Supply Planner 12-month maternity cover

Pip & Nut is a rapidly growing award-winning food brand with big ambitions; in just nine years we’ve scaled to over 20,000 points of distribution with listings in high end stores like Wholefoods & Selfridges as well as Tesco’s, Sainsbury’s, Waitrose, Coop, ASDA & Morrisons and are the fastest growing nut butter brand in the UK & a challenger brand in snacking. With this exciting growth we make sure it’s not to the detriment of people or planet and profit and as a result we’re proud to say we’re a certified B-corporation since 2019.

The Role

As part of the Pip & Nut Supply Chain team, your job will be to own all production planning and procurement for current ranges. This includes managing and maintaining great relationships with our factory partners and suppliers, as well as cost management of packaging and raw materials. 

The role is a 12-month fixed term contract providing maternity leave cover.

In a nutshell, you are responsible for:

• Production planning across all factories.
• Raw material and packaging procurement (including planning and cost management).
• Ensuring production is running to plan to deliver a healthy stock holding and service level to our customers.
• Building great relationships with our suppliers and factories.
• Cost saving and operational improvement project delivery. 

In more detail, this means:

• Creating our production plans for all factories and communicating new purchase orders to factories
• Factory lead for 2 of our main factories which involves: 
• Liaising with factory planning teams weekly to understand and find solutions to any interruptions in production.
• Building great relationships with our factory partners.
• Coordinating and leading quarterly meetings with our factories in order to maintain a positive working relationship, share objectives and progress and review KPIs.
• Managing packaging stock across all suppliers and factories to ensure sufficient cover for production and minimising write off risks.
• Work with our Pip & Nut internal team, factories and suppliers on any packaging or raw material changes.
• Working with our Supply & Demand Planning Manager to optimise stock holding and deliver our core Supply Chain metric – On Time & In Full deliveries (OTIF).
• Negotiate pricing and terms with packaging and ingredient suppliers. 
• Manage our sampling forecast process with our Sales & Marketing teams, and timeline production at our factories. 
• Approve factory invoices. 
• Delivering cost saving initiatives across our supply chain and process improvement projects to streamline our operations.
• Actively contribute to making our wider Pip & Nut culture and place of work best in class.
• Be an ambassador for B-corp and proactively look for ways to make positive change within our operations team. 

Specific knowledge, qualifications, skills & experience required:

• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
• Driven and self-motivated
• Problem solving ability 
• Team player and great communication skills
• Experience of planning and relationship management in a supply chain context (preferably in FMCG)
• Energy, enthusiasm and commitment 
• Intermediate to advanced Excel
• Proven experience within a supply chain role

Purpose:

Help people love food, that loves them & the planet

Pip & Nut Company Values:

• Bring the fun – We bring fun, laughter and positive energy to everything we do
• Be Open – We believe in realness, from our people and ingredients to the way we run our business
• Keep it real – We take care to listen and find ways to be accessible to everyone
• Never Settle – We’re ambitious, a little bit obsessed and will never compromise on quality

How to Apply:

Please send your CV and Cover Letter to [email removed - click apply for more details] with ‘Supply Planner’ in the subject title. Entries will close 10.03.2024 at 5pm

We will then be in touch to let you know if you are to be invited for an interview.

Your cover letter should include why you are excited to work for the business and what skills and experience you’ll bring to the role. Unfortunately, we will only be considering candidates who share both a CV and Cover Letter.

*Please Note* As an SME, we are unable to provide Sponsorship.

Recruitment Timeline

CV Submission Closing: 10/03/2024

1st Round Interviews: w/c 18th March

2nd Round Interviews: w/c 25th March

We are happy to reimburse travel expenses to and from the interviews where necessary.  

Remuneration

Competitive Salary DEO

Bonus

Perks (see below)

What’s in it for you?

1. Competitive remuneration package including bonus structure.
2. Generous Pension Contribution, and the ability to invest in a sustainable fund if you so wish.
3. Individual L&D budget to support individual personal development plan.
4. Extensive physical and mental health cover through private health care (Vitality), dental insurance, critical illness and life insurance.
5. 29 days holiday, which includes 4 Squirrel Holidays e.g a day off on your birthday, ½ days on Friday in August, ½ on Christmas Eve, and ½ day on New Year’s Eve (25 days base holiday + 4 Squirrel Holidays)
6. 3 volunteering days a year, which can be spent with a charity of your choice.
7. Flexi-working and working from home allowing you the flexibility to fit in personal commitments around your work. We also have a 4 week ‘work from anywhere in the world’ policy.
8. Working Hours are 9am – 5.30pm (Mon-Thu) and an early finish on Fridays at 4pm.
9. Free breakfast, a no desk lunch policy and of course unlimited nut butter.
10. Finally, our office (aka The Nest) is based in the iconic Tea Building in Shoreditch, London, a great location for food at lunch and a drink or two after work.

Pip & Nut values a diverse workforce, gender, people of colour, people with disabilities and members of the LGBTQ community are strongly encouraged to apply. If there is anything we can do accommodate you to participate fully In the recruitment or Interview process please let us know by email to [email removed - click apply for more details].