Bakkavor
Senior Planner
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Salary: Competitive salary
Benefits:
- Company share save scheme
- Matched pension scheme
- Life insurance up to 4x salary
Location: Greencore Desserts Newark, Jessop Way, NG24 2ER
Ways of Working: Site Based
Hours of work: 4on 4off Days – 05:30am-17:30pm
Contract Type: Permanent
Why Greencore?
Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026, we’re one of the UK’s leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make every day taste better.
As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we’re proud to employ over 28,000 talented colleagues across 36 manufacturing sites and 21 distribution depots in the UK and the US. Together, we bring delicious food to life. Our products cover every meal occasion from breakfast through to dinner and dessert, with lunch and snacking in between. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve combined revenues of approximately £4bn.
Our extensive direct to store (DTS) network, with 17 depots across the UK, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring consumers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.
Our site in Newark, Nottinghamshire, specialises in producing a range of chilled desserts, including trifles, cream cakes, and choux pastries. The site employs over 1,800 people and operates in a fast-paced, high-volume production environment.
About the Role
As Senior Planner, you will manage the day-to-day management of the planning team for Greencore. This should include demand management, finite scheduling & capacity management, labour & materials forecasting and maintenance of planning systems.
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What you’ll be doing
- Ensure that 100% customer service is maintained at minimum cost. Ensure customer service levels are maintained internally to the warehouse and externally to customer.
- Support the planning team with delivering a short-term accurate forecast of demand, production, capacities and labour - highlighting any concerns with capacity or efficiencies.
- Communicate accurate and timely information to the business and customers. Cultivate relationships with all key external and internal stakeholders to the supply chain function.
- Determine finished goods and base inventory levels and replenishment rules minimising product and material disposals. Conduct seasonal / promotional reviews of production schemes and stock holding to optimise production activity and daily/weekly volumes.
- Control waste levels by challenging operational performance to drive continuous improvement initiatives. Analyse and report on financial impact of factory efficiencies and variances.
- Confident to approach customers to align short term numbers to minimise waste or risk to service.
- Ensure planning systems are maintained to the highest standards and represent the business on new planning system initiatives.
- Develop and retain a cohesive and effective Planning team to deliver rota’s planning cover over all manufacturing operations. Complete appraisals and PDD’s for each member.
What we’re looking for
- Good communication skills, ability to communicate effectively with team members, operations, and external customers when necessary.
- Good organisational skills, capacity to organize tasks, resources, and timelines.
- Problem solving skills, the capability to identify issues and develop effective solutions to overcome challenges.
- Good analytical and numerical capabilities.
- Well-developed communication and management skills with confidence to influence at all business levels
- High degree of confidence with IT Systems alongside strong software proficiency – specifically with Microsoft Office Suite, especially Excel.
- Flexible approach to work and hours including weekend working.
- Previous people management experience.
- Experience of working within a fast-paced organisation and has demonstrated the ability to make accurate decisions quickly.
- IT/Planning systems development experience.
- Experience of working within a manufacturing environment, not necessarily in Food.
- Previous experience in a planning / production manager / continuous improvement role.
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What you’ll get in return
- Competitive salary and job-related benefits
- Holidays
- Matched Pension Scheme
- Life insurance up to 4x salary
- Company share save scheme
- Greencore Qualifications
- Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
- Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform
- Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies
Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on-the-job training and development opportunities to further your career.
Important Notice:
Greencore and its recruitment partners never charge candidates any fees at any stage of the hiring process. Any request for payment relating to a job opportunity should be considered fraudulent.
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