Primary Logistics Planner

The Recipe

Do you have planning experience within a fast-paced environment and are looking for a new challenge?

We’re excited to offer a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Planner to join our Logistics Planning team. Based at our Head Office in Bolton, this role operates on a 4 on 4 off days/nights shift rota.

With a fleet of over 900 vehicles and one of the biggest independent distribution networks in the UK, we are proud to be delivering our freshly baked products daily to over 17,000 customer stores across the UK.

Keeping our nations eggs in soldiers, You’ll be proud of keeping our trucks moving and our customers happy.

The Role

• Our Logistics planner is responsible for creating and coordinating the day-to-day transport and resource plan within our primary network, working closely with transport and manufacturing teams, ensuring compliance, and managing any in-day changes to planning. It will take someone who thrives off working within the fast-paced industry. It’s an extremely busy role, and you’ll be planning activity for more than 200 Primary drivers daily across our national distribution network. The role is pivotal in ensuring that Warburtons maintains and enhances our customer offering of having the freshest product across the UK, in full and on time.   
• Working as part of a busy and collaborative planning team, you will have a methodical and organised approach with the ability to multitask and prioritise your workload.  You will be working closely with internal bakery and manufacturing teams, ensuring compliance with the plan and managing any in-day changes to planning
• We are committed to the investment in our future, and our Logistics Team is fundamental in supporting the business objectives. You will join a forward-thinking and highly driven team who are dedicated to exceeding customer expectations. We want you to be passionate and to thrive on a challenge. You will be resilient and innovative in your thinking.
• Working throughout the UK network, you will have a great understanding of locations, routes, and the national road network. You’ll be focused on keeping our supply chain moving and our customers happy, building great relationships both internal & external, whilst providing key metrics on a daily, weekly, and period basis, reporting any issues along the way, and managing costs.

Essential Ingredients

• Excellent communication skills; influential and persuasive.
• Strong relationship-building skills; credible with internal and external contacts at all levels.
• Analytical and meticulous problem solver.
• You will have planning experience, preferably in a distribution or manufacturing business.

Extra Dough

At last and by no means yeast you will want to know what your breads worth.