Business Planning Manager

Business Planning Manager – Greencore Spalding Meals

Salary: Competitive salary

Benefits: Company share save scheme, Competitive matched pension contribution, Life insurance up to 4x salary

Location: Spalding, Greencore Spalding Meals, West Marsh Road, PE11 2BB

Ways of Working: Site based

Hours of work: Monday to Friday 08:30am-17:00 (with flex as per business needs)

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 Spalding is a vibrant hub where over 1,470 colleagues bring handcrafted sandwich wraps, salads, dips, soups, sauces, and mayonnaise to life across three manufacturing facilities and a distribution centre.

What you’ll be doing

We are recruiting a Business Planning Manager with responsibility for Planning across the three factories on the Spalding site.  This is a strategic role requiring the ability to influence senior stakeholders to deliver service and drive Business performance whilst being capable of strengthening Planning processes and systems to improve efficiency.
 
Role Accountabilities

• Steer and deliver the Planning strategy aligned to the Business objectives.
• To lead the strengthening and improvement of Planning systems and processes.
• Lead and manage site Planning teams to deliver robust, optimised operational plans.
• Providing insight and analysis for the business to base long term decisions on, including capacity and contingency plans.
• Responsibility for strategic workforce planning across site.
• Understanding of the external market and driving joint initiatives with customers.

 
What we’re looking for

• Planning expert for a Business.
• Proven success and passion for driving change within an FMCG Business.
• Problem-solving skills with the ability to prioritise and react to tight timescales.
• Ability to influence key people and customers within the Business and externally.
• Understands chilled food manufacturing & supply chain.
• Experience of managing and coaching planning teams.
• Understands how to drive performance and engagement.

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

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

What you’ll get in return

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits
• Holidays
• Competitive matched pension contribution
• 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.

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