Planning Manager

About The Team

The Planning team is the most data-driven team at HelloFresh: we plan, schedule and analyse the production of every box before it reaches our hungry customers across the UK. It's a team where technical skill genuinely moves the needle, and where the right person can make a real mark.

What You Will Be Doing

This is a technical role at the heart of the planning team. We're looking for the subject-matter expert on the front-end of production planning: someone who owns the tools, the systems and the detail, and who is proactive rather than reactive. Management experience is not essential; deep technical capability is. In your first year you will:

Own the technical capability of the planning team, and be the subject-matter expert on the frontend production planning tasks before they reach production.

Oversee and coordinate the daily planning operations, and actively build the production schedule.

Analyse the previous week's production measurements to adapt future plan parameters, and draw out insight for ongoing and future projects.

Drive initiatives to improve the tools and processes that optimise production, measurement and KPI reporting, applying AI and automation where it adds value.

Act as the technical lead for the team, coordinating short and mid-term team and business projects.

Support and help elevate the team, and attend tier meetings.

Maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders inside and outside the business.

Who You Are

A strong technical and systems background, ideally from an operational environment (for example data, logistics or transport planning).

A real understanding of AI and how to apply it, ideally with some coding ability, this is central to the role.

Advanced in Excel and Google Sheets.

Data-driven, and highly detail-oriented.

Long-term oriented and proactive: you anticipate and plan ahead rather than react.

The competencies of a manager, though management experience itself is not required.

Strong prior