Supply Planner

Joseph Joseph Ltd; London; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global houseware brand, Joseph Joseph Ltd is seeking an experienced Supply Planner to join their team in London. The role involves managing supply plans, liaising with suppliers across the Far East, and ensuring product availability. Candidates should have strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and previous experience in supply chain operations.

Benefits

Competitive salary and holiday allowance

Company performance related bonus

Hybrid working

External private employee wellbeing support

Access to Perkbox

Training and Development

Season-ticket travel loan

Cycle to work scheme

Parental Leave support

Holiday trading for long service

Qualifications

• Previous experience in supply planning or procurement role required.
• High degree of numeracy and analytical skills needed.
• Ability to speak Chinese Mandarin is highly valuable.

Responsibilities

• Creating robust supply plans and managing production flow.
• Liaising with suppliers for production and delivery timings.
• Implementing inventory management strategies.

Skills

Organised

Attention to detail

Numeracy

Analytical skills

Problem-solving

Communication

Education

Experience in supply chain or procurement

Advanced Excel

S&OP experience

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At Joseph Joseph we love solving everyday problems through intelligent design to create distinctive, functional products that are a pleasure to own and use. We are one of the world’s leading houseware brands with a global presence spanning over 100 countries, available in most major department stores and independent houseware stores worldwide as well as our rapidly growing ecommerce channel.

We are looking for an experienced Supply Planner to join the Supply Planning Team. As one of our Supply Planners you will be responsible for creating a robust supply plan and managing the production flow from our Far East supply base as well as working cross functionally with the wider business to deliver targets. With the bulk of manufacturing taking place in China the company distributes through 6 main warehouses worldwide to retailer customers, distributors and direct to consumers.

What you will be doing:

• Raising purchase orders and liaising with suppliers about production and delivery timings, advancing or delaying orders to support sales trends and forecasts
• Order placement to factories for regular replenishment, FOB and new product launches
• Order placement for components and consumables
• Manage and communicate purchase forecasts to factories
• Reviewing out of stock situations or supply issues and recommend mitigating actions
• Planning container loading with suppliers to ensure effective delivery of stock
• Producing supplier and business KPI's for management
• Implement and maintain inventory and material management strategies for all finished goods by reviewing weekly purchase order tracking
• Single point of contact for a range of factories including daily communication, performance tracking, relationship management (including regular phone conferences), development of ways of working to reduce lead-times.
• Ownership of the following KPI’s: Supplier performance, availability, PO tracking
• Supporting the S&OP process by communicating overstocks and blocked stock at factories that needs to be addressed and addressing capacity constraints before they become an issue
• Delivering excellent product availability to the Demand Planner forecast

What we need from you:

• Previous experience in a similar operations/supply planning/procurement/supply chain role
• Organised, methodical and a close attention to detail
• High degree of numeracy and analysis
• Is committed to deliver results, goes after the stretch target
• Takes advantage of processes and work systems, follows them with discipline
• Escalates issues before they become problems
• Advanced Excel user
• Experience of S&OP
• Ability to speak Chinese Mandarin
• Experience of working with Suppliers in Far East
• Knowledge of injection moulding and metal forming manufacturing processes
• Fully proficient in standard IT packages
• Experience with Project Management

What you will get from us:

• Competitive salary and holiday allowance
• Company performance related bonus
• Hybrid working – 3 days in office & 2 days from home and flex start/finish times
• External private employee wellbeing support
• Access to Perkbox
• Training and Development
• Season-ticket travel loan
• Cycle to work scheme
• Parental Leave support
• Holiday trading (buy/sell) and extra holiday days for long service

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Associate

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Supply Chain

• Industries

  Retail and Wholesale

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