Company Overview
We are a leading international food and supply chain service partner to leading retailers, global brands and the food service sector. We believe in growth and success through partnership. We are an international business. • 7000+ skilled, dedicated employees • £3,847.6m revenue (2022) • 24 modern, high-performance facilities • Serving over 19 markets internationally, working in partnership with leading retail and foodservice brands We have a unique multi-category offer across our 5 pillars of meat; seafood, vegan & vegetarian, easier meals and supply chain services. We’re guided by five key values in everything we do. We’re collaborative: teamwork is everything, whether it’s across functions, geographies or our network of external partners, advisors and suppliers. Collaboration brings diverse viewpoints, which helps us deliver solutions that really work. We’re innovative: we’re constantly looking for better ways of doing things, fine-tuning or even transforming our systems and ways of working. This appetite for innovation drives growth – both for us and our customers. We’re agile: the world is in a state of change, all the time. And so is our market. And the needs of our customers and our people. So, in everything we do, we build in the ability to react quickly to change. To stay ahead of the pack. We’re ambitious: how can we make things better? We set ourselves challenging goals, and with our people and our customers, we achieve them. Together. We’re responsible: we do what’s right because it’s right, not because we’re obliged to. Business should be a force for good, internally, in their communities and beyond. We care about each other, about the planet and about future generations.
About The Role
We are now looking for an experienced Procurement Scheduler to work closely with Procurement Team in order to assist with daily tasks and to keep all supporting information up to date to strengthen the department.
Main area of focus is around day to day scheduling of all products; keeping all supporting documents up to date and relevant departments informed of the schedules.
Provide cover for the Procurement Team.
As a Procurement Scheduler, some of the responsibilities will be:
- Take ownership of packaging and ingredient stocks; place bulk orders with suppliers, raise Despatch Orders to call stock off from Turners as per Planning request and forecast requirements
- Place orders for all new and existing Promo flashes to ensure sufficient stock levels
- Keep forecasts up to date by liaising with Commercial and Retail Forecaster, keep suppliers updated with any delists/major uplifts etc.
- Order sundries stocks in line with forecast and raise PO’s as necessary.
- Place frequent orders of film, using daily count to monitor usage.
- Learn daily Procurement tasks to provide cover when needed and to further career
- Ensure Fops systems are up to date with delivery dates, quantities of orders and current products to allow for smooth ordering/booking in process. Raise requests for any new products to be added prior to ordering.
- Ensure all packaging/ingredients required for pre-production trials are ordered and information sent to NPD
- Keep Packaging Template up to date with all current codes and prices
- Attend NPD meetings to provide input into packaging concepts, ideas and feedback to team
To succeed as a Procurement Scheduler, we ask that you have the following experience/expertise:
- Have the ability to liaise with the site management teams
- Pro-actively engage the Procurement team with ideas for development
- Attention to detail
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