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 & Co-Op.

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 efficiency
• Provide leadership and direction to ensure that the planning team are kept safe, engaged, focused, developed and delivering to their potential
• Construct budgets and manage spend to ensure business effectiveness and cost efficiency
• Work with commercial and supply chain colleagues to build accurate sales forecasts and the critical information needed for effective standard operating procedure performance
• Liaise with customers and contribute to cross functional business forums e.g. NPD process, working with the commercial team, customers and suppliers to support joint business planning activities
• Monitor adherence to policy, practice, legal and customer standards, developing and implementing plans to maximise compliance and ensure the team is always audit ready