Production Planner

Hozelock; Sutton Coldfield; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A well-known gardening products company is seeking a Production Planner to join their team in Sutton Coldfield. This full-time position involves managing stocks, generating capacity plans, and ensuring customer requirements are met. The ideal candidate will have at least 5 years' experience in production planning within an FMCG environment and mastery of SAP. Strong analytical and communication skills are essential, along with the ability to work both autonomously and collaboratively. Join a dynamic team committed to innovation and quality.

Qualifications

• Highly experienced in SAP production planning with 5 years' experience.
• Ability to work autonomously and within a team.
• Experience in FMCG environment preferred.

Responsibilities

• Plan and maintain stocks for assigned areas.
• Generate capacity plans for bottleneck assembly operations.
• Attend meetings with customers to ensure targets are met.

Skills

SAP expertise in production planning

Analytical skills

Intermediate Excel skills

Strong communication skills

Ability to learn and interpret numerical information

Ability to proactively identify improvements

Tools

SAP

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Position: Production Planner

Hours: Full time

Contract: Permanent

Salary: Competitive

About us

At Hozelock, we've been helping people nurture their gardens for generations. From innovative watering solutions to trusted gardening tools, our products are designed to make growing easier, more enjoyable, and more sustainable. But behind every great product is a great team. We're a company that values curiosity, craftsmanship and collaboration, where ideas are encouraged, expertise is shared, and people are empowered to make a real impact. If you're passionate about quality, innovation and being part of a business with a proud heritage and an exciting future, Hozelock could be the place for you.

We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Production Planner to join our planning team on a full time, permanent basis.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Plan and maintain stocks for all assigned areas.
• Achieve all customer requirements.
• Achieve stock targets.
• Generate capacity plans for specific bottleneck assembly operations to identify potential problem areas to obtain resolution with manufacturing managers.
• Run and satisfy daily arrears.
• Each morning ensures the overdue commitment plan is run and the actions/dates of agreed build are provided to the Planning Manager and Sales Administration Manager.
• Attend meetings with customers as required to better understand their needs to ensure all targets are met.
• Attend weekly Plan Conformance Review Meeting with the Planning Team to confirm whether all targets have been met and/or identify any issues if the target were not reached.
• Attend daily Planning meeting alongside the Production Managers, Senior Team Coordinators to confirm production plans for the day have been met and/or if not, how the issues can be resolved.
• Run weekly action message reports for the following week, identify and agree suitable plans for that week with the Planning Manager.
• Attend weekly Sign Off meetings with the Productions Managers and Senior Team Coordinators to confirm factory manning for the following week.
• Comply with Health and Safety responsibilities as defined in the Company Health and Safety policy, and ensure these are adequately delegated in the absence of the job holder.

What are we looking for?

• Highly Experienced in SAP within production planning, creating production orders, production line planning using customer orders and forecast information.
• Numerate and excellent analytical skills.
• IT literate with ability to learn new software packages.
• Intermediate Excel skills.
• Ability to learn and interpret large quantities of numerical information.
• Ability to work within a team and autonomously without short interval supervision.
• Ability to make fact-based decisions.
• Ability to build and manage cross functional relationships with all departments in the business to ensure excellent internal communications.
• Strong communication skills.
• Ability to use PowerPoint would be advantageous.
• Ability to proactively identify and implement improvements to any business process through change management.
• Tenacity in response to conflicting prioritisation requests from different departments.

Experience criteria

• Experience of working with SAP.
• Working in a FMCG environment.
• 5 years' experience in an operational environment.
• 5 years' experience in production Planning/supplier scheduling.
• Extensive knowledge of Supply Chain/Manufacturing.