Materials Scheduler

Materials Scheduler

Salary: £28,500 - £34,500 depending on experience, plus annual bonus and benefits listed below

Function: Supply Chain – Customer Service, Logistics & Planning

Location: Hereford Ciderie

Contract: Permanent

Latest closing date: 17th August 2026. Please note, that we may close vacancies early when we receive significant numbers of applications, so don’t delay!

What’s the role? As the Materials Scheduler, you will be reporting to the Site Scheduling Manager and supporting the Scheduling team to deliver a comprehensive production planning service. This means relying on your experience of scheduling production material deliveries for Cider production (preferably), Process and Packaging in a manner that meets supplier order lead-times, HEINEKEN Procurement criteria and allows dependent production activity to hit or exceed Heineken’s Conformance to Schedule targets

It’s all about you and the scheduling team hitting the ‘sweet spot’ between material availability, storage space, and working capital value.

With our Heineken Behaviours as your guidelines, we’d love you to take our very complex supply planning process and use your analytical and problem-solving skills to “Keep It Simple”! This means constantly managing information flows with stakeholders, using your listening, and communications skills to build strong relationships across functions. These relationships will result in more open conversations when we are all under pressure, allowing you to be an effective key driver in the scheduling process.

At Heineken we promote and support Smarter Working, in this role there is some flexibility required to meet the needs of the various departments it supports.

What we are looking for? We are always looking to build on our processes and bringing the outside in! We are looking for someone with advanced spreadsheet skills and experience in using INFOR AS & SAP (APO). Previous experience in Liquid Planning, Manufacturing and or Supply Chain Operations (e.g. Purchasing, Technical or Logistics) would be beneficial, especially within a similar complex supply chain environment.

Our Benefits: In addition to your base salary, you’ll also receive:

• Annual bonus

• Company funded Private Medical Healthcare

• Double matched pension contributions (up to 10%)

• 35 days holiday (with the opportunity to buy/sell)

• A monthly case of our delicious ciders and beers!

• Exciting opportunities to develop your career

You’ll also get the opportunity to get involved with one of our colleague networks where groups of colleagues from all over the business work together to ensure we’re always working towards being a diverse and inclusive company.

The application If you like what you’ve read and want to explore this opportunity further, please apply before the closing date listed at the top of the advert.

Please note, we may close vacancies early where we receive significant numbers of applications, so don’t delay!

If you need any adjustments made to support your application, for example if you require information in different formats, or if you have any accessibility issues, then we’re more than happy to review our processes – please feel free to get in touch with us as [email protected].

In all likelihood the ideal candidate for this role won’t meet every single requirement in this advert, in fact we all need the opportunity to grow and develop in role. We understand some applicants are less likely to apply to jobs unless they feel they meet every single qualification. The team at HEINEKEN would encourage you to submit an application if the advert has piqued your interest rather than ruling yourself out based on any self-limiting beliefs. You never know, you may be exactly what we’re looking for!

We’ve 150 years of brewing history and are proud of this legacy. Yet we’re sure our best days are ahead of us. Every one of our colleagues has a role to play as we dream big, set bold ambitions and push the boundaries. We support colleagues on this journey with development opportunities and unique experiences to help them reach their full potential.

Apply today to discover Your Future, Untapped.