Manufacturing Manager - Planning and Warehousing

About The Role
Our Planning/ Warehousing Managers have a big job. Our factories are fast paced, highly demanding and ever-changing. It's their job to own the delivery of Production Planning, Raw Material, Packaging, and purchase order management processes for the site. Reporting into the Site Manager you will also be responsible for the delivery and understanding of the supply of product into our customers always maximising the profit whilst demonstrating market leader behaviours. 

Leading a team of Planners you will also be accountable for:
Delivery of the sites planning KPI’S and planned service levels
Delivery and compliance of attendance, forecast variance and input of Supply and conformance to plan
Delivery of KPI’S to all stakeholders and ensuring that these are understood and drive action to improve either service to our customer or profits to the end to end business
Delivery and development of key meetings with Supply chain/Operations and trading on a daily/weekly basis
Developing and Coaching the team to drive planning process forward and drive improvements via the team
Ensure that all forecasts are relevant and challenged for long term process and short term plan are fit for delivering the customer service and financial targets
Establish and maintain full set of Standard Operating Procedures for the planning team with Measures

About You
As well as strong leadership skills you will also have:
Worked in Supply Chain or as a Manufacturing/ Planning Manager or equivalent, within a fast paced manufacturing environment, ideally within food manufacturing
Strong influencing skills and the ability to build and maintain strong relationships across teams
Experience would be advantageous and you will be experienced in using a planning database with strong IT skills, particularly Excel
Demonstrable experience of delivering strong customer service with the ability to make challenging decisions to ensure consistency with service to our customers
A proven track record of improving planning process via understanding industry best practices and keeping up to date with this 
A track record of implementing and improving planning processes and systems to improve service within a Manufacturing to Retail operation is highly desirable
Great leadership skills ensuring your team are striving to exceed expectations, encourage collaborative working, developing talent within your team and creating talent progression maps for future team and site stabilityIn return for your hard work we will offer you:

Six weeks holiday (including bank holidays)
15% discount in our stores available from the day you join us 
Additional 10% discount More Card for a friend or family member
Career progression and development opportunities
Subsidised staff canteen 
Free parking
Market leading pension and life assurance
Healthcare/Well-being benefits including Aviva Digital GP
Morrisons MyPerks with discounts at high street shops, cinemas and gyms, and lots more
Long Service Awards 
Optional Payroll charity donations 
Enhanced Family/maternity/parental leave

About The Company
From a Bradford market stall to the UK’s 4th largest supermarket chain and the UK's 2nd largest fresh food manufacturer. 

We are proud to be the Yorkshire food retailer serving customers across the UK at just under 500 stores and an online home delivery service. Our 18 manufacturing sites provide our customers with the freshest produce from flowers, fish and veg to burgers and bread, all delivered to our stores via our 6 distribution sites by our 2,000 strong fleet. 

Every week, 11 million customers pass through our doors and over 110,000 colleagues across the business work hard each day to deliver great service to them. We cover more than 11 million households with our (url removed) service. With competitive, permanently low prices we are committed to helping our customers save money every day.

We are foodmakers and shopkeepers and #wemakemorrisons.

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