At Warburtons, family is at the heart of our business. Five generations'​ worth of expertise that goes into making our bakery products allows us to continue a tradition of baking inherited over the past 141 years.

Warburtons is the largest bakery brand in the UK, but that doesn't allow us to rest on our laurels. We are pioneers of the industry and ambitious market leaders, always seeking to challenge ourselves and convention. It is part of our philosophy to provide honest good sense on issues of health and well-being, helping the whole family to enjoy our products as part of a healthy, balanced diet, through a range of products to suit all meal occasions, lifestyles and tastes.

Job Title:    National Production Planner

Contract:    Permanent   

Location:    Bolton Head Office

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

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. The Recipe  

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.

About Us  

Did you know Warburtons began in 1876 as a small family-owned shop in Bolton? Now, five generations later, Warburtons operates 11 bakeries that produce over 16 million fresh products every week, delivering to 19,000 stores across the UK daily.

Extra Dough  

You’ll 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   

At Warburtons we aim to respect and value difference, creating an inclusive workplace that values diversity.  We value all protected characteristics and more importantly, look to have an environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work and be themselves