Purchasing Planner

about 11 hours ago
Full time role
Hybrid · Lenham, England, GB... more

Aliaxis: We make life flow 💧

What does that mean? If you think about it, fluids are needed in every place or process you can imagine - in every home, in every hospital, in every factory, in every farm, in every café… In fact, we rely on fluids everywhere and every day. That’s why Aliaxis are here to help create the safest, most effective, and reliable solutions for sustainable fluid management.

Job Purpose:

The Planner will play a pivotal role in the creation and execution of supply chain buying plans within a well-established market-leading company. Reporting to the Head of Supply, the Planner will manage all activities across the product lifecycle for the portfolio of bought-in finished goods, components, and materials. This ensures all supply chains and value streams are professionally planned, scheduled, and governed, including executing the inventory strategy to ensure high availability with managed excess levels.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Act as a single point of contact for your defined portfolio, driving on-time delivery through effective planning while maintaining the ERP and supporting systems.

  • Identify, prioritize, mitigate, and resolve delivery issues.

  • Produce credible plans to meet customer demands, including inventory, logistics, and storage considerations.

  • Ensure pre-production activities are undertaken to maintain the system with robust, credible data that creates suitable supply plans, taking actions to rectify inaccuracies.

  • Work within the business ERP system and interpret and action the planned proposals generated via the MRP outputs.

  • Manage orderbook/project plans and make balanced decisions to support business priorities and satisfy customer demands.

  • Provide feedback on vulnerabilities and opportunities into the Integrated Business Planning cycle and engage in developing solutions to issues.

  • Optimize inventory logistics across the value stream while minimizing customer delivery risk/costs.

  • Ensure robust answers to any Sales and Operation Planning questions through the Integrated Business Planning process.

  • Participate in business and operational reviews to understand capability to deliver demand requirements and define and manage actions to mitigate risks and issues.

Required Experience, Knowledge, and Characteristics:

  • Significant experience in purchasing planning and scheduling in a similar role within a manufacturing or engineering environment.

  • Decisive, well-organized, systematic, and rigorous approach to planning work and priorities.

  • Excellent influencing and interpersonal skills.

  • Proven track record of delivering results by successfully working with stakeholders and customers.

  • Data-driven with strong analytical and IT skills (Microsoft Office Suite – Excel essential, Power BI preferable); strong understanding of ERP (Dynamics AX preferable); and MRP software.

  • Experience working within S&OP/IBP environment is advantageous.

  • Proactive in challenging current processes with the intention to improve.

  • Highly self-motivated and able to work on own initiative.

  • Energetic driver of continuous improvement.

Benefits:

  • Holiday purchase scheme

  • Life Assurance 6x annual salary

  • Critical illness cover

  • Pension contribution up to 10%

  • Dental & Health cash plans

  • Hybrid Working - 2 days per week from home

  • Enhanced parental leave

  • Great discounts on local retailers and restaurants

  • Fantastic Health & Wellbeing package including an Employee Assistance Programme and access to My Strength

  • Full access to LinkedIn Learning to aid personal and professional development

  • Cycle to work scheme

Plus many more

Equal Opportunity Employer

Aliaxis is proud to be an equal opportunity employer who welcomes candidates and employees from all backgrounds. We are committed to building and investing in a culture of belonging, where all our employees feel empowered, can be their true selves and are able to bring their best ideas forward and contribute to the company’s “Growth with Purpose” strategy. 

For us, equity and belonging start already at the application step: whether it's offering flexibility in scheduling interviews, or ensuring a supportive and inclusive environment, we strive to remove barriers and create equal opportunities for all applicants. Should you have specific needs, please do not hesitate to let us know.