Planning Manager

Why Greencore? We''re a leading manufacturer of convenience food in the UK and our purpose is to make everyday taste better. We''re a vibrant, fast-paced leading food manufacturer. Employing 13,300 colleagues across 16 manufacturing units and 17 distribution depots across the UK. We supply all the UK''s food retailers with everything from Sandwiches, soups and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles and ready meals, and in FY24, we generated revenues of 1.8bn. Our vast direct-to-store (DTS) distribution network, comprising of 17 depots nationwide, enables us to make over 10,500 daily deliveries of our own chilled and frozen produce and that of third parties. Our Warrington site is also known as the Italian centre of excellence, recent expansion and investment make this site a state-of-the-art manufacturing unit! We produce high quality Italian ready meals for both Tesco and Co-Op. What you''ll be doing As a planning manager (Maternity cover) you''ll lead the team that creates production forecasts, schedules, places material orders and organises other resources that are needed to meet both customer and business targets for single or multiple manufacturing units. You''ll do this by: Lead available planning systems to convert sales forecasts into achievable production and material plans and schedules that optimally balance customer service and operational cost efficiencyProvide leadership and direction to ensure that the planning team are kept safe, engaged, focused, developed and ..... full job details .....