Materials Planner
AB Neo
Date: 3 weeks ago
City: Peterborough
Contract type: Full time
The Role & Key Responsibilities
Job Title: Materials Planner
Location: Peterborough, UK
Contract and Shift details: Permanent, Monday – Friday – 08:30 – 17:00 (Tuesday’s & Wednesdays in the Peterborough office – rest of the week work from home)
Are You
About The Role
As a Raw Material Planning Controlleryour primary responsibility will be ensuring the timely, efficient, and cost-effective supply of raw materials to manufacturing sites. This role involves planning, coordinating with suppliers and hauliers, and working closely with key stakeholders to support production and meet operational requirements.
You Will Be Responsible For
Not Specified
About The Company
Rewarding your passion
When you join us, you'll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits – these are just some of the ways we reward you - from day one.
About Us
ABN is the UK’s number one animal feed business, serving pig and poultry producers across the UK. These range from large corporate customers through to family-owned farm enterprises. We service these customers with feed, nutrition, advice, and related services.
We’re part of AB Agri, the agricultural division of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’re passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry. What sets us apart is how we delight our customers - and that’s because of great people like you. People with different life experiences who share common values. Together we’re building a fair, innovative and inclusive culture.
As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone so if you need any additional support (like alternative formats for your application, bringing a support dog to the offices, a sign language interpreter - or anything else) just let us know.
Application Notes
We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we’d love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can – it will only take a few minutes.
When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive – or show us areas we can improve. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions and this won’t affect your application.
Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.
Agencies and media sales
AB Agri group politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don’t accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.
Apply
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Job Title: Materials Planner
Location: Peterborough, UK
Contract and Shift details: Permanent, Monday – Friday – 08:30 – 17:00 (Tuesday’s & Wednesdays in the Peterborough office – rest of the week work from home)
Are You
- Do you have an exceptional eye for detail and a commitment to delivering accurate high-quality work?
- Are you a natural problem-solver who enjoys tackling challenges and finding solutions?
- Can you stay calm, composed, and focused even in fast-paced or high-pressure situations?
About The Role
As a Raw Material Planning Controlleryour primary responsibility will be ensuring the timely, efficient, and cost-effective supply of raw materials to manufacturing sites. This role involves planning, coordinating with suppliers and hauliers, and working closely with key stakeholders to support production and meet operational requirements.
You Will Be Responsible For
- Plan the supply of raw materials to meet production demands, stock levels, and capacity information.
- Collaborate with suppliers and hauliers to arrange deliveries, manage exceptions, and build positive working relationships.
- Work with Procurement to manage purchase contract call-offs and maintain visibility of significant changes in requirements.
- Resolve supplier invoice queries in conjunction with the Central Finance team to minimize payment issues.
- Forge good relationships with manufacturing sites, providing quick responses to changing operational needs.
- Challenge stock variances and work with manufacturing sites to ensure effective stock management.
- Continuously seek process improvements and collaborate with stakeholders to enhance efficiency.
- Great administrative skills, with the ability to organise and manage multiple tasks efficiently while ensuring accuracy and attention to detail.
- A good understanding of production processes and inventory management
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to utilise spreadsheets and complex operating systems (Essential).
- Proven ability to manage third-party suppliers and hauliers.
- Hybrid role with at least two days per week in the Peterborough office (Tuesday mandatory).
- On-call requirements: Up to 8 weekends per year – Saturday & Sundays –08:00 – 16:00 Saturdays & 08:00 – 14:00 Sundays
- Occasional travel to manufacturing sites as required, with a valid driving license being essential.
Not Specified
About The Company
Rewarding your passion
When you join us, you'll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits – these are just some of the ways we reward you - from day one.
About Us
ABN is the UK’s number one animal feed business, serving pig and poultry producers across the UK. These range from large corporate customers through to family-owned farm enterprises. We service these customers with feed, nutrition, advice, and related services.
We’re part of AB Agri, the agricultural division of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’re passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry. What sets us apart is how we delight our customers - and that’s because of great people like you. People with different life experiences who share common values. Together we’re building a fair, innovative and inclusive culture.
As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone so if you need any additional support (like alternative formats for your application, bringing a support dog to the offices, a sign language interpreter - or anything else) just let us know.
Application Notes
We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we’d love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can – it will only take a few minutes.
When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive – or show us areas we can improve. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions and this won’t affect your application.
Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.
Agencies and media sales
AB Agri group politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don’t accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.
Apply
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