Job Title: Raw Material Planner
Location: Peterborough/Home working – Hybrid
Permanent: Monday – Friday 37.5 hours per week with weekend on call and bank holiday cover on a rota.
Do you possess outstanding communication, organisation, data analysis, problem-solving, and decision-making skills? If so, join us as a member of our Raw Material Planning team. We are expanding our team to enhance efficiencies and focus on continuous improvement, and we invite you to be a part of this exciting journey.
In this role, you will join a small team responsible for supporting 10 Feed Mills located throughout the UK in the planning and coordination of raw materials essential for Animal Feed production. These raw materials encompass both liquid and dry products, sourced from the UK and across Europe, in both bagged and bulk format.
Your key responsibilities will include:
- Strategically planning the supply of raw materials to manufacturing sites, aligning with production demand, stock levels, and capacity data, while adhering to established processes.
- Delivering exceptional customer service to internal and external stakeholders, encompassing teams such as suppliers, production, formulation, technical, procurement, and demand planning.
- Coordinating with suppliers and hauliers to arrange shipments, confirm delivery instructions, and effectively manage any delivery exceptions.
- Collaborating closely with the Procurement team to oversee purchase contract call-offs, actively managing contract balances, and providing visibility regarding significant changes in requirements.
- Working alongside the Finance teams to investigate and resolve any supplier invoice queries promptly.
- Contributing to continuous improvement initiatives within the team by actively supporting and engaging in new ideas or continuous improvement activities.
- Participating in an on-call rotation, approximately 1 in 5, following adequate training.
This role presents an excellent opportunity if you thrive in problem-solving scenarios and value teamwork. You will play a pivotal role in the heartbeat of our operations, contributing significantly to the successful execution of production processes.
To succeed in this role, we are looking for the following knowledge, skills, and experience:
- Proficiency in logical problem-solving.
- Strong ability to collaborate with diverse stakeholders and manage relationships through effective communication.
- Capacity to work under pressure and adapt to changing priorities with short notice.
- Prior experience in working with data, numbers, and information, including collation and analysis to make informed decisions.
Location/Contract type
For this role we are looking for someone who can work on a hybrid working approach from home and our Peterborough office 1-2 days a week + travel to our UK Mills to gain an understanding of production and build relationships with operations teams.
We are changing the future of British food and farming for the better.
When you join us, you'll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, company car/allowance, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits – these are just some of the ways we reward you - from day one.
About us
ABN is the UK’s number one animal feed business, serving pig and poultry producers across the UK. These range from large corporate customers through to family-owned farm enterprises. We service these customers with feed, nutrition, advice, and related services.
We’re part of AB Agri, the agricultural division of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’re passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry. What sets us apart is how we delight our customers - and that’s because of great people like you. People with different life experiences who share common values. Together we’re building a fair, innovative and inclusive culture.
As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone so if you need any additional support (like alternative formats for your application, bringing a support dog to the offices, a sign language interpreter - or anything else) just let us know.
Application Notes
We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we’d love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can – it will only take a few minutes.
When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive – or show us areas we can improve. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions, and this won’t affect your application.
Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.
Agencies and media sales
AB Agri group politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don’t accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.