Supply Chain Analyst

A fantastic opportunity to join a well-established and growing business. �Our client is looking for an experience Supply Chain Analyst to join their growing team based in Andover.
Job Purpose:
Reporting to the Head of Supply Chain the successful applicant will have excellent attention to detail and be excellent at working with and interpreting data. �
You will be expected to be forward thinking and be capable of looking for opportunities to improve current ways of working.� Often the requirements & requests from other departments are of a critical and time dependent nature and therefore an appreciation of urgency is essential.
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The role requires the individual to work closely with the Operations, Sales & R&D teams and also within a small purchasing team, so the ability to work successfully as part of a team is imperative.
The Role:

• Analysis of stock queries, understanding the root cause and proposing corrective actions to avoid repeats.
• Reporting and Analysis of stock valuation, highlighting issues and opportunities with system accuracy and margin reporting.
• Championing stock optimisation and pushing the business to act on stock reduction opportunities.
• Management of the ECR (Engineering Change Register) process from an operational perspective, joining together R&D, Purchasing and Operations.
• Dealing with supplier phone calls and ownership of a group of products within the supply chain.
• Data entry and accurate system recording. Challenging the data to identify opportunities.
• Carry out forecasting of all finished goods and components using the tools provided and also use their skills to improve this where possible.
• Cover of production planning and purchasing in the absence of others.
• Support other areas of the business when necessary.

Skills/qualifications:

• Strong analytical skills.
• Pursues work proactively with drive and suggests ways to improve processes to fulfil the department's needs.
• Tenacity to dig into data. Finding ways of extracting data and acting on it is key to the success of the role.
• Experience of working within a fast-paced supply chain environment.
• Advanced experience of MS Office, particularly Excel. (Use of pivot tables, V-lookups, formulas).
• Drive to improve Key Performance indicator results.
• Adapts to varying work situations and is flexible in the approach to resolving challenges.
• Good spoken and written English with the ability to effectively communicate complex issues to people at all levels within the organisation.

Desirable�

• Knowledge of MRP system management.
• Previous experience in the manufacturing industry. An understanding of Bill of Materials.
• Experience with reading engineering drawings.

This is a full time onsite permanent role offering �35,000 - �40,000 (DOE) and benefits including free parking.
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Please contact Gemma Lawrence at Meridian on (phone number removed) to apply and find out more or email (url removed)
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Meridian Business Support is a recruitment specialist acting on behalf of our client as an Employment Agency for this vacancy.