Supply Planner - Global food brand

The TalentPool Company; Uxbridge; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Supply Planner to enhance their UK operations. This role offers the chance to work within a collaborative supply chain team, ensuring efficient product flow and strong availability. You'll be responsible for leading the supply planning cycle, coordinating with various teams, and analyzing stock levels to optimize replenishment plans. This position promises broad exposure and the opportunity to contribute to a high-performing global brand, making it an exciting step for anyone looking to advance their career in supply chain management.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a supply planning role within FMCG or consumer goods.
• Strong analytical skills to interpret data and identify trends.

Responsibilities

• Lead the weekly supply planning cycle for assigned products.
• Coordinate inbound movements from European production sites.
• Track KPIs and report on planning performance.

Skills

Supply Planning

Analytical Skills

SAP

Excel

Communication

Organizational Skills

Tools

SAP

Excel

Job description

Supply Planner

Full-time | Permanent

£40-50k + bonus

A global food business with a strong footprint across Europe is hiring a Supply Planner to support the delivery of best-in-class service across its UK operations. This role will suit someone with excellent planning capability, a commercial mindset, and confidence managing relationships across internal teams and external partners.

About the Role

Working as part of a collaborative UK supply chain team, you’ll take ownership of planning finished goods across a high-performing product portfolio. You’ll act as a key point of contact between local and European teams, ensuring smooth product flow, strong availability, and readiness for key launches and events.

The role reports into the Supply Chain Manager and includes a mix of planning, coordination, and continuous improvement activity, with regular engagement across Commercial, Demand, Marketing and Operations teams.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead the weekly supply planning cycle for assigned products, ensuring alignment to forecast and service targets
• Coordinate inbound movements from European production sites and 3PL partners
• Provide visibility of upcoming risks, constraints, and capacity issues, working cross-functionally to develop solutions
• Own system accuracy for stock levels, planning parameters and production schedules
• Liaise with warehouse and logistics partners to manage timelines, resolve operational issues, and maintain service standards
• Analyse stockholding, optimise replenishment plans and support inventory reduction where possible
• Contribute to S&OP discussions with planning insights and performance updates
• Track KPIs, reporting on planning performance, cost drivers, and key trends

What You’ll Bring

• Proven experience in a supply planning role within FMCG, food or consumer goods
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data, identify trends and make recommendations
• Working knowledge of SAP and good proficiency in Excel
• Excellent communicator and relationship builder, confident working across different functions and levels
• High attention to detail, with strong organisational and time management skills

This is a great opportunity to step into a planning role with broad exposure, supportive leadership, and the chance to contribute to a high-performing, well-established global brand.