Sales Planner - Wilshire - salary £20k :Contract for 6-12 months then perm.

Sales Planner
Wiltshire, England. 6 to 12 months Contract with a view to transfer to Permanent. You must be eligible to work in the UK. Salary C£20k. Higher for strong relevant work experience.

Our Client is part of a world-leading automation and controls group. 37 hours per week. Sales Planning is a key function to ensure that both customer demands and manufacturing requirements are fulfilled. Duties are to plan orders to meet customer demand whilst taking into account business plan and production capacity. Provide quotations to customers, prepare weekly order books and acknowledge/validate all customer orders. Control plan on MRP ensuring they are scheduled correctly. Liaison with customers, both internal & external. Excellent customer interface is essential to ensure that delivery performance is being maintained, along with co-ordination of customer requirements and material resources. Pricing and cost analysis for internal requirements and quotation for external customers are also key to the role.

Ability to negotiate and influence to build customer partnerships. Highly numerate and PC literate. Fluent communications skills, both verbal and written, along with excellent interpersonal skills and a positive, enthusiastic, confident and outgoing manner. Versatile, but with a strong attention to detail. Customer driven. Commercial awareness with a sense of organisational sensitivity. Able to operate independently and without supervision. Experience of producing customer quotations and forecast planning.

You will have a focused, mature approach, and be professional, hardworking, have an eye for detail and a good level of spoken and written English with the ability to adapt to changing situations. PC Skills, particularly on spreadsheets, Word, Lotus notes and email would be very useful.

Additional Resources Ltd is an Employment Business and an Employment Agency as defined within The Conduct of Employment Agencies & Employment Businesses Regulations 2003