Production 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 Production 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

Huel has an excellent reputation for the highest standards of customer service - and being able to service our customers all over the world is crucial to our continued success. As part of our growth plans, we’re looking for a Production Planning Executive to join our Operations team & be based in Leipzip, Germany as a finished goods production planner for our Ready-to-Drink (RTD) category who is comfortable in a phenomenally fast-paced, high-growth, entrepreneurial environment.

You’ll play a crucial part in the success of Huel and our customers' experience: you’ll be responsible for the forecasting, material availability and production of our RTD products from start to finish, ensuring every day runs as smoothly as possible whilst keeping our stock levels under tight control. Taking ownership of the relationships between Huel and its external manufacturers across Europe (this includes frequent travel✈️), using strong and effective communication skills, you’ll foster and maintain positive relationships with these partners to ensure are targets are hit 🎯.

You’ll make sure the production plans you create to achieve our business requirements are followed, understood and that our high standards are being met by our growing list of manufacturing partners. You'll also constantly be monitoring changing forecasts and planning effectively, using our ERP systems to make sure we can continue to provide our stock to our constantly growing customer base around the globe 🌎!

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

We’re looking for someone who can hit the ground running, quickly adding value to a quickly growing area of our business. With that in mind, ideally you’ll have around 2 years proven experience in supply chain, preferably in production planning ⚙️.

Hopefully with this experience, you’ll have developed really strong communication skills, where you can relay complex but critical information to different parties throughout our supply chain and really effective relationship management skills to make sure we can get the best out of our partners 🤝.

Alongside these important people skills, we will need you to be really comfortable with numbers and data, to make sure we can effectively plan and coordinate our stock and production at all time to meet our business requirements, so experience with excel, production planning systems and ERP systems is also really important 📊.

What do we offer in return?

And in return for all of your hard work and team playing, you can expect benefits that are tastier than our Salted Caramel Black Edition (and trust us, that’s saying something!)

⏰ 4 and a half day working week - We finish at 1pm on a Friday!

🥤 Free Huel to keep you going

🌴 30 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays

🕖 Flexible working hours

🏋️ Monthly gym membership contribution and we will give you your own nutrition plan for free!

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

🤰 Enhanced Family Leave

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

🎓 Huel Academy

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.

All about Huel

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.