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About the Role
As our new Supply Planner, you'll play a key role in ensuring our customers have the products they need, when they need them. You'll take ownership of inventory planning, supplier performance and stock availability, balancing customer demand with commercial priorities to deliver an outstanding service.
Working collaboratively with suppliers and teams across Category, Customer Service, Distribution and Inventory, you'll use data and insight to optimise stock levels, improve supplier performance and drive continuous improvements across our supply chain. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who enjoys problem solving, building strong relationships and making a real impact on business performance.
Key Responsibilities
- Plan inventory to meet customer demand while balancing stock levels, supplier capacity and service targets.
- Manage supplier performance and build strong relationships to improve availability and delivery performance.
- Monitor inventory levels and identify opportunities to optimise stock holding and reduce excess inventory.
- Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to improve inventory processes and operational performance.
- Resolve supplier and inventory issues, ensuring timely and effective solutions.
- Analyse data and performance trends to identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
Requirements
- Experience within inventory planning, supply planning or supplier management.
- Good understanding of inventory management principles and supply chain operations.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data and make informed decisions.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong commercial awareness with the ability to balance customer needs and business objectives.
- A proactive, organised approach with the confidence to take ownership and drive results.
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Benefits
- A competitive salary alongside inclusion into our company bonus scheme. Our Cromwell Incentive Plan reinforces our key principle of winning as one team and sharing in our success.
- Enhanced employer pension contribution.
- 30 days annual leave entitlement including Bank Holidays – Whilst this is common amongst businesses, we also offer the opportunity to purchase additional annual leave in case you need extra days.
- Welcoming a new addition to the family is a precious time and one that we want our team members to enjoy. We support our team members by offering enhanced Maternity & Paternity pay so that you can plan for your time off with your family.
- It’s important to us that we look after the health and wellbeing of our team members and our Healthcare Cash Plan does just that! Your cash plan is funded by Cromwell and provided by our trusted partner who are one of the oldest and largest healthcare cash plan providers in the UK.
- As part of our Great Place to Work initiatives, we are pleased that our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) is available to all Cromwell team members. We recognise that it’s not always easy to balance your work, personal and family life, and that’s where the EAP can help you better manage any issues you may be experiencing.
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About Cromwell
No matter where you are in your career – or where you want to be – we’re here to create a great place to work where you can grow, perform and love what you do. At Cromwell, we’re all individuals, with unique backgrounds and personalities. But we have one thing in common: delivering exceptional service for our customers. And we do this through our purpose of Keeping Industry Working.
Cromwell has been established for over 50 years and is a supplier of industrial tools, offering an unrivalled choice of products to all industries, professions and trades. Of all the work we do, we are famous for Safety, Cutting Tools, Hand Tools and Power Tools and Abrasives. We have expertise within our technical teams who can provide audits and offer advice on how your business can improve with the help of these four key categories.
We are committed to delivering a truly customer focused and cost-effective service that successfully matches your company’s needs. Supplying the largest range available from a single source, including products from Welding and Site Maintenance to Office Supplies and Hygiene and more.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging
Our aim is to create an environment that is welcoming to all people and ensures we treat each other and customers with respect. We appreciate different and fresh ways of thinking, encouraging innovation where colleagues feel they can express their views freely, and create a working atmosphere in which everyone is able to deliver a high-quality service.
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