Title: National Production Planner
Function: Manufacturing
Location: Bolton Head Office    
Salary: Competitive

Are you a National Production Planner and looking for a new challenge within our manufacturing team?

The Recipe

The task at hand is to develop national production schedules categorised through the integrated production planning system (IPP). The responsibility includes creating a detailed Gannt for days 2-10, hourly-based schedules, and days 12-42 daily schedules. Ensuring order fulfilment is crucial by effectively planning, scheduling, and executing production requirements in collaboration with key site manufacturing contacts, site dispatch contacts, customer forecasting, inbound materials planning, and Primary Distribution.

The Role

You'll create, deliver, and communicate an effective weekly forecasted manufacturing plan aligned with company guidelines, as well as creating a daily schedule plan for manufacturing that aligns with company guidelines. You'll be collaborating with the Manufacturing Planning team, Manufacturing Sites and Primary Distribution to monitor the execution of the plan with intervention when appropriate to ensure optimisation of order fulfilment, whilst effective communications are maintained with key contacts (Commercial team, Primary Distribution, Operations). You'll be responsible for generating and distributing any business-required reports with drive and enthusiasm to consistently enhance oneself or one's work through learning, innovation, and refinement.

Essential Ingredients

• Excellent IT skills include SAP supply planning capability, expert-level spreadsheet capability, pivot tables, lookups, etc. 
• Knowledge of Production processes, including maintenance/changeover/labour constraints. Experience managing capacity in a multi-site, multi-product group organisation. Understanding/appreciation of best practice manufacturing planning approaches, preferably in a daily fresh manufacturing environment.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Understand your responsibilities to treat others fairly and equally.
• Excellent communication skills, including articulate, persuasive, and strong influencing skills, can drive change in a multi-site manufacturing environment.
• Excellent relationship builder establishes credibility with internal and external contacts at all levels.

Extra Dough

You will want to know what your bread is worth:
 

• Competitive Salary
• A slice of the annual profits (discretionary profit share)
• Family time is important to us, and we know it will be to you, so you’ll have 5 weeks holiday and bank holidays with the opportunity to buy an additional 5 days each year
• Award winning pension scheme 
• Products you will love along with deals and discounts for you and the family through our Extra Dough website
• Support for your health and wellbeing, access to free physiotherapy, 24/7 access to a confidential helpline for practical advice and a comprehensive occupational health service 

We respect and value difference. We look to create an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. Companies that are diverse in age, gender identity, race, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity, or any other aspect which makes them unique, are proven to be better companies. More importantly, creating an environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work, is the right thing to do.