Supply Chain Production Planner Runcorn, England
Job description
We are Protein Works™
Rewind to 12th December 2012. Out of a freezing cold office (because we couldn’t afford heating back then!), our founders huddled round a couple of laptops. This was the moment. After a year of working round the clock and a lifetime of tempering the thirst to create a world class brand, we pressed LAUNCH. That was the moment Protein Works.™ website went live to the world.
It’s not an overly fancy story, we know. There’re no garages worked out of, no office in the Bay Area to talk up. But fancy isn’t in our DNA, innovation is. With the idea to rock the very foundations of a sports nutrition industry that had become stagnant, we set out to create a health and fitness brand that put pure quality & wow service before the lowest possible price. We knew we’d be the underdogs from the very beginning. But you know what? We love that.
Fast forward around 10 years and the journey from humble Cheshire beginnings, to over 3 million orders shipped globally may be in the bag, but our future is just beginning.
So of course, it follows naturally that we believe in an in-house approach. We put talent and expertise at the centre of our brand. For us, team is everything. In short, we don’t ‘do’ agencies, and we emphatically believe our people are the best ones to create and deliver success. As such, PW is an entrepreneurial place that values those people who want to make a dent, don’t want to be held back & don’t do politics. We are bored with ‘corporate’, are positively impatient & passionate self-learners. The culture is fast paced, supportive, and audacious.
At our Cheshire based HQ we live and breathe the full business mix – an ever-growing facility across two sites and almost 100,000sq ft. On Campus One, you’ll find everything to do with Innovation & Manufacturing of our award-winning products. Just around the corner, on Campus Two, you’ll discover everything from Sales & Marketing and Product Development to Supply Chain Planning, Finance and Customer Experience.
Oh and our vast Fulfilment Centre is there also. We ship out over 3,000 products around the world, every day, to help people achieve their health and fitness dreams, live healthier lives and make a difference.
The Role: Supply Chain Planner (Production)
This role is based within our vertically integrated Manufacturing & Logistics Centre in Runcorn and has the following main responsibilities: -
● Create daily, weekly and monthly production plans to optimise manufacturing performance, whilst considering allergen controls, labour resource and commercial priorities
● Review daily the factory output against plan and adjust plans accordingly in an agile manner
● Schedule ad hoc production runs for global customer orders for both Protein Works & abnormal brands
● Monitor and maintain finished goods inventory levels on both a short and long term view basis
● Co-ordinate & model sales forecasts to ensure demand needs are met in a timely & efficient manner
● Ensure production runs are aligned with Online, Amazon and International Trade channel requirements
● Collaborate with the Production Team to drive continuous improvement
● Present data insights and management information in a compelling manner to support production resource decisions and future strategic plans
● Work closely with the whole Supply Chain Planning to provide the wider business a clear direction on supply chain challenges
● Liaise with key functions across the business including Procurement, Commercial, Fulfilment and NPD
● Play a key role in the launch of new products and the discontinuation of old ones
● Develop and improve existing planning tools to support our high growth strategy
The successful candidate will ideally have an excellent understanding of food manufacturing and some experience within a planning function. The candidate should also be interested in driving improvements through team collaboration across the business.
Immediate Responsibilities and Hot Projects
Plot, Plan and Deliver on the following:
1. Immediately take over the day-to-day production planning function.
2. Review our current working practices and trigger improvements at proliferated pace.
3. Develop effective working relationships with the key resources in the business.
4. Improve our production planning to improve ‘out of stocks’ and also manage stock levels.
5. Improving our stock cover across all skus and ensuring under/over stocks are managed effectively.
6. Partner with Commercial, NPD, Technical and Operations colleagues on a daily basis.
7. Work with the Head of Planning and the Manufacturing’s team to identify better ways of working and support with implementing a ‘continuous improvement’ culture
8. Challenge positively the plan attainment, stock levels and ingredient levels.
9. Daily reporting and managing of key metrics.
10. Ability to work effectively on your own and use your own initiative
The Things You’ll Nail as Standard
1. Create reports and presentations for the wider business
2. Ability to use excel to a high level as part of your core responsibilities
3. Coordinating with internal teams and individuals to develop an effective way of working
4. Regular communication with the operational team and senior management team
5. Oversee the current planning process for a hundreds of product lines
6. Well-organised, with an eye for detail in everything you do
7. A strong work ethos to document key working processes and practices
8. Attending and contributing to planning and operational meetings.
9. Supporting the commercial team with key information for effective decision making.
10. Great team worker and the ability to see a ‘challenge as an opportunity’.
You’re Naturally Like This…
1. Possess a “can-do” attitude
2. Highly enthusiastic with a drive to improve and develop new ways of working and improving
3. Have a growing strategic mindset and appreciation
4. Avid self-learner & teacher
5. Highly motivated self-starter with a flexible, can-do attitude
6. An uncommonly fast-learner
7. Place a high value on delivering business impact
8. Able to trade-off short & long-term targets and have a history of making the right calls
9. Positively impatient
10. Great at building positive, productive collaborations and teams
11. Competent at extracting information and make effective use of it
12. Excellent interpersonal skills
13. Ability to clearly communicate complex topics in simple terms, to a variety of audiences
Non-Negotiables
1. Highly organised and excellent verbal and written skills
2. Ability to multi-task and deliver to deadlines
3. Ability to lead and motivate, and challenge as required
4. Proven experience in a planning or business forecasting role
5. Excellent relationship building skills and ability to influence at various levels
Desirables
1. Degree educated
2. Experience in FMCG / Sports Nutrition category
3. Experience of working in an E-Commerce vertically integrated business
We Think This Type of Person Would Kill the Role!
1. An exceptional graduate with work placement or work experience in an analytical role
2. A strong planner who has 2-3 years experience in a similar role
3. A highly numerate executive looking for a challenging commercial role
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Benefits:
- Bereavement leave
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Flexitime
- Free parking
- On-site parking
- Sick pay
- Store discount
Schedule:
- Flexitime
- Monday to Friday
Supplemental pay types:
- Bonus scheme
- Performance bonus
- Yearly bonus
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Runcorn: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Experience:
- Production Scheduling: 1 year (preferred)
- Production Management: 1 year (preferred)
Work Location: In person
Expected start date: 05/06/2023
