Production Planner in Highbridge

At Yeo Valley, we’ve been making delicious, organic dairy products for over 50 years. As a family-run business, we believe in doing things the right way - sustainably, ethically, and with people at the heart of what we do.

We are looking for a Production Planner to join our Customer Demand, Planning & Replenishment Team. The working hours for this role are 4 on 4 off, working 12 hour shifts, 06:00 - 18:00 (42 hours per week) and the role is based at our Acorn House office in Highbridge.

You will be responsible for creating, maintaining and optimising constraint‑based production plans to achieve the best possible customer service whilst supporting optimised manufacture and use of materials.

Your Responsibilities Will Include:

• Through effective use of planning & scheduling software systems, develop and maintain feasible and optimised production plans and schedules, balancing demand, capacity, shelf life, and material constraints while minimising waste and obsolescence.
• Proactively manage planning exceptions, risks, and capacity/material constraints, taking corrective action and escalating trade‑offs with clear, data‑based recommendations.
• Through effective collaboration with manufacturing and replenishment operations, align production plans with the agreed business objectives and priorities.
• Maintain, optimise, and exploit all current systems and software. Positively engage and support the development and implementation of new software systems and approaches.
• Produce accurate, reliable, and timely reports and analysis to advise the wider business of current performance and any risks to performance.
• To provide the liaison for any issues arising during the shift and escalate any significant risks and impacts to plan achievement which may result in a significant impact to customer service.
• Build and maintain excellent relationships, confidence and trust with internal teams. To create shared understanding and effective solutions.
• To provide out of hours support for the manufacturing operations whilst on shift.
• To provide effective flexible cover for all holidays and absence as necessary to support the effective operation of the Production Planning function.

Essential:

• Good academic level of education
• Experience of Production Planning in a multi-sku FMCG business
• Experience using Planning & Scheduling software
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data and planning outputs to support decisions
• Confident Communicator
• Excellent IT skills & MS Office skills
• Excellent numeracy & literacy skills
• Effective time management skills

Desirable:

• S&OP processes
• Experience of MS Dynamics
• Short shelf-life Food industry experience
• Smart sheet and other Microsoft packages

We’re independent, British and proud to be making the highest quality yogurts, desserts and ice cream under the Yeo Valley brand and for many of the UK’s major retailers. Operating from four dairies and two logistics centres in Somerset and Devon, we employ over 1900 staff and produce more than 25% of the UK’s packaged yogurt.

Benefits:

• Competitive holiday allowance
• Non-contributory pension scheme
• Life cover
• Healthcare cash back plan
• Cycle to work scheme
• Subsidised Yeo Valley products and services
• Preferential rates with our partners
• Learning and development opportunities; we’re committed to ensuring all of our employees have the chance to grow

Our closing dates are a guide for when the application window should close, although we may close the advert sooner if we can. So, we recommend you get your application in straight away - and don’t miss the opportunity to join us!

Unfortunately, we’re not able to provide employment sponsorship to candidates at this moment in time.

Please note that Yeo Valley do not accept speculative agency applications; we will only accept applications from preferred suppliers that have been submitted to us via our recruitment portal at the point of instruction.