Raw Material Planner

Job Title: Raw Material Planner
Location: Melmerby, North Yorkshire, UK
Shift: Monday to Friday – 4 days onsite, 1 day working from home.

Are you a recent graduate eager to start your career in the agri-business sector?

Do you thrive in a hands-on role and enjoy being part of a supportive team in a growing company?

Are you looking for a role that offers training, development, and a great work-life balance?

If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you!

We are currently seeking a raw material planner to join our supply chain team at AB Neo, based in Melmerby. This is a fantastic chance to develop your career in a dynamic environment where you’ll play a key role in ensuring the efficient management of raw material ordering.

What You'll Be Doing:
Your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Calculating material demand to meet daily production needs while maintaining minimum stock levels.
• Ensuring accurate planning parameters in our IT/MRP systems and regularly reviewing them to optimize material inventory on site.
• Collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to forecast, plan, and ensure timely delivery of materials, preventing any disruptions to production.
• Raising and issuing purchase orders to suppliers, including managing contract and non-contract orders.
• Overseeing imports and exports registration requirements, including preferential origin analysis and Long-Term Supplier Declarations (LTSD).
• Monitoring daily stock levels and addressing any variances or potential shortages, updating the IT system as necessary.
• Supporting contract administration tasks as directed by the Procurement & Planning Manager.
• Assisting with material position and risk reporting based on sales forecasts and procurement strategies.
• Building strong relationships with stakeholders and engaging them in category management processes to achieve desired outcomes.
• Addressing any quality issues with materials in collaboration with the Quality and Technical team.
• Working with the Central Finance teams to resolve supplier invoice queries and proactively minimizing future queries.

What You'll Bring:

• A-Levels or vocational qualifications, or a willingness to learn and develop within the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and projects simultaneously.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications (Excel, PowerPoint, Word); experience with ERP software is a plus.
• Previous experience in materials planning, ideally within a manufacturing environment (Desirable).
• A team player with a positive, friendly, and enthusiastic attitude.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to build effective relationships with suppliers and stakeholders.

Additional Information:

• The site is in a rural area with limited public transport, so a Full Valid Driving Licence is essential.
• Please note that this role is based in a working mill/factory spanning three separate floors, involving numerous stairs and elevated areas.

Rewarding your passion

When you join us, you'll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits – these are just some of the ways we reward you - from day one. 

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.