Supply Planner

**Description**:

- Great People Work Here._

Twinings & Co has a proud history spanning over 300 years and operates on a global scale. With strong brand positioning we are viewed as a market leader in our field. The Australian operations continue to enjoy a positive growth trajectory. We are a high performing business that is focused on employing the best talent in the market to deliver on the business' clear vision for success.

We have an exciting opportunity to join the Supply Chain team on a 12 month contact as a Supply Planner. Reporting to the Supply Chain Analyst, the Supply Planner is responsible for inventory management & planning, ensuring the availability of finished goods & materials to meet the aligned demand plan and budgeted inventory level targets. This includes ordering of imported finished goods, locally manufactured goods & materials required for our local plant while collecting and distributing information to suppliers and internal stakeholders through regular forecasts and reporting.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Own the supply planning cycle utilising MRP & action where required, to ensure inventory availability
- Generate, review and maintain Production Orders (PRO), Purchase Orders (PO) & Transfer Orders (TO) in line with MRP suggestions
- Reporting and controlling on Out of Stock, Overstocks, MLOR, Damages, Quarantine & SLOB in support of optimum inventory levels management
- Production planning within capacity & requirements constraints
- Identify supply risks based on demand plan to enable corrective actions with Demand Planning, Customer Service & Sales
- Co-ordinate any external manufacturing requirements liaising with nominated co-packers.
- Liaise with 3PL ensuring data, stock integrity and accuracy
- Monitor & resolve any ERP interface errors caused by data mis-alignments

**Skills, Knowledge and Expertise**:

- Solid experience in Supply planning and managing the end-to-end supply cycle with demonstrated experience using ERP
- Supply Chain qualifications and/or experience working in FMCG will be highly desirable
- Strong interpersonal skills with ability to build positive rapport with cross functional and external stakeholders
- Process driven with strong analytical skills to be able to identify inaccuracies in reporting
- Excellent communication skills with ability to escalate issues when required
- Strong tenacity and resilience with ability to work under pressure in a continuously changing supply chain environment

**Benefits**:

- Additional 1% Superannuation
- Flexible / Hybrid working options
- Birthday Day Leave
- Discounted Twinings Co products

**About Twinings**:
Twinings has become one of the world's most loved tea companies over its 300-year history because we never stop learning, never stop experimenting and never stop inventing. We are passionate about tea from bud to cup and have been working with some of our tea estates around the world since the early 18th Century.

More than 300 years later, the passion for tea is still here - and so are we We still sell tea from Thomas's shop, and we still work hard to bring the most exciting new blends to tea lovers around the world. Now, we have over 500 varieties and our teas are cherished all over the world. Our expert master blenders taste more than 3,000 cups of tea every week. So you can be sure the next cup you taste will be every bit as good as the one yesterday or the day before.

**How we feel about Diversity & Inclusion**

TwiningsOvo is committed to bringing together humans from different backgrounds and perspectives, providing employees with a safe and welcoming work environment free of discrimination and harassment. We seek to create a diverse & inclusive environment where everyone can thrive, feel a sense of belonging, and do impactful work together. As an equal opportunity employer, we prohibit any unlawful discrimination against a job applicant on the basis of their race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, family or parental status, disability, age or any other status protected by law and are committed to going above and beyond in fostering diversity across our workplace.

Applicants may be entitled to reasonable adjustments under the terms of the Equality Act. A reasonable adjustment is a change in the way things are typically done which will ensure an equal employment opportunity.