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Assistant Buyer & Production Planner

Employer
b3 jobs
Location
West Central Scotland
Salary
£20,000 - £22,000
Closing date
22 May 2019

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

Job Details

Assistant Buyer & Production Planner

Job ref: 62201 | £20,000 - £22,000 | West Central Scotland

The company

This role is working for a family run business which strives to provide their customers with innovative ideas and bespoke product solutions with an emphasis on customer satisfaction and the highest product quality.

The job

Your role as Assistant Buyer & Production Planner is to satisfy customer requests as efficiently and effectively as possible and work closely with suppliers and the production teams to ensure an uninterrupted and continuous supply of raw materials in order to meet planned production targets.

You will place orders with suppliers, respond to customer and internal queries on lead-times, manage the production plan, schedule production in line with orders, research new suppliers and ingredients, assist the Senior Buyer with procurement activities, ensure compliance with the BRC standard for procurement, assist with non-conformances as required plus work with production to keep them updated on meeting production schedule.

Your experience

You will be educated to a degree/HND level in a supply chain related capacity and/or possess previous supply chain, planning or similar experience within FMCG or most preferably food manufacturing. The ability to interpret and analyse data is essential, together with excellent problem-solving skills and high attention to detail. You will be IT literate including Microsoft Excel and Word.

More details

The Assistant Buyer & Production Planner job is based in the West Central Scotland region and is paying £20,000 - £22,000 according to individual skills, qualifications and previous experience. The working hours are Monday to Friday, 9am – 5pm., however some flexibility may be required during peak periods.

How to apply

If this really sounds like you and you want to be considered for the Assistant Buyer & Production Planner job, please click the Apply button.

Or, alternatively you can apply directly for this job, by emailing me, Suzy Standen-Payne, suzy@b3jobs.co.uk quoting job reference 62201.

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

Supply Chain Coordinator | Supply Chain Executive | Production Planning Jobs | Supply Planner | Demand Planner | Raw Materials Planner | Food Industry Supply Chain Jobs | West Central Scotland | Renfrewshire

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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