Planning & Inventory Manager

ZipRecruiter; East Leake; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction materials company is seeking a Planning and Inventory Manager in East Leake. This role focuses on optimizing production planning, managing material supply, and ensuring inventory accuracy. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in inventory planning, knowledge of ERP systems like SAP, and excellent communication skills. Flexible working arrangements are available to meet personal needs.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in production and inventory planning, particularly in a fast-moving manufacturing environment.
• In-depth knowledge of material procurement, stock control, and scheduling.
• A keen eye for process improvement.

Responsibilities

• Lead the production and inventory planning function, ensuring product availability while optimising stock levels.
• Manage inbound raw material supply, ensuring alignment with production needs.
• Drive continuous improvement in Inventory Accuracy, Production Schedule Adherence, and Supplier Delivery Performance.

Skills

Production and inventory planning

Material procurement

SAP APO or ERP/MRP systems

Process improvement

Excellent communication skills

Tools

SAP

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Job Description

British Gypsum is seeking a strategic and operations-focused Planning and Inventory Manager to optimise production planning, material supply, and inventory management. This role is essential in ensuring seamless supply chain operations, balancing customer demand with production efficiency while maintaining stock accuracy.

British Gypsum, part of Saint-Gobain UK & Ireland, is a market leader in innovative building materials, offering high-performance solutions for the construction industry.

Leading a team of 3, this site-based role is located at our East Leake plant, where you’ll play a crucial part in aligning planning and logistics with production capabilities.

What We’re Looking For

We’re looking for a strategic and detail-oriented Planning and Inventory Manager who can enhance supply chain efficiency, ensure stock accuracy, and drive continuous improvement in a fast-moving manufacturing environment.

• Strong experience in production and inventory planning, particularly in a fast-moving manufacturing environment.
• In-depth knowledge of material procurement, stock control, and scheduling.
• Proficiency in SAP APO or other ERP/MRP systems, with strong IT skills, particularly in Microsoft Excel.
• A keen eye for process improvement, ensuring efficiency in supply, production scheduling, and stock accuracy.
• Excellent communication skills, able to collaborate with plant personnel, central supply chain teams, suppliers, and other British Gypsum sites.

What You’ll Be Doing

As a key member of the site team, you will manage the production plan, material supply, and inventory levels to meet customer demand while ensuring operational efficiency and stock accuracy.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the production and inventory planning function, ensuring product availability while optimising stock levels.
• Manage the inbound raw material supply, ensuring alignment with production needs.
• Fully utilise SAP, maintaining accurate transactional and master data.
• Coordinate planning activities with central supply chain, production, and engineering maintenance teams to ensure material availability.
• Drive continuous improvement in key metrics such as Inventory Accuracy, Production Schedule Adherence, and Supplier Delivery Performance, using World Class Manufacturing (WCM) methodologies.
• Ensure compliance with business controls, developing and refining processes where necessary.
• Play a key role in the WCM Customer Focus Pillar team, identifying and addressing areas of inefficiency to enhance customer service and charter performance.
• Use data insights to identify and implement improvements across the supply chain, enhancing the on-site and extended value chain to support product leadership.

Are British Gypsum and Saint-Gobain inclusive employers?

Saint-Gobain is the worldwide leader in light and sustainable construction improving daily life through high-performance solutions. From wherever you are, let your unique personality and our values guide you every day to invent a more sustainable world.

We understand that a diverse workplace is not only a more enjoyable place to be, but also facilitates better decision making and innovation. So, whoever you are, and whichever Saint-Gobain business you join, you can be sure of a warm welcome with us.

And what about flexibility?

The world of work is changing. At Saint-Gobain, we’re always open to new ways of working. Everyone has different needs and commitments. We’ll happily discuss any need you might have for this role: flexible hours, job-sharing, part-time working, or anything else that matters to you. We can’t promise to meet every request when we’re recruiting. But we do promise to listen.

If you match our criteria, we will be in touch to discuss your experience and more about you as a person, we look forward to hearing from you!