Warehouse Planning Manager
$40,000–$48,000 year
On-siteSheffield, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Translate customer forecasts into effective operational plans to support peak activity periods and service delivery. Produce daily and weekly labour plans, ensuring resources are deployed efficiently to meet operational demands. Monitor forecasts, trends and operational performance, adapting plans proactively to changing business requirements. Deliver productivity reporting and planned-versus-actual analysis, identifying variances and driving corrective actions where required. Review customer forecast accuracy, highlighting risks, opportunities and variances to key stakeholders. Provide meaningful insight to challenge existing practices and identify opportunities to improve operational performance, productivity and cost efficiency. Lead weekly planning and performance reviews with Operations, People & Finance and wider site stakeholders. Identify staffing gaps, capacity risks and future recruitment requirements, partnering with Operational and HR teams to support workforce planning. Maintain and monitor site skills matrices and training plans to ensure the operation has the capability required to meet customer demands.
Required Qualifications
- Proven experience within a logistics, supply chain or 3PL environment
- Strong understanding of warehouse operations
- Hands-on exposure to operational processes
- Experience working with Warehouse Management Systems
- Knowledge of both closed-book and open-book contract environments
- Strong analytical capability
- Ability to interpret complex data
- Ability to interpret management information
- Ability to interpret operational metrics
- Data-driven approach to decision-making
- Confidence to challenge assumptions
- Ability to influence stakeholders using facts and evidence
- Excellent planning skills
- Excellent organisational skills
- Excellent time management skills
- Ability to manage multiple priorities
- Ability to consistently deliver against deadlines
- Advanced Excel skills
- Knowledge of formulas
- Knowledge of functions
- Knowledge of data modelling
- Knowledge of dataset management
- Strong proficiency across the wider Microsoft Office suite
- Commercially minded
- Strong understanding of the relationship between operational performance, customer service and cost management
- High levels of accuracy
- Attention to detail
- Full-time employment
- Permanent basis
- 40 hours per week
- On-site work location
- Sheffield (S35) site location
Desired Qualifications
- Analytical mindset
- Commercially minded perspective
- Ability to balance attention to detail with a broader commercial perspective
- Ability to build plans that support both operational efficiency and customer expectations
- Ability to challenge thinking
- Ability to provide trusted recommendations
- Ability to drive continuous improvement through data-led decision making
- Ability to identify trends
- Ability to identify risks
- Ability to identify opportunities
- Ability to identify variances
- Ability to drive corrective actions
- Ability to highlight risks
- Ability to highlight opportunities
- Ability to highlight variances
- Ability to provide meaningful insight
- Ability to identify opportunities to improve operational performance
- Ability to identify opportunities to improve productivity
- Ability to identify opportunities to improve cost efficiency
- Ability to lead weekly planning and performance reviews
- Ability to partner with Operational and HR teams
- Ability to support workforce planning
- Ability to maintain and monitor site skills matrices
- Ability to develop and manage training plans
- Ability to ensure the operation has the capability required to meet customer demands
- Ability to transform complex data and volumes into meaningful insight
- Ability to drive business decisions
- Ability to develop commercially focused workforce and operational plans
- Ability to produce daily and weekly reporting
- Ability to keep the site performing effectively
- Ability to identify staffing gaps
- Ability to identify capacity risks
- Ability to identify future recruitment requirements
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