Branch Planner Supervisor - 6 Month FTC

Are you a self starter? Do you have an eye for detail? Looking to take ownership and develop your career within Inventory? This is the role for you.

If you’d enjoy being part of a busy and fast paced business with great benefits, and plenty of opportunities for career progression – join us at BSS as a Inventory Branch Planner Supervisor at our Magna Park based Distribution Centre and share our success and good times with a hard-working, friendly bunch of people.

What you’ll do

You will be managing a team of 4 branch planners who are responsible for the stock across all of our 54 branches. You will build strong relationships with Branch Managers, Regional Operations Manager and Sales colleagues, ensuring the planners are working to stock availability targets and budgets. Making sure we have the right stock in the right place for our customers.

Is this you

• Supervise team members in duties and performance, providing feedback where necessary and reporting team strengths and weaknesses to management 

• Confident in overseeing and driving optimum availability whilst working within stock budgets for our branches: Utilising the replenishment systems, maintaining forecasts and safety stock / trigger levels and ensuring all orders are placed accurately and timely manner.

• You will ensure colleagues are adequately trained, motivated and developed to realise their full potential.

• Planning and implementing strategic initiatives to improve productivity, efficiency, or other performance metrics

• The ability to influence, network and build relationships is essential to your success within this role.

What’s in it for you?

You’ll be supported by some of the best training & development in the industry. Our impressive internal succession programme means, whatever it is you do with us,  it will be easy for you to learn, grow and develop across the Travis Perkins Group.

We’ll also equip you with a benefits package that grows as you grow with the company:

• Competitive performance related bonus

• Save-as-you-earn scheme

• Buy-as-you-earn scheme

• Contributory pension scheme

• Colleague discount across a variety of Group businesses including; 20% off at Wickes and 30% off at Tile Giant, plus special discounts across our Trade Merchanting businesses.

About us

BSS Industrial - we are a leading distributor of heating, pipeline, process and mechanical services equipment to the Building Services and Industrial sectors. Established over 110 years ago, we became a part of the Travis Perkins Group in 2010 and now have more than 50 BSS branches, along with a National Distribution Centre at Lutterworth in the East Midlands and a National Tube Distribution Centre in Coventry. We have a wealth of experience in our people - technical support, customer care, product engineering and design along with our market leading own brand - BOSS.