Agricultural Planner

Agricultural Planner
Brackley
Upto £32,000

Yolk Recruitment are proud to be working with one of the UK largest food businesses looking for an Agricultural Planner to join their expanding team. This is a great opportunity to work alongside a well-established, forward-thinking company.

The role would be best suited to candidates who have previous experience in a planning role and can show forward thinking and an understanding of supply chain management and planning activities.

This is what you’ll be doing

• Creating and maintain processing plans to ensure that factory demand is met on a daily basis
• Ensuring that plans are kept up to date with the latest information including weights and moralities
• Communicate daily and weekly plans to those who require it including farms, factory and various other parties
• To manage plans over a number of weeks in order to forecast how weight and performance is changing and understand what needs to be done in order to maintain company targets
• Plan broiler chick placements in order to ensure that factory supply is in line with what the business requires
• Effectively manage placement densities, grower turnarounds, cycle lengths and any additional placement requests as and when required, e.g., Trials, new sites/housing
• Assist the Hatchery Planner with delivering the chick plan through capacity monitoring and chick purchases from 3rd parties.
• Manage parameters within Mtech and ensure information is kept up to date and entered correctly, including placement information and 3rd party delivery notes
• Communicate to our extensive grower, base their next planned chick placement.
• Liaise with 3rd party companies to buy or sell live birds as / when necessary, in line with maintaining target weight
• Coordinate with farms and area managers to ensure that information is accurate and is received in a timely manner
• Monitor planned weights against actual weights on a daily basis
• Monitor performance and to highlight to the management team any anomalies or significant drops in performance
• Develop strong working relationships with farming partners and communicate information/plans accordingly
• Assist in the development of agricultural planning systems in support of planning process and to manage changes as part of a wider IT project
• Develop and maintain performance metrics which demonstrate strong understanding and control over plan performance
• Ensure that our agricultural processes are not planned to break legislation

The experience you’ll bring to the team

• Demonstrates understanding of supply chain and planning
• Previous experience in a demand/supply or factory planning role
• Strong IT skills - competent in Excel
• Strong numeracy and analytical skills
• Confident, open, collaborative communicator
• Structured and organised - punctual with the ability to work to strict deadlines and multi-task
• Capable of organising and delivering change projects
• Good verbal and especially numerical reasoning
• Approachable, personable and team focused
• Proactive self-starter with a strong work ethic

And this is what you’ll get in return

• Competitive Salary
• 31 Days Holiday
• 6%Pension
• Life Insurance
• Various lifestyle benefits, including wellbeing resources