Divisional Head of Supply Planning

Divisional Head of Supply Planning x 2 Positions

Location: Hybrid, with regular travel across assigned UK manufacturing sites

Direct reports: Supply Chain Managers within assigned sites

Are you a senior supply planning leader ready to shape planning performance across a fast growing, complex, multi-site chilled food manufacturing network? This is a high-impact opportunity for an experienced supply chain professional who knows how to turn strategy into executable plans, build planning capability across sites, and improve service, resilience, inventory, and operational performance in a fast-moving UK chilled food environment.

The Opportunity

As Divisional Head of Supply Planning, you will lead end-to-end planning performance across your assigned division, acting as the senior escalation point for supply, capacity, service, and material availability challenges. You will translate divisional supply chain strategy into clear, practical plans that support customer service, cost efficiency, inventory optimisation, risk management, and operational resilience.

This is a role for someone who thrives in complexity: multiple UK manufacturing sites, fast-paced chilled food lead times, seasonal peaks, live operational decisions, and senior stakeholder expectations. You will lead, coach, and develop a team of site-based Supply Chain Managers, creating a stronger, more consistent planning community across the division.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead divisional supply planning strategy, ensuring plans are aligned to business objectives, customer service requirements, cost efficiency, and operational resilience.
• Own and improve the supply planning element of S&OP and S&OE, driving robust forward planning, clear prioritisation, and proactive risk management.
• Oversee end-to-end planning activity across multiple UK manufacturing sites, including service risk, material availability, capacity constraints, schedule adherence, and supply continuity.
• Act as the senior decision and escalation point for significant planning challenges, balancing commercial priorities with operational reality.
• Lead, coach, and develop four Supply Chain Managers, building capability, engagement, succession, and a high-performing planning culture.
• Drive consistency, standardisation, and continuous improvement across planning processes, governance, meeting cadence, KPIs, and reporting.
• Partner closely with Operations, Logistics, Technical, Procurement, Commercial, NPD, Finance, and Process teams to ensure aligned decisions and effective execution.
• Support the implementation and embedding of advanced planning systems, tools, analytics, and new ways of working.
• Strengthen divisional resilience planning, ensuring robust contingency plans are in place for supply, capacity, service, and seasonal peaks.
• Maintain compliance with food safety, quality, integrity, health, safety, and environmental standards across supply chain processes.

About You:

You will bring significant senior supply chain and supply planning experience gained within a complex UK chilled food, FMCG, or food manufacturing environment. Ideally, you will have around 10 years' experience, including multi-site leadership and direct management of Supply Chain or Planning Managers.

You will be credible at senior level, confident in operational detail, and able to influence across manufacturing, commercial, procurement, logistics, finance, technical, and NPD teams. You will be data-led, commercially aware, and comfortable making decisions where service, stock, capacity, waste, and cost all need to be balanced.

Who We're Looking For

• Strong experience in supply planning, S&OP, S&OE, production planning, materials planning, inventory, and service performance within chilled food or fast-paced manufacturing.
• Proven experience leading planning teams across multiple UK manufacturing sites.
• Experience managing, coaching, and developing Supply Chain Managers or site-based planning leaders.
• Strong understanding of chilled food manufacturing pressures, including short shelf life, service risk, seasonal demand, capacity constraints, and operational volatility.
• Ability to use KPIs, planning data, and analytics to drive accountability, decision-making, and continuous improvement.
• Experience embedding planning governance, standard processes, and improved ways of working across complex environments.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence at divisional, site, and central function level.
• Advanced Excel capability and strong planning systems knowledge; experience of planning system implementation would be advantageous.
• Flexibility to travel weekly across your assigned UK manufacturing sites - will include weekly over night stays.

Why Join Us?

At The Compleat Food Group, we believe our people are the heart of our success. That's why we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your lifestyle, wellbeing, and career growth:

• Company Bonus Scheme recognising performance and contribution
• Salary Sacrifice Schemes - including Octopus Electric Vehicle Scheme, Home & Tech, Cycle to Work, and SMART Pension
• 33 days' annual leave (including bank holidays) with the option to purchase extra
• Access to enhanced retail discounts online and in-store
• Free product handouts across our sites, so you can sample and enjoy our delicious products first hand
• EV charging points - available at selected sites
• 24/7 access to GroceryAid for free financial, emotional, and practical support
• Physical Wellbeing Hub - free on-demand exercise programmes, online classes and multiple gym discounts
• Free diet & nutrition advice with access to thousands of meal plans and healthy recipes
• Online wellbeing support - from mindfulness to lifestyle resources
• Financial wellbeing tools - including mortgage calculators, budgeting tools, and financial aid
• Access to a personalised online learning platform (LMS)
• Formal and informal training opportunities tailored to your role
• Performance Development Plans and regular Career Conversations
• Industry leading company Mentoring Schemeto add depth and really support your career journey
• Recognition through Club Compleat rewards portal

Community & Culture

• 2 paid volunteering days per year to give back to causes that matter to you
• Charity initiatives and fundraising events
• Team socials to connect and celebrate together
• Employee networks & support groups - including
• New baby gift for new parents

This is a chance to really progress your career and step into a senior divisional role within a growing group where your impact will be visible across service, inventory, operational performance, planning maturity, and team capability. You will have the opportunity to shape not only your own career but develop a team of Supply Chain Managers and really contribute to how supply planning operates across one of the fastest growing UK chilled food manufacturing companies, supporting better decisions, stronger resilience, and more consistent execution across the network.

Ready to Make an Impact?

If you are a senior supply planning leader with deep UK chilled food experience, multi-site leadership capability, and the confidence to lead planning performance across a complex manufacturing network, we would love to hear from you.

What You Should Know About How We Recruit

At The Compleat Food Group, we believe great teams are built on difference. We create an inclusive, respectful environment where everyone feels safe, supported, and are able to be themselves at work. We're proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to Fairness, Equity, Inclusivity, and Respect. If you need a reasonable adjustment at any stage of our recruitment process, just let us know, we'll support you - confidentially and with care.

We hire the best people for our roles, not the same people. Whoever you are, wherever you're from, we focus on what you do and the impact you could make in our business. Our recruitment process is fair, accessible, and designed to give everyone an equal chance. You'll also find benefits that support people at every life stage, plus active internal networks - including LGBTQIA+, and Neurodiversity

Competitive Senior Salary + Car + Bonus

Hours

Monday to Friday 8.30 - 17pm (With flexibility to WFH)