Planning ExecutiveNew

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'll do

• Production & Capacity Planning: Build and maintain accurate production plans based on forecast demand, operational capacity, production constraints and site requirements.

• Rackplan Development: Create and validate rackplans that balance demand, SKU placement, capacity, stock availability and operational efficiency, understanding how planning decisions affect production flow.

• Plan vs Actual Analysis: Analyse planned versus actual performance, identify deviations and investigate the underlying drivers rather than simply reporting the variance.

• Operational Problem Solving: Use data to identify constraints, test assumptions and develop practical solutions to complex production and planning problems.

• Continuous Improvement & Automation: Identify opportunities to simplify, automate and improve planning processes, including the practical application of AI and analytical tools.

• Stakeholder Partnership: Work closely with Operations and cross-functional teams to understand requirements, challenge assumptions and ensure plans are executable on the production floor.

What they're looking for

• Planning Governance & Data Accuracy: Maintain accurate operational inputs, including box and recipe volumes within PCS, and ensure planning outputs are thoroughly validated before release.
• Analytically strong: Comfortable working with large and complex datasets and able to turn data into clear operational decisions.
• Naturally curious: You don't stop at identifying that something went wrong; you want to understand why .
• Strong problem solver: Able to break complex operational problems into manageable components, identify root causes and develop practical solutions.