expanding its manufacturing capability with a Buyer/Planner role spanning Gloucester and Swindon. You will own material flow, purchases, and the production schedule, ensuring delivery promises are met and capacity is optimised across both sites.

You will coordinate demand, procurement and scheduling with Engineering, Stores and Finance, driving continuous improvement while travelling between sites as needed.

Qualifications

• Proven procurement and supply chain experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Strong working knowledge of ERP / MRP systems. Hands on, not theoretical.
• Solid understanding of manufacturing processes and production planning.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills, and real comfort with data. You will build your own numbers and defend them.
• Accuracy under pressure. A wrong figure in MRP becomes a late part, and a late part becomes a customer call.
• Clear, direct communication with Production, Engineering, Stores, Finance and customers.
• The ability to hold multiple priorities across two sites without losing the thread.
• Willingness to travel regularly between Gloucester and Swindon, and a full UK driving licence.
• A continuous improvement mindset and the appetite to build a broad knowledge of how we manufacture.

Responsibilities

• Demand, capacity and scheduling across Gloucester and Swindon.
• Enter customer sales orders, confirm capacity supports the promised delivery date, and raise alternatives if it does not.
• Own the production schedule for Gloucester and Swindon, sequencing work to optimise equipment, labour and tooling.
• Monitor work centre capacity in MRP and flag capacity gaps.
• Issue the weekly Work to List to Production at each site.
• Generate manufacturing Works Orders from MRP and ensure optimal production methods.
• Raise material purchase orders in the ERP / MRP system to support demand from MRP.
• Review and manage the status of open purchase orders for on-time delivery.
• Evaluate current and future demand across both sites to consolidate volume for best price.
• Ensure non MRP items have correct requisition sign-off before PO raised.
• Select on total value: cost, quality, quantity, delivery and service; lowest cost only if others align.
• Oversee external subcontractors and suppliers on pricing, quality, service, productivity and delivery.
• Work with Engineering on procurement requirements for new product introduction.
• Hold inventory at level to keep line running; recommend min/mid/max levels.
• Own and optimise vendor managed inventory process.
• Plan, execute and reconcile stock cycle counts at both sites.
• Use existing supply chain processes; stay current on activity; keep improvements coming.
• Report on schedule adherence, on-time delivery, stock accuracy and material risk.
• Collaborate across Production, Engineering, Stores, Quality, Finance and Business Development.
• Other duties as the business demands as we scale.

Skills

Procurement experience

Supply chain

Manufacturing planning

Analytical skills

Data-driven decision making

Communication

Multi-site coordination

Driving licence

Travel between sites

Continuous improvement

Tools

SYSPRO

Job description

iCOMAT is expanding its manufacturing capability with a Buyer/Planner role spanning Gloucester and Swindon. You will own material flow, purchases, and the production schedule, ensuring delivery promises are met and capacity is optimised across both sites.

You will coordinate demand, procurement and scheduling with Engineering, Stores and Finance, driving continuous improvement while travelling between sites as needed.