Packaging and Merch 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 Packaging and Merch 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 Packaging and Merch Planning Executive to join our operations team! Here's an insight in to your day to day:

• Our products use several different types of packaging. You'll work closely with the Procurement and Production teams to understand how much of each type we need to create our products, ensuring they're always in supply 🍅.
• Create accurate plans and place timely orders to maintain target stock levels, 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 packaging, for all product range; Liaising with manufacturers as to what levels of stock they hold and subsequently placing orders for stock replenishments🏬.
• You'll communicate regularly with external stakeholders, including suppliers, manufacturers, and fulfilment houses, to ensure a smooth flow of products and to help minimise stock shortages.
• Working closely with our supplier partners and procurement team to help deliver target service levels and spot any opportunities for improvement.
• Careful monitoring of our packaging inventory, making sure that the level of stock is fit for purpose, accurate in the system and maintained at optimum target levels.
• 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 learn about the team!

What we're looking for in you

This role will best suit someone with around 1-2 years of experience working in Supply Chain, who has knowledge of planning, ordering, stock control & forecasting. We need someone who is an excellent communicator, you will be able to build strong relationships and manage our suppliers. It's also critical that you are proficient with either excel or google sheets. Keeping track of packaging and merchandise 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 Fridays - we try to finish our work by 1pm on a Friday!

🌴 30 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays

🕖 Flexible working - including up to 2 days per week at home

🥤 Free Huel to keep you going

🏖️ 2 weeks a year to work remotely from anywhere! One week in the Summer and one week at Christmas

🐾 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 Family Leave

👪 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 Ellie 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.