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Materials Manager

Employer
b3 jobs
Location
East Midlands Region
Salary
£34,000
Closing date
4 Sep 2018

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Contract Type
Permanent
Function
Planning, Supply Chain
Business Sector
Food Manufacturing

Job Details

Materials Manager

Job ref: 61739 | £34,000 | East Midlands

The company

Monitoring customer and market trends, the business works hard to ensure they are innovative and dynamic in their approach – offering a diverse product range from high volume retail lines to more artisan, hand crafted entertaining products throughout the year. This is a fantastic company to work for, investing in training at all levels, from on-the-job skills training, specialist technical training and professional qualifications.

The job

As a key member of a talented team, the purpose of the Materials Manager is to effectively control all aspects of operational material costs for the business. You will support the production team with accurate information to enable timely investigations to be made for material usage performance, stock control and cash management.

You will oversee and improve the accuracy of the stock taking procedure, coordinate a detailed quarterly stock take for material/packaging, create a Weekly Dashboard showing trends and improvement opportunities, publish reports to identify stock usage for each material category, chair the Material Usage Variance (MUV) meeting, setting targets and actions plus maintain & improve key performance indicators.

Your experience

To be considered for the Materials Manager job, you will be an experienced planner, materials scheduler or similar senior supply chain professional from within food manufacturing. You will be a great communicator, be highly numerical plus be IT literate with strong knowledge of Excel. You will also have a good knowledge of lean manufacturing tools and be able to influence stakeholders and gold meetings to drive improvements.

More details

The Materials Manager job is based in the East Midlands region and is paying £34,000 according to individual skills and previous experience plus benefits including contributory pension scheme, life assurance and 32 days holiday per year (inclusive of bank holidays).

The standard working hours are Tuesday – Saturday, 40 hours per week although some flexibility will be required during peak periods.

How to apply

If this really sounds like you and you want to be considered for the Materials Manager job, please click the Apply button.

Or, alternatively you can apply directly for this job by emailing me, Ryan Marchant, ryan@b3jobs.co.uk quoting job reference 61739.

What happens next?

On applying for this job, you consent to b3 jobs ltd holding your details on file to be able to contact you about your job search, for full details of our GDPR policy, please refer to the b3 jobs website. We aim to contact you within 24 hours on the assumption that your credentials fit the requirements for the role.

b3 jobs is a professional, friendly and progressive food recruitment consultancy established in 2000 dedicated to the food manufacturing industry. We are a market leader for permanent jobs within food and drink manufacturing throughout the UK. All of our consultants have considerable experience in recruitment so you can be confident that they will have your best interests at heart when finding the perfect job for you.

We deal with food jobs covering product development / NPD, quality assurance / QA, technical, process, production, operations, planning, supply, sales, account management, engineering, microbiology, food technology, specifications, marketing, logistics, purchasing, hygiene and auditing. We cover all job levels including Assistants, Technologists, Technicians, Supervisors, Team Leaders, Managers and Directors.

Alternative job titles

Production Planner | Planning Manager | Supply Chain Planner | FMCG Supply Chain Coordinator | Materials Scheduler | Food Manufacturing Supply Chain Jobs | Planning Jobs | East Midlands | Leicestershire

Company

Since 2000, b3 jobs has been helping to further 1000s of people’s careers within the food manufacturing industry, throughout the whole of the UK. As one of the leading specialist food manufacturing recruitment agencies, b3 jobs cover all disciplines both permanent and interim and from graduates to MD’s,

Our core values are always:

  • to find the very best job for you - not us!
  • to give you friendly, ethical, honest and expert recruitment services
  • to advise and not pressurise, so that you can make the right decisions for you

We genuinely strive to provide you with what you want – a job that not only offers the salary you’re after, but also the career progression and job satisfaction that makes going to work all the more worthwhile. Enough trumpet blowing though – visit our website to read just some of our happy previous candidate testimonials - we are more than happy to let our reputation precede us!

For a full up to date list of our jobs, visit www.b3jobs.co.uk

Food Industry Graduates

If you are graduating soon and looking for your first job in food manufacturing, have a look at our Graduate Resource Hub on the b3 jobs website.

https://www.b3jobs.co.uk/graduates

Here you will find everything you need to get started on searching for a new position, from CV and cover letter writing tips, sample food industry job descriptions, informative and entertaining blog posts, useful links and even live graduate vacancies you can apply for.

Company info
Website
Telephone
01435 866000
Location
Heffle Buildings
33a High Street
Heathfield
East Sussex
TN21 8HU
GB

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