Senior Planner

Senior Planner 

Proud to deliver high quality products and develop a high- quality career. 

Location: Meals London - Cumberland Park Royal

Contract Type: Permanent, Full time
Days of work: Sunday- Thursday - 6.30am -3pm
Salary – Competitive - Depending on experience plus up to 10% bonus

Excellent career progression prospects across the Bakkavor group

Why join us?  

 We’re proud to offer you a career with a global leader in the fresh prepared food industry. We’re proud to give everyone the opportunity and support to develop and progress their career. To nurture talent, fuel ambition and work with resilience and purpose to achieve the highest possible standards.  

What we do.  
In London, Bakkavor Meals employs over 2,400 people across three sites and a distribution centre in the Park Royal area.  These sites specialise in making chilled ready meals, houmous dips, deli products and savoury accompaniments, and are part of Bakkavor's Meals sector which has eight factories in total in the UK.

About the role.  

 As a Senior Planner you will be responsible for the day-to-day management of the planning team and will support the planning manager in the delivery of the Business Plan & Supply Chain Strategy. This should include demand management, finite scheduling & capacity management, labour & materials forecasting and maintenance of planning systems. 

 
Job Accountabilities:

• Support the planning team with delivering a short-term accurate plan and forecast of demand, production, capacities and labour - highlighting any concerns with capacity or efficiencies
• Ensure that 100% customer service is maintained at minimum cost, both internally and externally
• 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.
• Control waste levels by challenging operational performance to drive continuous improvement initiatives.
• Confident to approach customers to align short term numbers to minimise waste or risk to service.
• Ensure planning systems are maintained including the scheduling and forecasting tools 
• 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.

About You:

• Have a minimum of 2 years planning experience within FMCG or manufacturing
• Good analytical and numerical capabilities.
• People management experience is highly desirable
• Be able to drive change and work under your own initiative - managing workload and deadlines.
• Goal oriented. Ability to deliver results against set departmental and business KPI’s.
• Forecasting experience would be advantageous.
• Good level of computer literacy, including Excel.
• Energy and desire to succeed with a can-do attitude

What you’ll receive.  
  

As an equal opportunity employer, we’re committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you.   

You’ll enjoy:  

• Personal accident Insurance  
• A stakeholder pension scheme  
• Single Private Medical

• Free independent mortgage advice  
• Employee assistance programme  
• A range of voluntary benefits   

• Holiday purchase scheme  
• Additional life assurance  
• Dental & hospital cash plans  
• Discounted tutoring for children  
• Access to financial learning tools  
• Affordable loans via your salary  
• Proud to be and loyal service awards  

• Plus, a commitment to your wellbeing that includes emotional, physical and financial support services delivered by our fantastic team of wellbeing champions  

Proud to be Bakkavor We’re proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We’re proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury’s and Waitrose. We’re driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business – come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team! 

Apply now to find out more! 

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