Senior Planner

Are you an experienced Production Planner or Senior Planner with a background in manufacturing?

Do you enjoy coordinating production schedules, solving planning challenges and working closely with operations to keep manufacturing running efficiently?

We’re supporting a leading manufacturing business in Havant who are looking to recruit a Senior Planner to join their Planning team.

What’s the role all about?

As a Senior Planner, you’ll play a key role in coordinating production planning activities across multiple manufacturing areas, ensuring customer demand, production capacity and material availability are aligned.

This is a fast-paced role where you’ll work cross-functionally with Operations, Procurement, Logistics and Sales to ensure production plans are delivered effectively and customer expectations are met.

Key responsibilities

• Create and maintain weekly production schedules across multiple manufacturing areas
• Monitor capacity and highlight risks or constraints to the operations team
• Review order books, inventory levels and upcoming production requirements
• Coordinate with Procurement and Operations to ensure materials and production plans align
• Manage subcontractor demand and delivery schedules
• Monitor subcontractor performance and resolve delivery or capacity issues
• Manage production orders to support manufacturing plans
• Review late orders and upcoming demand to minimise delays
• Drive improvements to ensure customer delivery dates are achieved
• Collaborate closely with Operations, Procurement, Logistics and Sales teams
• Support continuous improvement of production planning systems and processes
• Ensure MRP system accuracy and data integrity

What you’ll need

To succeed in this role, you’ll bring:

• Experience within a Production Planning or Manufacturing Planning role
• Background within a manufacturing environment
• Experience using MRP / ERP systems
• Good understanding of production scheduling and capacity planning
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to prioritise workloads and work to deadlines
• Strong problem-solving and organisational skills

Desirable

• Intermediate Excel skills
• Experience working with subcontract manufacturers or supply chain coordination
• Exposure to continuous improvement or process optimisation projects

About you

You’re organised, proactive and enjoy working in a fast-moving manufacturing environment where planning and communication are key.

You’ll be:

• Detail-focused and analytical
• A confident communicator
• Able to manage competing priorities
• Collaborative and solutions-focused
• Comfortable working cross-functionally across the business

Salary and benefits

• £40,000–£45,000 DOE
• Company pension contribution
• Death in service benefit
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Retail and lifestyle discounts
• Long service awards
• Monthly recognition awards
• Free parking
• Free hot drinks

Interested?

If you’re an experienced Production Planner or Senior Planner looking for your next opportunity within manufacturing, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply today or contact us for a confidential discussion.

Kingdom People are acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.