Material Planner and Production Scheduler (Beer)

Material Planner and Production Scheduler (Beer)

Location: Runcorn, England

Contract: Permanent

Closing Date: 21st October 2025

About Us

With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we're the world's leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you'll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.

Join us to create a career worth celebrating!

Join our Beer Category

Our Supply Chain and Manufacturing team are problem-solvers, sourcing, producing, and delivering our much-loved brands to delight customers around the globe. Over half of Diageo's 30,000+ people work in Supply Chain and Manufacturing. It's an intricate and sophisticated operation that's the product of logistical, manufacturing, and technical collaborations.

We operate Guinness packaging facilities at Marshalls Road in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and Runcorn, in North West England, producing canned, bottled and kegged product for Ireland, UK and export markets. Significant investment is underway at both of these locations.

This role is site based at Runcorn which is an 18 Acre site running a 24/7 Operation with 4 rotational crews. It has 2 Bottling, 2 Canning lines and 1 Kegging production line. There are 90+ SKUs with 16 different Beer/Liquid types covering producing on average 23million cases of product per annum.

About the Role

The Material Planner and Production Scheduler acts as a key link between the plan, source, make, and move functions, ensuring the seamless delivery of our supply and scheduled production plans that meet both business and customer needs.

At Diageo, we are open to supporting our employees through flexible working where possible, however, for this role, the preference would be for the successful candidate to spend the majority of their working week on site at Runcorn. This will enable close collaboration, the development of strong stakeholder relationships, and the building of meaningful connections that support effective teamwork and successful delivery of business objectives.

Success in this position will be achieved through strong partnerships and strict adherence to supply and scheduling planning processes for operations across Ireland and the UK, aligned with the objectives of the Beer Category.

Key Responsibilities will include:

• Call off materials by liaising with external European suppliers to ensure execution of short to mid-term production plans across all Beer Category material suppliers (Cans, Glass, Board, Closures, and Widgets).

• Collaborate with Procurement, Finance, and external suppliers to facilitate and reconcile supplier invoices in line with SLAs, payment terms, and legal obligations.

• Build and maintain strong relationships with key internal and external stakeholders at all levels, leveraging these connections to deliver the Beer Category strategy.

• Lead and implement dry goods inventory holding plans to control material stock levels and minimise write-off costs across all supplied markets.

• Play a leading role in running and improving the business through Global Supply Chain projects, Continuous Improvement initiatives, and Product Innovation and Renovation processes, balancing flexibility with commitments to service, cost, and quality.

• Ensure transparent, cross-functional communication of forward plans across the supply chain, including Procurement, Packaging, Brewing, and Logistics.

• Contribute to delivering excellent customer service standards to all global markets.

About You

We're looking for someone who can bring expertise, collaboration and a passion for delivering excellence within our supply chain operations.

• BSc in Supply Chain, Business Administration, or an equivalent qualification.

• APICS qualified or equivalent certification.

• Experience within supply chain planning, ideally within an FMCG environment.

• Strong knowledge and understanding of Demand and Supply Planning, Operations, Logistics and Route to Market is desirable.

• Shown stakeholder leadership skills with a successful track record of leading within a planning function.

• Excellent IT and numerical skills, with the ability to leverage systems such as SAP ECC6, SAP APO SNP, Business Warehouse and BEX Analyser.

If you don't tick every box, please don't be put off applying - we're always interested in hearing from people with different experiences and backgrounds who can bring fresh perspectives to our team.

Working with Us

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.

We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you'll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You'll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, attitudes, and more.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you!

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Client-provided location(s): Runcorn, United Kingdom

Job ID: Diageo-JR1118682

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2025-10-08T19:00:56