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Planning Manager – Greater Manchester

Employer
Silven Recruitment Limited
Location
Greater Manchester
Salary
c.£60,000 + Package
Closing date
4 Mar 2025
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Contract Type
Permanent
Function
Planning
Business Sector
Food Manufacturing

Job Details

Planning Manager – Greater Manchester

Salary: c.£60,000 + Package

 

We’re working with a leading food business who and we’re looking for an experienced Planning Manager who can lead and develop a team and, as part of the senior leadership team, play a key role in driving performance and efficiencies.

 

About the Role:

As Planning Manager, you’ll be responsible for ensuring production is able to run smoothly by balancing customer demand, inventory, and factory capacity.

This is a key role for the business and is a chance to make a real impact. Some of your responsibilities will include:

  • Coaching, mentoring, and motivating your team.
  • Creating optimised production plans to meet customer demand and maximise efficiency.
  • Managing inventory levels, ensuring raw materials and finished goods are where they need to be.
  • Working collaboratively with colleagues across the business, from production and procurement to sales and logistics.
  • Identifying and implementing new, improved ways of working, instilling a culture of continuous improvement, to streamline processes.

 

About You:

  • Demonstrable experience of leading planning teams in a large, high-volume food manufacturing environment.
  • Strong interpersonal skills, able to work with and influence internal and external stakeholders at all levels.
  • Data driven, with a proactive approach to resolving issues and improving processes.
  • Knowledge of SAP would be preferred but is not essential.

 

Ready to take the next step? Apply now!

Company

The Silven team is full of passionate, committed and personable people, who have built their careers recruiting into their specialist markets.

We’ve developed many long standing client and candidate relationships along the way; mainly because we delight in helping companies to realise their plans and in assisting candidates to advance their careers.

If you are a client or candidate seeking advice and a service based on experience and knowledge of your market, we’d love to hear from you. Contacting us could be the best thing you do today.

Company info
Website
Telephone
0845 0036872
Location
Clarence House
4 Clarence Street
Manchester
Greater Manchester
M2 4DW
GB

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