Job Introduction
Inventory Planner | Permanent | £43,000- £51,000 | Any Site
The Inventory Planner will take ownership of our inventory strategy for glass manufacturing and beverage operations. In this role, you will strike the right balance between ensuring smooth plant operations, maintaining high customer service levels, and minimizing warehouse costs while defining policies for campaign stock, safety stock, and minimum stock levels. In this role you’ll analyse historical data, production cycles, and demand accuracy to develop inventory process that is practical, value-driven, and aligned with business goals. You’ll monitor compliance, report on inventory bias, accuracy and losses, and continuously refine practices to optimise performance.
Define clear process for campaign stock, safety stock, and minimum stock levels at a profile level, ensuring they balance plant efficiency, customer service, and warehouse cost optimisation. Determine optimal inventory levels based on historical consumption, campaign plans and job changes, sales demand, and business priorities to minimise slow-moving or excess stock.
The Key Requirements
- Experience in inventory planning, supply chain, or operations management, preferably in manufacturing or beverage operations.
- Proven track record of setting inventory policies for safety stock, minimum stock, and campaign stock.
- Experience in reducing aged, slow-moving, or excess inventory while optimising working capital.
- Hands-on experience with ERP systems and inventory reporting tools.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate with production, procurement, and logistics teams to balance operational efficiency and customer service.
- Experience in analysing data and KPIs to drive inventory performance improvements.
Part of the Vidrala group, we are a market leader in glass container design, manufacturing, bottling and logistics solutions for the UK, Irish and European food and beverages industries.
With over 2,000 employees, we operate from our three purpose-built sites: Derrylin, Co Fermanagh; Elton, Cheshire and Bristol. We produce around 3 billion glass bottles and other containers annually and can fill up to 500 million litres of bulk shipped beverages every year. Our collective purpose is to deliver and uphold world-leading sustainable innovation, with great people and a great workplace collaborating on a great future.
Joining Encirc means you will be joining a business with a bespoke, 360-approach to the beverage supply chain, spanning filling, warehousing, and logistics. Reducing the road miles and carbon footprint of our customers' products, we are conscious disruptors prioritising sustainability and modern technology. As a forward-thinking and sustainable business, we are committed to achieving zero emissions by 2030.
The Benefits and Perks
- Free onsite gym for all employees
- MyBenefits Reward Platform with 100s of discounts at restaurants and retailers
- Employee Well-being benefits
- Pension scheme
- Life cover
- Professional Development Planning with onsite HR team
- International organisation with plenty of opportunities
- Subsidised onsite staff restaurant
- Subsidised electric car charging
- Holiday buy and sell scheme
Click apply, submitting an up-to-date CV tailored to this job opportunity. We look forward to hearing from you.
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PLEASE NOTE: We reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.
Thank you for your interest.
