Head of Planning

A fantastic opportunity has come up for a Head of Planning to join my client a high end consumer business based in Essex. As the Head of Planning you will have responsibility for coordinating the Supply Chain team to deliver target levels of Service, Cost and inventory across the company network.

Your responsibilities will include the following:

• Responsible for the management of the monthly planning cycle including demand and supply planning
• Management of planning system including ongoing development
• Manage short term supply decisions in partnership with Sales and Customer services
• Working with the Demand Plan to highlight and mitigate any potential availability issues before they occur.
• Accountable for the integrity of the full Supply and Demand Plan
• Design and implement a sustainable plan that will deliver an improvement in availability as well as ensuring that stock holding, and waste are not detrimentally impacted.
• Provide Supply Chain Planning information for budget and forecasting processes.

The ideal candidate will have the following

• Degree qualified or equivalent experience
• A strong, inspirational leader, coupled with people management experience and who has a great balance of people and commercial focus.
• Confident in your ability to deliver both personally and through your team.
• A strong communicator with the ability to influence and offer sound judgement in an operational context, with complex problems that will require creativity and drive
• Commercially astute with high attention to detail
• Able to influence and manage stakeholder relationships

This is a hybrid role where you will be expected to be in the office 2-3 times a week depending on business needs.

The salary on offer is from £70,000 - £75,000 + bonus and excellent benefits