Scheduler - East Midlands - £35k - £40k depending on experience

Our client is a specialist, premium brand supplier for print, post and e-delivery solutions, and is currently seeking a Scheduler to join its Operations team, with the primary aim of meeting product due dates and achieving maximum throughput from the production system.

Key Responsibilities will include the following:

• Prepares and maintains daily, weekly, and monthly processing schedules for a three-shift operation.
• Liaises with Operations regarding scheduling conflicts or issues.
• Demonstrates continuous effort to improve operations, decrease turnaround times, streamline work processes, and work cooperatively and jointly to provide quality.
• Liaises with Client Services on inbound work.
• Ensures that staffing levels are sufficient for the workload on the working shift in conjunction with the Shift Manager.
• Maximises efficiency driven by the schedule in production ensuring expectations are achieved.
• Constantly plans all warehouse resources and activities in relation to the daily, weekly, and monthly schedules.
• Conducts demand planning and forecasting, coordinating the demand forecast of all customers and sharing the forecast with all internal and external suppliers.
• Planned resource allocation, including current stock inventory and forecast demand, in collaboration with all suppliers.
• Responds in real time to disruptions.

The ideal candidate will be expected to demonstrate the following competencies:

• Planning and organising - able to think ahead in order to establish an efficient and appropriate course of action for self and others; prioritises and plans activities taking into account all the relevant issues and factors such as deadlines, staffing and resources.
• Communication - able to get one's message understood clearly by adopting a range of styles, tools and techniques appropriate to the audience and the nature of the information.
• Influencing and persuading - able to present sound and well reasoned arguments to convince others; can draw from a range of strategies to persuade people in a way that results in agreement or behaviour change.
• Managing relationships and team working - able to build and maintain effective working relationships with a range of people; works co-operatively with others to be part of a team, as opposed to working separately or competitively.
• Resilience - manages personal effectiveness by managing emotions in the face of pressure, setbacks or when dealing with provocative situations; demonstrates an approach to work that is characterised by commitment, motivation and energy.
• Flexibility - adapts and works effectively with a variety of situations, individuals or groups; understands and appreciates different and opposing perspectives on an issue, adapts an approach as the requirements of a situation change, and easily accepts changes in one's own organisation or job requirements.
• Analytical thinking - able to simplify complex problems, processes or projects into component parts, explore and evaluate them systematically; identifies causal relationships and constructs frameworks for problem solving and/or development.
• Decision making - is ready and able to take the initiative, originate action and be responsible for the consequences of the decisions made.