Production Planner

1 week ago


Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom Samworth Brothers Full time

About The Role:

Join the Samworth Brothers Team and become part of our dynamic family


At Samworth Brothers, we genuinely care about our colleagues and strive to create an engaging environment that values your unique contributions.

We are committed to your success and offer a range of exceptional benefits that we believe supports your life and personal aspirations:

  • Enhanced pension scheme
  • Private health scheme
  • Employee discount scheme
  • Experience annual pay reviews
  • Profit related pay
  • Unlock your potential through training and growth opportunities

The Opportunity


We have a great opportunity for an experienced Production Planner to join out team here at Walkers Deli & Sausage.

You will play an active role within the planning team to help support the business goals/objectives, effectively planning and scheduling production to meet customer demand in the most cost-efficient manner.


  • Production Planning and Scheduling: Develop and maintain comprehensive production plans and master schedules considering product specifications, production capacities, sales forecasts, and inventory targets.
  • Inventory Management: Monitor inventory levels of workinprogress and finished goods to strike a balance between meeting demand and reducing excess inventory.
  • Performance Analysis: Support the regular review production performance metrics, such as production throughput, changeovers, and production efficiency. Analyse and adjust where required.
  • Crossfunctional Collaboration: Collaborate with different departments, including production, quality control, NPD, logistics, and sales, to ensure seamless communication and alignment of objectives.
  • Continuous Improvement: Support continuous improvement initiatives in production planning and execution processes to enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and improve overall operational effectiveness.
  • KPI's: Support and drive key performance indicators within the department and actively seek to improve.
  • Planning experience within the food industry desirable
  • Highly numerate and computer literate
  • Experienced in using Planning/WMS and inventory control systems.
  • Excellent communication and organising skills.
  • Self Motivated and possesses lots of initiative.
  • Resultsorientated with a positive attitude to drive forward continuous improvement.


We also want you to thrive in an engaging and inclusive work culture where you will have the opportunity to take on personal accountability and take pride in your work.

We encourage positive communication, and the building of strong collaborative relationships is essential to every role.

About Us:

We are a fourth-generation family business producing high quality own-label products for many of the UK's best-known retailers along with our own brands including Ginsters, Soreen, Higgidy, Dickinson & Morris and Walker & Son.

We employ over 10,000 people in well-invested modern food manufacturing sites around the country.


At Samworth Brothers we take pride in our family feel within our businesses and work together to make things happen.

We can offer you the stability of a wider group as well as the opportunities that that offers if you wish to progress your career with us.

We are family and we would like to invite you to be part of that and support our teams in delivering great products to all of our customers.

**_Samworth Brothers do not engage with unlicensed gangmasters or third parties. Samworth Brothers will NEVER ask you for money in order to provide you with employment. If you are in any doubt, please contact an official Samworth Brothers representative._
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