Join our team and be part of a company that truly lives its values. With our expertise and commitment to innovation, we aim to build trust and make health and wellness accessible to all. By fostering inclusivity and care, we work collaboratively to improve the well-being of our colleagues, customers, and communities.
We are seeking an enthusiastic and solutions driven Commercial Planning Assistant to join our Supply Chain team, aiding in the maintenance of stock levels of defined portfolios, assisting in the creation of promotional forecasts and ensuring the upweighted volumes are communicated to vendors in a timely manner and ensuring we maintain target availability across designated sub-categories for all channels and territories, guaranteeing great availability every day and ensuring promotions and new range availability are delivered and maintained at the required levels.
The Role
Key Responsibilities:
*To determine purchase order requirements.
*To ensure purchase orders are raised and communicated in a timely manner in line with vendor lead times.
*To manage the open order book ensuring purchase orders are prioritised to minimise out of stocks and drive availability instore and on-line.
*To ensure promotional availability is delivered to the required levels.
*To ensure range review availability is delivered in a timely manner to ensure success.
*To manage PO’s and ensure they are closed in a timely manner.
*To maintain key documents with up to date and current information i.e. open order book, co-pack ordering model.
*To manage our vendor base and ensure they are performing to the required standards as stated in the vendor manual.
*To manage our vendors OTIF performance.
Location: Hybrid with 2 days based at our Nuneaton head office (CV10 7RH). 
The Person
Key Requirements: 
*Ability to work cross functionally – Category teams, warehouse.
*Ability to create effective relationships with vendor base.
*Ability to create effective relationships with the wider Commercial Planning team, ensuring best practise is met and maintained across the function.
*Able to think creatively to solve problems.
*Intermediate Excel skills.
*Ability to interpretation and manipulation of data.
What we offer
Our Benefits for this role include, but not limited to:
*H&B Employee Discount - 25%
*Pension company contribution
*Exclusive benefits, free advice and savings from a range of retailers and providers
*And many more!
We’re passionate about helping every colleague thrive across all dimensions of wellbeing, and we’re committed to having a diverse and inclusive workplace. In line with our EPIC values (Expertise, Pioneering, Inclusive, Caring), we embrace and actively celebrate all our colleagues’ unique and varying experiences, backgrounds, identities and cultures - I am me, we are H&B. 

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