This is a role with genuine influence and visibility across the business. You'll challenge thinking, provide trusted recommendations and drive continuous improvement through data-led decision making. Success in this role requires someone who can balance attention to detail with a broader commercial perspective, building plans that support both operational efficiency and customer expectations.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Translate customer forecasts into effective operational plans to support peak activity periods and service delivery.
• Produce daily and weekly labour plans, ensuring resources are deployed efficiently to meet operational demands.
• Monitor forecasts, trends and operational performance, adapting plans proactively to changing business requirements.
• Deliver productivity reporting and planned-versus-actual analysis, identifying variances and driving corrective actions where required.
• Review customer forecast accuracy, highlighting risks, opportunities and variances to key stakeholders.
• Provide meaningful insight to challenge existing practices and identify opportunities to improve operational performance, productivity and cost efficiency.
• Lead weekly planning and performance reviews with Operations, People & Finance and wider site stakeholders.
• Identify staffing gaps, capacity risks and future recruitment requirements, partnering with Operational and HR teams to support workforce planning.
• Maintain and monitor site skills matrices and training plans to ensure the operation has the capability required to meet customer demands.

What We Need From You

• Proven experience within a logistics, supply chain or 3PL environment, with a strong understanding of warehouse operations and hands-on exposure to operational processes.
• Experience working with Warehouse Management Systems alongside knowledge of both closed-book and open-book contract environments.
• Strong analytical capability with the ability to interpret complex data, management information and operational metrics.
• A data-driven approach to decision-making, with the confidence to challenge assumptions and influence stakeholders using facts and evidence.
• Excellent planning, organisational and time management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and consistently deliver against deadlines.
• Advanced Excel skills, including formulas, functions, data modelling and dataset management, alongside strong proficiency across the wider Microsoft Office suite.
• Commercially minded with a strong understanding of the relationship between operational performance, customer service and cost management.
• High levels of accuracy and attention to detail, ensuring planning and reporting outputs can be relied upon to support business decisions.

What We Offer

• At Advanced, your journey begins with a warm welcome and a comprehensive onboarding experience designed to set you up for success from day one. But it doesn't stop there—we’re committed to your continuous growth, offering ongoing training and development to help you sharpen your skills and reach your full potential.
• We understand the significance of maintaining a healthy work/life balance, which is why we offer a hybrid working model for our office staff.
• We know that time to recharge is essential for your wellbeing. That’s why, in addition to your 25 days annual leave, we offer the option to purchase additional days—giving you flexibility to take the breaks you need.
• We believe that family matters, our enhanced maternity package offers six months of full pay, giving you the time and peace of mind to focus on your growing family. New dads and partners also receive two weeks full paternity pay, so you can be there for those important first moments.
• Planning for your future has never been easier—or more rewarding. Through our salary sacrifice pension scheme, meaning you pay less tax overall, while still investing in your future.
• You’ll be joining a team where collaboration, openness, and support are part of everyday life—because great work happens when people feel connected and inspired.