Key accountabilities

• Coordination of production planning activities across the business and throughout the supply chain in order to ensure effective implementation, and on-time delivery of the company’s titles
• Liaison and communication with suppliers and customers across the business and externally, ensuring all communication streams are accurate, effective and timely
• Support the planning arrangements for both our newspaper and magazine titles
• Performance monitoring, management and reporting
• Contingency planning and modelling
• Project management

Key skills

• Must be clear thinking, have a high degree of initiative, an excellent eye for detail and the ability to produce consistently accurate work to the highest standard
• Will need to be reliable, flexible and able to work as part of a team in a pressured environment - often to very tight deadlines
• Will have proven experience in complex planning operations, preferably production focussed, from the planning stages to delivery
• Ideally, will have a good understanding of the general newspaper or magazine business, or similar FMCG business, and supply chain operations experience
• Will need excellent analytical, planning and organisation skills
• Will require excellent administrative skills and be able to communicate effectively and manage stakeholders at all levels
• Will require excellent influencing skills, be able to work co-operatively across the business and demonstrate sound operational judgement and decision making