Location: County TyroneJob type: Full-time permanentIndustry: Manufacturing/Engineering
What’s in it for you?
- Pension – Employer 7% and employee min of 5% (salary sacrifice scheme)
- Discretionary bonus scheme 10% based on business performance
- Group Income Protection – up to 50% of Salary if an employee cannot work due to long term disability (there will be a policy on this and rules on when it kicks in)
- Life Assurance – 6 times salary
- Total of 33 days – 25 days holidays + 8 stat days
Role Overview
Vickerstock are working in partnership with a major manufacturing business on the appointment of a Global Demand & Inventory Planner. This is a full-time, permanent position offering the opportunity to play a key role in ensuring material availability, supporting production, and improving inventory performance across the business.
The successful candidate will be highly data-focused, confident working with Excel, and experienced in using an MRP and/or ERP system to turn demand and stock data into practical planning actions.
Global Demand & Inventory Planner – Key Responsibilities:
- Monitor and maintain appropriate inventory levels across raw materials, work-in-progress, and finished goods.
- Take full ownership of the demand profiling and inventory strategy for a highly complex, global distribution network.
- Manage, analyse, and optimise demand profiles across a vast portfolio of 30,000 + items.
- Coordinate closely with global aftermarket warehouses to balance stock availability, minimise lead times, and optimise inventory health across international regions.
- Leverage advanced ERP capabilities to translate complex global market forecasts into precise replenishment plans.
- Analyse demand, stock, and supply data to identify potential shortages, excess stock, slow-moving inventory, and obsolescence risks.
- Create replenishment plans and purchase recommendations in line with demand forecasts, lead times, inventory targets, and production requirements.
- Work closely with Procurement and suppliers to ensure continuity of supply and proactively manage material availability issues.
- Support Production Planning by ensuring materials are available to meet production schedules and customer requirements.
- Produce regular inventory reports and dashboards covering stock levels, inventory turns, service performance, aged stock, and planning risks.
- Investigate inventory discrepancies, supporting cycle counts, stock reconciliations, and inventory accuracy initiatives.
- Contribute to S&OP, demand planning, capacity planning, and wider continuous-improvement activity.
- Identify opportunities to improve inventory processes, reporting, system utilisation, and planning accuracy.
- Communicate inventory risks, root causes, and proposed actions clearly to internal stakeholders.
What you will need to succeed as Global Demand & Inventory Planner:
- Direct experience managing inventory or demand profiles for a large-scale portfolio
- Possess deep analytical skills within an enterprise ERP system to manipulate, interpret, and act on large and complex demand data sets.
- Previous experience in an inventory planning, materials planning, supply planning, production planning, or
- Advanced Excel skills, including the ability to work with large data sets, lookups, pivot tables, and reporting tools.
- A strong understanding of inventory principles, including stock turns, safety stock, lead times, service levels, and obsolete or slow-moving stock.
Desirable
- Demonstrated experience managing or collaborating with a network of global aftermarket warehouses or international distribution centres.
For a confidential conversation regarding this vacancy, please apply via the link provided or contact Michael Irwin, Senior Recruitment Consultant – Procurement & Supply Chain.
Skills:inventory planner demand planner erp mrp
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