Supply Chain Professional, Supply Planning
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Location:Milton Keynes main site, travel to this site required. Hybrid, 3 days together 2 wherever
Why this job matters
Join a dynamic team at the heart of EE & BT’s operations, where data meets strategy and supply meets demand. Our Forecast & Supply Management function is the vital link between the Supply Chain and the wider business—driving performance, enabling commercial success, and ensuring our customers get the devices they want, when they want them.
You will join a compact, centralised supply chain team (Milton Keynes preferred) and work closely with internal stakeholders across procurement, logistics and commercial teams as well as external suppliers. The role offers broad exposure across product portfolios, strong stakeholder engagement, and clear opportunities to develop your skills and progress within the wider business.
You’ll play a key role in delivering customer satisfaction by ensuring optimal product availability across EE & BT’s device range
You’ll lead the weekly supply planning cycle, ensuring timely, accurate reporting and actionable insights
Your work will directly influence commercial success, operational efficiency, and customer experience
What You’ll Be Doing
- Ownership and management of weekly Collaborative Planning, Forecasting & Replenishment calls with key vendors; Liaison on delivery slots with details including time, date and volume
- Management of a portfolio of products through the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process including creating/amending PO’s in SAP and ASC
- Management of IMEI data file accuracy
- Liaison on order confirmations with OEM's and a point of escalation for delivery issues with the warehouse
- Responsible for ensuring warehouse and therefore retail availability for all suppliers managed
- To manage the level of target days of stock holding for a product via specific characteristics for those products managed
- Multi-functional support – provide support to the commercial, accounts payable, deployment, pricing, propositions ranging, care and quality teams.
- To support/chair Invoice resolution calls, Supplier Forum meetings, attend pricing meetings and manage business processes such as Business Continuity Planning
- Management of Vendor performance – responsible for OTIF reporting each quarter and presenting this to them via quarterly reviews and other key measures flexibility, collaboration etc.
- Support implementation of new initiatives / suppliers / projects/ alignment of processes driving new ways of working that improve efficiency eg EDI embedding of new suppliers and planning efficiencies.
- Excellent interpersonal, relationship and influencing skills
- Planning and organising skills
- Significant proven experience of a supply planning environment/FMCG
- Ideally Degree level education
- Understanding of the UK Mobile sector
- Ideally SAP and ASC knowledge
- Supply Chain Planning experience
- CIPS a bonus
- 10% on target bonus
- EE Pension scheme, minimum 5% Employee contribution, EE contribution 10%
- From January 2025, equal family leave: receive 18 weeks at full pay, 8 weeks at half pay and 26 weeks at the statutory rate. It’s for all parents, no matter how your family is made up.
- Enhanced women’s health support: including help with menopause symptoms, cancer screenings, period care and more.
- 25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service
- 24/7 private virtual GP appointments for UK colleagues
- 2 weeks carer’s leave
- World-class training and development opportunities
- Option to join EE Shares Saving schemes.
We’re a global leader for secure connectivity and collaboration platforms for businesses of all shapes and sizes, from big household names and government departments, right through to sole traders and new start-ups. But it’s not just the technology that matters, it’s what it can do to help them build stronger, smarter, more secure businesses.
We value diversity and inclusion and believe in making a positive impact. We connect for good by championing digital inclusion and equipping people, businesses, and communities with digital skills to thrive.
As a member of our team, you will be part of an organisation that celebrates difference, fosters innovation and provides you with opportunities to be your best. With millions of businesses relying on us daily, joining BT means you can be part of a diverse and multi-skilled team that makes a significant impact to society.
a Few Points To Note
Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you’re a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.
We will also offer reasonable adjustments for the selection process if required, so please do not hesitate to inform us.
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- Location:
- Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom
- Salary:
- £60,000 - £80,000
- Job Type:
- FullTime
- Category:
- Management & Operations