Job Description

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.

We are looking for a supply chain specialist to join us on an FTC until September 2027 to lead and oversea the planning team improvement activities in the hope of optimising effectiveness, reducing costs and boost quality.

What you'll be doing

As a Process Excellence Manager, you will:

* Create robust plans for improvement delivery, optimising needs and ensuring the right resources are in place through managing improvement activities and their effectiveness.

* Ensure consistency and alignment in improvement plans of planning processes to deliver clear capability improvements.

* Support monthly business and weekly tactical planning processes with planning managers and teams across the entire team to ensure decisions can be made on the improvement plans

* Lead and project manage people, process, data and systems improvement initiatives by using improvement methods for promoting value and performance, including defining performance criteria and measures for optimised planning processes.

* Ensure effective and successful adoption of new processes and standards through quality change management, stakeholder management and communication.

* Ensure measurement and data integrity - accurate, reliable, timely, relevant and owned data to enable robust, data-driven decision making

What we're looking for

* Degree-level qualification preferred (or equivalent practical experience).

* Extensive understanding of supply and demand planning processes, with the ability to determine and deliver value improvement opportunities.

* Proven experience in sales order processing and distribution planning, ensuring accuracy and efficiency from order to delivery.

* Customer-focused mindset, with experience managing expectations and delivering a high standard of process excellence.

* Thrives in fast-paced, high-growth environments, staying organised and proactive under pressure.

* Advanced computer literacy, confident working with systems, data, and planning tools to drive performance.

What you'll get in return

* 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.

We reserve the right to close this advertisement before the stated closing date