A Production Planning Manager position has become available to work for a manufacturer that specialises in the manufacturing of parts and accessories to the automotive industry.

Production Planning Manager role -

To be the key position in the business to ensure that all production plans are managed effectively to ensure that all production plans are met and customer requirements fulfilled.

Duties to include -

• Effective management, training and mentoring of the Production Planning Team.
• Ensure a robust rolling production schedule to meet customer needs and demands ion line with Budgets and where possible under budget
• Working with Suppliers to ensure a smooth flow of raw materials to the site.
• Effective inventory/stock management at all times so that no production runs are delayed due to the lack of material.

Production Planning Manager desirable skills/experience/attributes -

• Previous experience of managing a similar function within a manufacturing facility.
• You will be a strong manager of people with the ability to lead from the front whilst training and mentoring your team members to perform at a high level within each of their jobs.
• Knowledge of MRP and ERP systems. It would be advantageous to have experience using SAP.

If interested in this position, please apply through this advert immediately.

Please note, if your application is suitable, one of our consultants will call you within 5 working days. If you have not heard from us within this time, your application has unfortunately been unsuccessful, however we will keep your details on our talent management system to consider you for future opportunities.

Dealership Accountant

Automotive

Regional role in the south must have the ability to work in North London 1-2 days per week.

Competitive salary plus excellent benefits including, bonus, car, pension scheme and other flexible benefits

A leading car manufacturer based in just outside the M25 is recruiting a Dealer Accountant to assist the dealer networks to improve their operation and their profitability of underperforming dealerships.

Responsibilities

• Providing the network development team with dealer financial assessment support
• Work with the dealer network to improve and to deliver higher levels of profitability
• Developing business plans for existing and new dealers entering the network
• Assist the network development team in assessing underperforming dealers and their viability to improve their operations.
• Assist in Business plan development

Skills and experience

In order to be successful in your application, you will ideally have worked for a manufacturer or a large dealership franchise and have a proven track record of turning around underperforming dealers improving overall profitability.

Please note, if your application is suitable, one of our consultants will call you within 5 working days. If you have not heard from us within this time, your application has unfortunately been unsuccessful, however we will keep your details on our talent management system to consider you for future opportunities.

Shift Manager

Rotating shifts

Cambridgeshire

3PL E-fulfilment

Salary Circa £35000

A leading 3PL organisation are recruiting a shift manager for one of their flagship distribution centres based in Cambridgeshire. You will manage a team within an E-fulfilment/Retail distribution centre and have experience as a shift manager within a fast moving, challenging environment.

The Job

• You will supervise and motivate your team to ensure all delivery standard and deadlines are achieved.
• Ensure you have the correct level of resource, i.e. staffing levels appropriate to match operational demands.
• Manage your team to ensure all KPI's are met.
• Conduct formal disciplinary, performance and grievance reviews
• Maintain a high level of health and safety standards across the site

Experience Required

• Previous shift management/team leading experience essential.
• You will need to have experience of working within a DC where you worked with E-fulfilment or retail fulfilment.
• Excellent communicator at all levels
• Ability to react to the business needs and multi-task
• Commercially aware and have a high level of attention to detail

You will be working for an exciting, dynamic, established, growing business that is constantly changing and positively reacting to the market and consumer trends. This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of something big and to grow your career further.

Please note, if your application is suitable, one of our consultants will call you within 5 working days. If you have not heard from us within this time, your application has unfortunately been unsuccessful, however we will keep your details on our talent management system to consider you for future opportunities.

Inventory Systems Engineer (Contract) Job opportunities have become available, within a leading manufacturing business. Located near Coventry, this well-regarded company is offering a competitive hourly rate, for the right engineering professionals.

Inventory Systems Engineer role -

To lead the development, support and implementation of systems for inventory management, production planning and capacity planning in the SAP MRP

Inventory Systems Engineer duties include -

• Develop the overall supply chain systems to optimise inventory levels including the development of the Sales Inventory and Operations planning processes (SIOP)
• Develop systems to consolidate sales and demand forecasts from the demand planners, business development, MRO and NPI to produce a rolling factory demand schedule
• Support monthly SIOP, factory and capacity review meetings with key business development personnel and operations management
• Develop, maintain and support business development functions in determining lead times, minimum/maximum order and pack sizes and manage the MRP system to support these.
• Design and develop effective planning systems for low value parts implementing where practical call-off, consignment and Kanban systems
• Develop and maintain a robust inventory obsolescence and reduction process including the maintenance of master data settings and order modification
• Support the demand planning team in the implementation of the plans, and the maintenance of the price lists.
• Carry out special duties as assigned.

