Material Planner
Location: Scarborough
- Come join Alexander Dennis. We are transforming public transport globally by designing, manufacturing, and servicing the cleanest and greenest buses and coaches for our customers.
- In a nutshell, we build buses and coaches. In fact, more than half of the buses you see on the roads in the UK are built by Alexander Dennis. We have a huge responsibility to keep the world moving.
- We are saving the planet. Our purpose is to support Governments globally with their push to reduce pollution and improve air quality by building greener, more eco-friendly buses.
- We love our customers. So much so, almost every bus we build is bespoke what the customer wants, we will do our best to deliver.
- We have a fantastic Canadian parent company called NFI. They welcomed us into the family in 2019, and we haven’t looked back ever since.
- We are building back and growing again, winning new orders in Germany and Ireland which will be manufactured right here in the UK.
- Our global footprint is pretty impressive. We have a presence in some super cool places across the world from Hong Kong to Auckland to Toronto.
- Our people are our biggest asset, making us the hugely successful company we are. We are transforming how we work, offering team members more flexibility around how they live and work.
What does that mean for you?
- Generous salary package we reward our people at the level they deserve
- A 37-hour working week, giving you that much needed work/life balance
- Annual leave entitlement which increases with tenure
- Pension scheme to help you save for the future
- Access to our Employee Assistance Programme which offers practical, impartial support on issues impacting your life
- Cycle to work scheme, discounted gym membership, and regular meditation sessions as your health and wellbeing is important to us.
Interested and want to find out more? Check out our YouTube channel here!
Your dream role:
We have an exciting opportunity for a Material Planner to join our successful, international business.
Working with a wide range of suppliers, you will be responsible for ensuring that materials are delivered on time, to an acceptable quality standard and within budget, in line with the production schedule. In addition, you will be responsible for managing any exceptions and material shortages and communicating these issues in an accurate and timely manner.
- Be responsible for the availability of your designated parts by ensuring purchase orders (PO’s) are placed in line with demand.
- Maintain great communication with suppliers to ensure deliveries are achieved and take action when deliveries do not meet the schedule.
- Address all modification requests ensuring all cancellations, new parts and deliveries are progressed in a timely manner to reduce the impact to business.
- Proactively escalate all material issues and shortages impacting production in a timely manner.
- Address all lost and damaged orders and ensure the best delivery dates are achieved.
- Use your strong understanding of the MRP system to create and maintain PO’s whilst utilising key MRP master data to optimise inventory levels.
- Monitor supplier performance to develop an understanding of repeat supplier delivery discrepancies and work with the wider team to put corrective actions in place where issues arise.
- Liaise with all departments to ensure compliance with production requirements.
- You will take responsibility for close out of delivery and invoicing queries in a timely manner, ensuring accuracy of inventories and timely supplier payments.
- You will monitor overall material availability as well as levels of excess and inactive stock, re-utilise on future contracts or at alternative build sites.
- Ensure all reports, metrics and material status sheets are updated as required.
- You will have the opportunity for your voice to be heard, we have lots of scope for improvement in various areas and are keen to embrace change.
What you will bring:
- Ideally you will be qualified to HNC level (or equivalent experience) in a relevant discipline. A recognised Supply Chain or Logistics related professional qualification such as CIPS, APICS would be advantageous, although not essential.
- Your experience will be gained in another similarly complex, fast-moving materials environment.
- You will have strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and negotiate with colleagues and suppliers. Furthermore, you will have the credibility to manage problem suppliers to find mutually beneficial solutions to problems.
- Analytical by nature, you will be comfortable work