Senior Material Resource Planner (Supply Chain)

Location: Southport, United Kingdom; onsite role

Salary: £33,000 per annum

Company

hirify.global is a supply chain performance improvement partner that designs, makes, moves, and improves components for customer supply chains.

What you will do

• Coordinate the planning and delivery of production materials from suppliers through customer delivery.
• Manage supplier schedules, performance metrics, on-time delivery, and supply-risk escalation.
• Review production plans and customer needs to align material coverage with manufacturing activities.
• Manage stock levels, shop-floor material flows, stock adjustments, and inventory accuracy.
• Support commercial negotiations and engineering change implementation to maintain full material coverage.
• Train and coach team members, using Unipart Way tools and 3Cs root cause analysis to address failing KPIs.

Requirements

• Experience as a Material Controller or in a high-volume transactional procurement or supply chain environment.
• Strong knowledge of material planning, MRP parameters, stock control, and supplier schedule management; SAP experience is desirable.
• GCSE and A-Levels or equivalent operational/manufacturing experience are essential.
• Proven capability in data analysis, master data maintenance, and problem-solving under deadline pressure.
• Experience using continuous improvement or lean manufacturing principles.

Nice to have

• Degree-level qualification.
• SAP experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment, 37 hours per week, based in Southport.
• 33 days of holiday including bank holidays.
• Pension, life assurance, employee assistance programme, and wellbeing support.
• Flexible benefits including a cycle-to-work scheme.
• Inclusive, merit-based recruitment with reasonable adjustments available during the application and interview process.