Planning Assistant Job at Selby, North Yorkshire Full Time

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.

Here at Selby we employ a team over 750 colleagues. A site steeped in history, we are the UK’s number one manufacturer of customer private label cooking sauces and pickles. We have been serving our customers out of our Selby site since 1914. We produce more than 160 million units per year across 600 different product lines for customers such as Morrisons, Tesco & Asda.

What you’ll be doing

Working Hybrid – 8:30 17:00 (1 hour lunch) to support the implementation of optimum plans and schedules that deliver stock and service targets and/or procure materials / labour.

FTC – 6 months

• Support planners maintaining Material availability
• Manage risks within the plan and amend orders where possible/practical to achieve customer service and stock targets
• Share forecasts with suppliers and work with them to resolve
• Manage ongoing communication with the operations teams to ensure accurate exchange of information
• Issue all paperwork to Operations and Warehouse teams
• Monitor distribution providers’ ‘real time’ delivery performance, escalating potential OTIF failures as early as possible – both internally and to customers
• Quality of communication with distributor and Customer
• Utilise available planning systems to convert sales forecasts into achievable production and material plans and schedules that optimally balance customer service and operational cost efficiency
• Propose and implement continuous improvements in own area

What we’re looking for

We’re proud to be recognised in the Gender Equity Measure Top 100 for our commitment to gender equality.

• Experience working in a fast-paced seasonal environment
• Attention to detail skill and ability
• Can demonstrate analytical thinking
• Good communication & organisation skills
• Confident and regular user of software packages such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint

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

• Hybrid working

• Competitive salary and job related benefits

• Holidays

• Competitive matched pension contributions

• Life insurance up to 4x salary

• Company shares 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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