William Grant & Sons
Supply Planner
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Supply Planner
As a Supply Planner, you will play a critical role in ensuring the right products are available at the right time while balancing inventory investment and customer service expectations. Working within the Supply Chain team, you will be responsible for planning and coordinating inventory levels to achieve working capital and service level targets, while proactively mitigating supply risks and disruptions.
You will collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders across Supply Chain, Commercial, Customer Service, Demand Planning, Production, and external partners to ensure effective replenishment, smooth product launches, and the successful execution of the Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process. This is an excellent opportunity for a proactive, analytical, and collaborative supply chain professional who enjoys problem-solving in a dynamic environment.
What We Can Offer You
- Competitive salary and benefits designed to promote our employees' financial wellbeing.
- Eligibility to participate in a bonus plan.
- Generous holiday entitlement with an opportunity to ‘buy’ or ‘sell’ some holiday entitlement.
- Private Healthcare and Doctor@Hand (remote GP service).
- Participation in a defined contribution pension plan. Employees contribute either 4% or 5% of salary, the company contributes 8% or 10% depending on the employee contribution. Employee contributions can be made through salary sacrifice.
- An Employee Assistance Programme offering practical, impartial support on everyday matters ranging from medical, financial, and legal to home and family issues.
- Life Assurance cover is a multiple of eight times your annual basic salary.
- Product allocation so that you can enjoy our fantastic portfolio of brands.
- A Cycle to Work scheme allowing you to hire a bike for an agreed length of time and then snap it up for a fraction of its original value. All while making savings (at least 25%) and spreading the cost.
- Opportunity to claim up to £1,000 per year for a charity or charities for which you have raised money, volunteered your time, or personally donated.
- Learning resources to help you be your best self.
Main Responsibilities
- Manage and coordinate inventory levels to achieve agreed stock targets while minimizing excess and obsolete inventory.
- Set and maintain stock parameters, including supporting the introduction of new products and the delisting of SKUs.
- Produce and analyse inventory reports, including Days of Stock calculations and slow-moving or obsolete stock analysis, ensuring key Supply Chain KPIs are tracked and improved.
- Review and maintain safety stock levels to ensure high customer availability while meeting working capital objectives.
- Support the successful launch of new products through close collaboration with Demand Planning, Customer Service, Commercial, Planning, and NPD teams.
- Work cross-functionally with supply chain and commercial teams to achieve inventory targets, drive operational improvements, and support the S&OP process.
- Maintain agreed inventory coverage levels and manage stock reconciliations with third-party logistics providers.
- Maintain Distribution Requirements Planning (DRP) master data, create replenishment purchase orders, and manage any required amendments to the supply plan.
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Our Ideal Candidate
We are looking for a supply chain professional with strong organisational and analytical skills who can effectively manage inventory, balance competing priorities, and build strong working relationships across multiple functions.
Essential
- Experience in Supply Planning, Inventory Planning, or Supply Chain Planning.
- Strong understanding of inventory management, replenishment planning, and stock optimisation.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data, identify trends, and make informed decisions.
- Effective stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate across functions.
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- A proactive approach to problem-solving, identifying risks, and implementing effective solutions.
- High attention to detail, particularly when managing planning data, inventory records, and purchase orders.
Desirable
- Experience with DRP, ERP, or other supply chain planning tools.
- Knowledge of Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) processes would be beneficial.
- Experience supporting product launches, supply planning processes, and continuous improvement initiatives would be advantageous.
- Experience producing KPI and inventory performance reports.
This role offers an opportunity to make a real impact on supply chain performance, ensuring excellent customer service while driving inventory efficiency and continuous improvement across the business.
We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and respected. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. If you are excited about this opportunity but don't meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply as we value potential alongside experience.
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About William Grant & Sons
A HOME FOR RARE CHARACTERS
William Grant & Sons: a home where Rare Characters thrive.
We value every employee for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience, and perspectives. Every one of our colleagues has a role to play in helping us to achieve our growth ambitions.
At William Grant & Sons, our vision is to be A home where rare characters thrive. We value all colleagues for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience, and perspectives. Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We strive to create an environment where we can all be our best and bring our whole selves to work.
OUR AGILE WORKING PHILOSOPHY
Our agile working philosophy is to “Have your best work day everyday”.
Built on trust, we empower our rare characters to have their best work day every day. Where flexibility and positive working experiences help employees to feel connected and release potential across our teams.
We are open to discussing possible agile/flexible working options as part of the recruitment process.
INCLUSIVE RECRUITMENT PROCESS
Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We want to ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive.
We want to make sure that all applicants are treated equally. To support this, we will anonymise all applications during the screening stage. Details such as name, dates, and educational establishments will only be visible to the recruitment team and hiring leader once an applicant is invited to interview, these details are hidden during the screening stage. To be able to anonymise applications they all need to be in the same format. You can upload a CV but we would also ask you to complete an application form – your CV will not be visible during screening. We hope you agree that this is good use of your time to help ensure a fair recruitment process.
This vacancy is being advertised directly by William Grant & Sons. Unauthorised copying, reposting, or distribution of this advert by job boards, aggregators, or recruitment agencies is not permitted without prior written approval.
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