Planning & Materials Coordinator

We’re looking for an Planning & Materials Coordinator role to join our Inventory and Warehouse team

Based in Wishaw Offices

About Sika

Sika is a specialty chemicals company with a leading position in the development and production of systems and products for waterproofing, bonding, sealing, damping, reinforcing, and protecting in the building sector and motor vehicle industry. Sika has subsidiaries in 101 countries around the world and manufactures in over 300 factories. Its more than 27,000 employees generated annual sales of CHF 9.3 billion in 2021.

About BU/Function

We are based in Wishaw in Scotland and have a small, but multi-talented staff who are all flexible and have a great degree of product knowledge and understanding who will guide the  successful candidate and help support the development in all areas of the business.

Purpose of the Role

The successful candidate will report to the Inventory Manger and will work closely with the Production team to prepare & issue process orders to factory and assist in supporting admin processes and supplier facing requirements to enable production on plant, to meet targets in terms of stock levels, and bulk inventory control.

What’s In it for You?

The Opportunity:  

This is a great opportunity to join a forward thinking progressive company that has a global footprint with lots of career advancement opportunities. The overall objectives, responsibilities and KPIs in this role centre around ensuring that finished stock, as well as raw material stock, levels are produced on time and targets maintained.

The role and is a key role in the business for the right candidate and offers the person an opportunity to develop in a  supply chain / and also touches on logistics & transport as required The role also has the potential to develop the persons  planning skills. 

Main Key measures will include

• EHS and plant Safety – (as with all employees)
• Works Process Order release and closure controls.
• Minimising Stock Outs.
• Bulk Tanker controls and supplier / transport scheduling.
• Quarantine / rework management.

The Rewards:

You will be rewarded with a competitive salary, and a sweep of great benefits. We pride ourselves on our total reward package:

• Holiday 25 days rising to 28 days with service, plus bank holidays
• 8 to 5 Core Hours Working with some local team flexibility
• A company pension contribution of up to 10%
• Private healthcare for you, with option to add family
• Group life cover at 6x your annual salary
• Global Income Protection (PHI)
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
• Staff discount platform & Cycle to Work scheme
• Dedicated Service Awards for reaching key milestones
• Selected discounted Sika products

The Support:

You will receive, various on line learning and also on the job training from a highly skilled experienced set of individuals, and having a small team here on site in Wishaw,  the management team locally are all very supportive and hands on in terms of support.

The Future: 

Potential Career Routes: The opportunity to progress within a global company across a variety of business areas.

What we need from you?

• A willingness to adapt learn and be flexible is really important to enhance our One Sika culture. 
• An individual with a self starting /can do attitude with an ability to backfill, multi task and support where needed.  A team player  
• An aptitude for logic, reasoning and out of the box thinking,  numeric calculations as well as overall day to day task and time management.
• MS Office intermediate  (especially Excel)  
• Ideally some ERP Knowledge or understanding or at least the ability to fast learn a stock control system such as SAP