We are looking for an experienced Materials Planning Manager to join us on a 12-month FTC and lead a small team to optimise planning and processing of materials, to support the site production requirements.

The Materials Planning Manager is responsible for the short-term planning horizon, balancing the needs of the Factory with the inbound materials and Supplier base.

Mid and long-term forecast share is also a key requirement: in collaboration with procurement.

• Manage production plan needs; to the material schedules, that optimally balance customer service and operational cost efficiency
• Publish plans to all relevant internal/external stakeholders to ensure that supply constraints are known and managed in advance. Ensure that all stakeholders are agreed on the planned actions and the results that need to be delivered
• Monitor and maintain an active dialogue with suppliers to ensure that material requirements continuously match scheduled production plans
• Ensure the team assess and communicate the impact of predicted plan attainment on customer service and ensure that expected obsolete/over stocks are clearly communicated and understood
• Ensure the team contributes to business planning forums and maintains ongoing dialogue with the operations team to understand production challenges and builds contingency and improvements into plans and schedules
• Align and develop strong working relationships with Procurement and purchasing functions to enable full supply.
• Work with distribution providers to agree transport schedules that match product/stock availability with Supplier delivery requirements (including site-to-site shuttles and yard-shunting) to find mutually agreeable delivery windows
• Provide leadership and direction to materials team to ensure that people are engaged, focused, and delivering to their potential
• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement and optimise performance to deliver business effectiveness and cost efficiency

You may not have heard of us, but we’re sure you’ve tried our products. We’re a vibrant, fast-paced leading food manufacturer. Employing 13,000 colleagues across 16 world-class manufacturing sites and 18 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.

Here at Selby we employ a team over 750 colleagues. A site steeped in history, we are the UK’s number one manufacturer of customer private label cooking sauces and pickles. We have been serving our customers out of our Selby site since 1914.

We produce more than 160 million units per year across 600 different product lines for customers such as Morrisons, Tesco & Asda

We’re not all the same at Greencore and our differences help us to make everyday taste better for all our stakeholders. We truly put our people at the core and are proud of our diversity.

• Educated in a numeric discipline, e.g., mechanics, maths, science or with five years plus experience in FMCG
• Strong understanding of the planning process
• Awareness of end-to-end supply chain activities
• Ability to analyse, report and interpret data
• Computer literacy - advanced
• Implement and take action to achieve plans

If this sounds like you join us, grow with Greencore and be a part of driving our future success.

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits
• Holidays
• Pension up to 8% matched
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.