Senior Production Planner

This Role is known internally as a Supply Chain Planner. Production Planning Lead manages and optimizes the production planning process within the manufacturing environment. This role involves overseeing the scheduling, coordination, and execution of production activities to ensure efficient operations, timely delivery, and cost-effective output. The role will lead the daily production planners to ensure service level is being met while minimalizing downtime and optimising production efficiency. The Supply Chain planner will also be looking at forward forecasting to ensure plans are in place for upcoming product launches or promotional activity to ensure these are delivered. Key Responsibilities: Creating and periodically assessing long-term production plans which are aligned to the forecast. Reviewing ABC SKU rankings and Safety Stock targets. To communicate capacity data findings with manufacturing departments. Provide capacity data to departments for the capital expenditure budgets To aid preparation of monthly departmental management reports. Creating and managing detailed production schedules to meet customer demand and optimize resource utilization. Collaborating with various departments (e.g., sales, purchasing, engineering) to ensure smooth production flow and alignment of resources. Monitoring inventory levels of raw materials and finished goods, and coordinating with purchasing to ensure timely procurement. Analysing production data, ..... full job details .....