About The Role With a manufacturing operation as fast paced and complex as ours, it's key we have a strong planning team who are on the ball and are able to keep up to the demands of the site. It's our Planning Specialists who will generate the medium to long term production plan for our Manufacturing sites to deliver outstanding product availability for our customers.
Reporting into the Manufacturing Planning Manager and based at our Thrapston Manufacturing site you will be responsible for the end to end planning process for our produce sites and also be responsible for:
Utilising all available information and tools to help maximise the end to end profit of the manufacturing process.
Supporting the category to plan and coordinate delivery of raw material including packaging & finished goods in line with customer requirements.
Build strong relationships with all internal stakeholders, external parties
Understand end to end supply chain and financial implications.
Building knowledge of product and seasonal calendars.
Weekend Cover (Shared Rota) can be remote
As well as the ability to work at pace, with a demonstrable background and experience in manufacturing planning you will also need to have:
Experience in a similar manufacturing planning role within a manufacturing environment (preferably within a food/FMCG environment)
Proficient in forecasting, planning and data analytical skills
Demonstrable experience of using planning software systems
Experience of root cause analysis
com, which means preparing everything from apples, nuts, seeds, tomatoes, pears, citrus, blueberries, grapes and kiwis - all to help #MakeGoodThingsHappen.
Our team of colleagues work over a 24/7 operation to get cases of fresh food ready for our stores and Morrisons.We host regular seasonal events and you’ll often find our suppliers on site sharing details of their latest product. We’re also committed to fundraising for our current charity partner.
15% colleague discount in our stores and online, plus an additional 10% card for a friend or family members (subject to fair usage)
~ Generous holiday entitlement
~ Flexible working hours
~ Company pension contributions
~ Free parking onsite
~ A range of family friendly policies including 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave along with neonatal and fertility leave