Planning Manager

Medirest Signature; Northampton; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Planning Manager for its Midlands Super Hub. The role involves overseeing staffing operations, ensuring compliance with regulations, and generating workforce plans. With a competitive salary starting from £52,513 and various employee benefits, this position offers an excellent career opportunity.

Benefits

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Company pension scheme

Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave

Family friendly support

Sick pay

Discounts on products and services

24/7 Wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Experience with key dimensions like budget and headcount.
• Operational knowledge, particularly in Automation Processing.
• Ability to manage change and collaborate with unions.

Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with company standards and licensing terms.
• Lead a team and manage staff absence and leave.
• Provide timely analysis on staffing resources and workload alignment.

Skills

Financial awareness

Numeracy skills

Attention to detail

Analytical skills

Understanding of Employment Legislation

Education

Relevant resourcing background

Tools

Manpower Planning package

RCS

PSP

Advanced Excel

Job description

Planning Manager
Salary starting from £52,513 plus10% annual bonus potential, 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, rising with service, and a company pension scheme with highly competitive contribution rates
Permanent Full time
Midlands Super Hub, Dirft Drive, Crick, Northampton, N6 7HQ

About the role

Reporting to the Midlands Super Hub Planning Manager and Parcels Hub Manager, you will:

• Be the major contributor to the effective staffing of the National Distribution Centre / National Parcel Hub and Midlands Super Hub operational functions and be responsible for the effective alignment of resource/work hours to workload.
• Ensure the accuracy of Staff Resource Planning by work area, shift, and day, cost-effective workforce planning is facilitated in line with traffic forecasting, and the provision of timely analysis on skills, heads, hours planned v actual.
• Ensure compliance is demonstrated and auditable in line with company standards and terms of licenses upheld (such as Mail Integrity, Data Security, OT & SA authorisation, and Agency deployment).
• Undertake all legislative requirements for the monitoring and implementation of the Working Time Directive to ensure legal requirements are met and hold overall responsibility of all databases held on all systems within the Resource unit that relate to employees to ensure they comply with the Data Protection Act and with Royal Mail data capture, storage, and management standards.
• Lead a team of up to 10 Admin and Bookroom direct reports, control and monitor site staff absence and leave, and managing site annual leave through use of PSP / ALP package.
• Generate workable solutions to the work-hour mix problem by working in partnership with Midlands Super Hub Planning Manager and operational management teams and ensure that the correct skills base is in place to resource the operation.
• Provide data and analysis to be used in the daily production review (plan v actual) and to challenge and maintain the integrity of the base data and the reported variances, and monitor, manage, and maintain work area, shift, and unit resource levels across the APSS, Cross Docking, Bulk Mail, TRHV and Manual.
  
  

About You

To truly excel in this role, you will possess, and be able to evidence, the skills and experience listed below:

• An ability to understand and apply the Manpower Planning package, RCS, PSP, and the mandatory standards, and able to analyse, forecast, resource, and plan against a model, including budgetary requirements.
• Understanding of the Working Time Directive, Data Protection Act and other relevant Employment Legislation and good knowledge of Recruitment & Interviewing Techniques (RIT).
• Strong financial awareness, familiarity with financial drivers, good numeracy skills, and PC literate with advanced excel knowledge and usage.
• Planning and organising, attention to detail, and a high standard of accuracy.
• Experience with key dimensions such as budget, headcount. resource provision, pay mix, and financial probity.
• Operational knowledge, particularly Automation Processing.
• Experience of managing change and collaborating with unions, such as the CWU.
• Knowledge of continuous improvement tools and techniques.
• Ability to maintain site HR systems and reporting alignment.
  
  

Desirably

• Relevant resourcing background or experience.
• Experience of continuous improvement implementationfor cost saving and efficiency improvement.
  
  

Extra Benefits

• Family friendly support - enhanced maternity pay, paternity leave, adoption leave and shared parental leave.
• Discounts and offers - there are more than 800 offers to help you save on things like groceries, days out, holidays and your household bills*.
• Supportive and generous companysick pay.
• Your Wellbeing -you and your family have 24/7 access to services and tools to help you get the most out of life. From your physical and mental health to financial and social support and advice. It's free, and it's for everyone.

*Available only to perm employees

Next Steps

If you are interested in applying, please complete your application online and submit your current CV. The next stage of the selection process will be a face-to-face interview consisting of competency based and role specific questions.

Trust is the foundation of Royal Mail. We aim to be transparent about the qualities we seek and what a career with us entails, building trust from the start of your journey with us. Your interview is the first step, and we want you to shine. To help you prepare, we'll provide your interview questions in advance, so you can have your best examples ready. At Royal Mail Group, we value trust and our people.

Royal Mail Group is committed to inclusion and representing the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from all individuals. As a proud Gold signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant, we especially encourage applications from the Armed Forces community, including cadet instructors and spouses/partners.

We are committed to ensuring an inclusive recruitment process. If you require any adjustments to support you during the hiring process, please discuss these with your recruiter when contacted.

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Closing Date:Tuesday 24th June 2025. Please note, this advert may close early if the appropriate number of applications has been reached.

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