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Group Planner Full time Onsite, Lincoln Benefits 4.5 working week, finishing at 12:30pm on a Friday 25 days annual leave, plus Bank Holidays Company bonus scheme Enhanced pension contributions Private Health Insurance Life Assurance & critical illness cover Onsite Parking Discounts platform Long service celebrations Employee Assistance Programme Free fruit & potatoes Electric salary sacrifice car scheme Flu vaccines Refer a friend scheme The company From our sites in Lincoln, Scotland and the Southwest, we supply some of the largest retail, wholesale and food manufacturing customers in the UK.
Our expertise goes much further than just supply and demand.
We offer our customers real innovation, whether developing new potato varieties, packaging solutions or cutting-edge processes.
And its not just fresh potatoes.
We're also continually developing our great range of innovative, ready-to-cook prepared vegetables.
At Branston we thrive to be the best, through our values and invest in our people.
This is a fast-paced environment and looking for someone who is adaptable in their approach.
Are you looking for a new role where you can develop your career?
You will develop and drive the planning function across both our Fresh and Prepared factories in order to optimise the usage of raw material in the most quality focused and profitable manner.
You will drive the sales and operations planning monthly process to ensure clarity and transparency of our sales forecasting, raw material position and operational capacity planning throughout the year.
What you will be doing: Review and improve the management of raw material availability and sales forecasts against demand Review and manage our monthly to short term planner Assess to improve our departmental processes to improve cost efficiency Manage the group wide ERP system of raw materials Assist in the annual budgeting process Assist in the forward planning for raw material contracts What we want from you: Essential Strong numerical & analytical skills Proficient in Excel Strong organisational skills Self-starter Effective communicator and influence at all levels Desirable Experience within fresh produce or food manufacturing Experience using an ERP system TPBN1_UKTJ