Lucky Saint – Supply Planner
Reporting to: Don Wheeler, Supply Planning ManagerThe Opportunity:We are looking for a Supply Planner to join the team at Lucky Saint as we continue our mission to become the defining alcohol-free beer. In this role you will be managing all aspects of supply within our network and with several partners including breweries, hauliers, packaging suppliers, warehouses and copackers.We are a team who passionately care about the brand and maintaining exceptionally high standards at all touch points of the business.
We’re interested in people who want to spearhead a revolution in the industry with us, who are curious, entrepreneurial, commercial and restless to make magic happen. Our founder, Luke Boase, launched Lucky Saint in late 2018 with an ambition to change the perception of alcohol-free beer and the drinking experience, worldwide. Since the launch of our 0.5% Superior Unfiltered Lager, Lucky Saint has received widespread attention from top industry professionals, the UK’s best operators, and the media. A day in the life in this role could start with one of the regular meetings we have with our suppliers – we’ve a range of suppliers (from the most fantastic and truly strategic, down to some smaller transactional suppliers).
A big priority for this role is to work with our brewing partners to try to get an aligned brewing and production plan and ensure the correct materials and components are in place to ensure the smooth running of our production slotsAn important part of our weekly process is putting together our replenishment plans. This could involve deciding on next week’s co-packing requirements, or more long-term brewery production planning. Part of everyday is checking our KPI’s – including stock levels across our sites, life of stock etc. We run a tight ship of weekly and monthly cycle planning, but there is always something exciting going on – maybe a promotion is exceeding plan, or we want to do more stock sampling to support the marketing team! Evaluating options and costs is where you can thrive.A faster moving part of the role is innovation planning - you’d be meeting frequently with the internal teams to be at the forefront of packaging changes and product innovation. Your last meeting may be with our finance team who you’ll work closely with to ensure our financial transactions and costs are processed effectively. This may be as straight forward as resolving any issues and queries that have arose, but also conversations around about how we can improve process and become more efficient will be high on the agenda.Salary Range: £40,000Key Responsibilities:
- Responsible for generating a 13-week replenishment plan for monthly submissions to our UK breweries
- KPI management: Balancing stocks across our sites to ensure OTIF (On Time, In Full) delivery to customers, balanced with COGS (Cost of Goods Sold) budgets and ensuring we mitigate any risks of SLOB (Slow Moving and Obsolete stocks).
- Planning supply across our network, including copackers and warehouses, including forecasting and executing all co-packing work.
- Managing procurement and replenishment planning of all packaging components required for UK production and co-packing.
- Financial management of transactions of stock and services, ensuring timely and accurate processing of invoices, accruals and accurate reporting of COGS
- Manage the monthly stock rec process aligning stocks across our warehouses and internal planning systems.
- Working closely with our UK brewery to manage and report component losses
Who you are:
- An eye for detail with the ability to prioritise in an agile way
- Solution focussed approach to problem solving
- A passion for great customer service; we want to delight our customers.
- Super organized and methodical in your approach.
- Experience of delivering through key partners and suppliers.
- Tenacious, driven and hungry to be part of Lucky Saint’s success.
- You are results orientated, think commercially and value every pound.
- You enjoy being stretched and would welcome the opportunity to be involved in different areas of a fast-growing business.
- Have a passion for working within a small, fast paced and entrepreneurial environment
- You proactively manage your own workload and also flourish being part of a team
What’s in it for you.
- Annual bonus based on company and individual performance
- Vitality Health Insurance
- 25 days holiday + 8 bank holidays
- 3% employer pension contribution, 5% optional employee contribution
- Life insurance
- Employee Assistance Program
- Share options
- 20 x Lucky Saint allowance per month!
- Unlimited Lucky Saint and 40% off food and drink at The Lucky Saint
- Flexible working
At Lucky Saint we believe that a diverse team of enthusiastic, hard-working, skilled people is pivotal to our success. Our employees help us make a difference & grow as a business and creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace starts with our recruitment process. To help on this journey, we’d like to invite you to fill out this voluntary survey so we can measure and continue to improve our DEI work. It’s completely optional and cannot and will not affect your job application in any way.
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