Materials Planning Executive

Job Description

Hey! We’re Huel and we’re pleased to meet you! 👋 We're going to start by talking about our exciting new Materials Planning Executive position, but if you'd like the quick low down on us first including our growth story then just head to the bottom of this page!

The role

Our operations team play a huge role in the success of our customers' experience, ensuring we deliver on our promise of never being out of stock 🍛. To help ensure we continue to deliver on our promise, we are looking for a new Materials Planning Executive to join our operations team! Here's an insight in to your day to day:

• You'll work with other teams to understand how much of each raw material we need to create these products, ensuring they're always in supply 🍅.
• Create accurate plans and ensure optimal stock levels within targets, making sure we're able to produce the right quantities of our products.
• You'll organise and assist with the purchasing of all types of products, for all product ranges and also trials. Being responsible for placing orders for stock replenishments to fulfil the production plan🏬.
• Assisting in organising scheduled transport and ensuring these shipments go ahead🚢.
• Developing great supplier relationships alongside Procurement, to ensure timely and accurate deliveries and providing regular forecast updates.
• We’re working with food so the shelf life of materials is super important. You’ll need to make sure that the materials stock is fit for purpose and accurate in the system 🚩.
• You’ll maintain accurate and timely wastage reports, working with the rest of the Material Planning Team to forecast any stock loss - we hate waste so the target is to keep this to the absolute bare minimum🗑️.

Not yet convinced it's the role for you? Well, then you can click 👉HERE to read a more detailed job description and meet the team!

What we're looking for in you

This role will best suit someone with either a relevant degree in Supply Chain/related field or around 1-2 years of experience working in Production Planning / Materials Planning. We need someone who is an excellent communicator. Building strong relationships is crucial to this role as you manage our suppliers, so this would suit someone with excellent people skills, who feels they can negotiate well🤝

It's critical that you are proficient with either excel or google sheets📊. Keeping track of raw material stock levels and where it is needed for production is a SUPER important part in the effectiveness of our supply chain and it forms the basis of a lot of this role.

What do we offer in return?

We have a high-performance culture which is balanced evenly with world-class well-being initiatives and benefits that are tastier than our Salted Caramel Black Edition (and trust us, that’s saying something!)

⏰ Flexible Friday – We aim to finish early on a Friday when all our work is completed for a longer weekend

🌴 30 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays

🕖 Hybrid working - We spend Mondays and Thursdays in the office together, plus one additional office day of your choice. The remaining two days can be worked from home.

🥤 Free Huel to keep you going

🐾 Dog friendly. If you've seen Daddy Day Care the movie, that's basically HQ but for doggo's!

🙋 Paid Volunteering Days

🏋️ Free on-site gym with free classes, and we will give you your own nutrition plan

🧠 Free 1-on-1 therapy provided by Self-Space.

🏥 Private Medical and Health insurance for you and your loved ones, including free life insurance covering up to 4x your salary

⚡ Electric Car Scheme with onsite charging

🚴Cycle to Work Scheme

🤰 Enhanced Maternity Pay

👪 Workplace Nursery Scheme

🎓 Huel Academy

🎉 Quarterly events to celebrate success - Have you heard about Huelchella?

So what next?

If this sounds like the right opportunity for you, then we’d love to hear from you! Click on apply to this job to send us your CV and cover letter and Evie from our talent team will be in touch with you.

We are Hueligans

We're all made up of our Huel DNA, but what makes us unique is our individual differences. We've created a culture of belonging and we celebrate the diversity our Hueligans add to our teams. We encourage authenticity, different views, and new ideas to enable us to create products that our customers around the world enjoy and love. Read more about our culture here.