Inventory Systems Engineer desirable skills/experience/attributes -

• HND or degree (or equivalent) in relevant subject area or relevant experience.
• Experience in forecasting, material requirement management, inventory management, logistics management, or a customer supporting role is required.
• Familiarity with ERP software applications (SAP, Forecasting Systems).
• Excellent inter-personal and communication skills, complemented by the ability to prioritise workload with attention to detail and a sense of timeliness.
• Strong PC skills including MS Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• National and international travel may be required for Customer visits.

Inventory Systems Engineer position benefits -

• Friendly working environment and hours.
• Opportunity to work for a leading and ever growing manufacturing business.
• The potential of working in this role for a long period of time

If interested in this position, please apply through this advert immediately.

Please note, if your application is suitable, one of our consultants will call you within 5 working days. If you have not heard from us within this time, your application has unfortunately been unsuccessful, however we will keep your details on our talent management system to consider you for future opportunities.

Analyst

Birmingham

Permanent

Circa £25k plus excellent benefits

A global automotive business based in Birmingham is recruiting for an analyst to work within their commercial division. The successful candidate will assist and support the business in analysing sales data to enable clearer sales forecasting. You will analyse data from Microsoft Excel and deliver your findings to the business in a clear and concise format to enable the sales teams to enhance and further grow the business.

The Role

• Using Microsoft Excel, you will analyse data from the customer base, including historical sales data to look for sales patterns.
• Predict sales forecasting and future projections on sales and volume.
• Produce a wide range of reports for the business including brand and market analysis and sales reports.
• Lead presentations to key managers within the business in relation to your analytical findings, mostly within a Microsoft Powerpoint format.
• Continually develop business tools and reporting systems to drive more accurate forecasting.

Requirements

• Previous experience as an analyst is essential. It would be an advantage to have worked within a large, complex retail environment. However, you can have worked within a smaller business as long as there were high levels of SKU's or product lines.
• Microsoft Excel skills with experience of pivot tables, complex formulas and v look-ups are essential.
• You will need to have the ability to turn your data into a format easily understood by the business.
• You will need to have strong communication and presentation skills and to be comfortable talking to a room of people.
• Experienced in using Microsoft PowerPoint as you will regularly use this to present your findings.
• Ability to travel both the UK and abroad.

Please note, if your application is suitable, one of our consultants will call you within 5 working days. If you have not heard from us within this time, your application has unfortunately been unsuccessful, however we will keep your details on our talent management system to consider you for future opportunities.

INTERIM PROJECT BUYER SPEAKER NEEDED!

3 MONTH CONTRACT: STRONG CHANCE OF FURTHER EXTENSIONS BEYOND THIS.

Are you an experienced Buyer or Senior Buyer looking for your next contract or interim assignment? Are you experienced in low volume, high-Value manufacturing procurement? You will be based out of their Worcestershire office but will need to work out of their Luton facility a couple of days per week.

The company is a successful manufacturing business with multiple sites across the UK and a specialist in automation for a range of industries including the automotive industry.

You will be responsible for:

• As the buyer, you will procure a range of bespoke items related to manufacturing. These will be mostly low volume, high-value parts and components.
• Negotiation on cost whilst ensuring product quality standard is met and improved where possible.
• Working with customers and suppliers forging strong procurement relationships and where appropriate assisting them with their procurement strategies.
• Research, generation, selection and management of new suppliers.

We would love to hear from you if you have had the following experience:

• Worked as a Buyer or Senior Buyer within a manufacturing, production or engineering environment.
• Managed project spends from £100k to £2 million.
• Worked with a range of systems including MRP, SAGE and SAP

If you're interested hearing more about the role then please apply online today!

Please note, if your application is suitable, one of our consultants will call you within 5 working days. If you have not heard from us within this time, your application has unfortunately been unsuccessful, however we will keep your details on our talent management system to consider you for future opportunities.