The Company
Our client is a fast moving, high risk food manufacturer in the Derby area. A business that is set to go through quite a significant amount of transformation over the coming few years and they are looking for a Head of Planning to help take the company through that change along the way. 

The Role
The effective day-to-day co-ordination of sales, forecasts, stocks, meat and materials supply and capacities to achieve a production plan that achieves and maintains agreed stock levels and customer service

Key responsibilities of the role include:
•    Work in close partnership with sales, customers and operations to provide a daily and weekly production plan that maximises factory efficiency
•    Build long term plans based around customer insight, promotional plans and operational capacity for both production, labour/resourcing and raw material sourcing
•    Provide a daily and weekly raw material plan that minimizes costs and stock-holding and delivers customer orders on time and in full.
•    Responsible for the management of stock holding and write offs.
•    Lead the weekly S&OPs meeting in relation to launches, delists and promotions

The Person
•    Experience of building production plans with products with short shelf life/seasonal products and requiring intensive labour usage
•    Proven experience of successfully managing a team in a fast paced, high pressure environment
•    Ability to clearly communicate and build a strong and effective team 
•    Excellent planning and organisational skills
•    Ability to problem solve and make effective decisions in fluid and changing situations
•    Self-motivated and highly resilient
•    High level of IT skills including advanced Excel skills
•    FMCG experience
•    High level of numeracy to be able to calculate and report on performance