Supply Chain Planner in Reading Butler Ross

A well-established pharmaceutical organisation is looking for a Supply Chain Planner to join their team on a permanent basis in Reading. The position is offering 2 days a week from home and a salary of up to £37,000.

This position will monitor and coordinate the supply chain to manage demand, place accurate orders, optimize stock, and ensure timely, complete deliveries.

Role responsibilities of the Supply Chain Planner include:

• Plan, coordinate, and monitor the entire supply chain, ensuring timely and complete delivery of raw materials, packaging, and finished goods to both UK and international markets.
• Optimise SAP usage by maintaining and reviewing planning parameters, and negotiate inventory management parameters with suppliers, including safety stocks, order quantities, and lead times.
• Manage new product launches, packaging changes, and customer demands, ensuring clear communication of volumes and requirements across the business.
• Monitor performance levels, take corrective actions as needed, and communicate risks and opportunities to senior management.
• Generate KPI reports on supply chain metrics, analyze trends, identify operational issues, and support continuous improvement initiatives.

Person Specification of the Supply Chain Planner:

• Previous experience within supply chain
• Excellent spoken and written communication
• Ability to work under pressure in a progressive and changing environment
• Sound knowledge of SAP or similar ERP system
• Sund knowledge of Microsoft packages, specifically Excel

Up to £37k

This position offers two days a week working from home

This role will be well suited to you if you have held a role within supply chain as a supply chain planner, supply chain coordinator, supply chain specialist, supply planner, inventory planner, materials planner, materials coordinator, materials specialist, supply chain scheduler or operations planner