SAP Programme Planner

Greencore; Spalding; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Greencore is seeking a skilled SAP Programme Planner / PMO Lead to drive the Project Vision, delivering a detailed integrated plan across multiple sites. You will manage capacity planning, budgeting, and change control while coordinating with senior leaders to ensure alignment of workstreams and timely delivery.

The role combines remote working with travel to Greencore sites, requiring strategic thinking, strong organisation, and a pragmatic hands-on approach to delivery.

Qualifications

• Proficient in project management processes and tools.
• Experience leading programme management including tracking progress and RAID management.
• Experience in technology implementations and cross-functional alignment.
• Strong certification in PMP/PRINCE2 or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Lead detailed planning of the transformation project.
• Manage capacity planning and resource gaps with SLT.
• Oversee all change control processes for the programme.
• Coordinate cross-functional workstreams and ensure plan integration.
• Oversight of status updates and QA from key workstreams.
• Act as PMO for the code change workstream within Project Vision.
• Lead resourcing and upskilling across the project team.
• Drive budget management and reporting for the programme.

Skills

Project management

Capacity planning

Stakeholder engagement

Strategic planning

Leadership

Education

PRINCE2 or PMP certification

Bachelor’s or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Project

Jira

Job description

Location: Spalding (the role benefits from remote working with expectation to travel to different sites when required)

Why Greencore?

Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026, we’re one of the UK’s leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make everyday taste better.

As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we’re proud to employ over 28,000 talented colleagues across 36 manufacturing sites and 21 distribution depots in the UK and the US. Together, we bring delicious food to life. Our products cover every meal occasion from breakfast through to dinner and dessert, with lunch and snacking in between. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve combined revenues of approximately £4bn.

Our extensive direct to store (DTS) network, with 17 depots across the UK, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring consumers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.

Why is this an exciting time to be a SAP Programme Planner at Greencore?

Greencore has set the vision to build a world class SAP solution, through Project Vision, that delivers outstanding customer and colleague experience, technology innovation, integrated & comprehensive solutions to ensure our operations run without impact.

We are seeking a skilled and passionate Project and Capacity planner and PMO lead for the Project. The Project and Capacity Planner will be an experienced transformation professional, with a strong and demonstrable background delivering large, multi-year, business critical transformations.

The Planner is responsible for overall planning and execution of Project Vision, creating and managing the detailed integrated plan, managing related change control, and creating detailed resource plans. In addition to this activity, the planner will also act as the PMO for the part code change activity – a critical enabler / pre-work required to enable the success of Project Vision.

As a dynamic, self-starter, the individual will have the ability to communicate with, and influence senior workstream leaders, ensuring that the PMO function is positioned to ‘add value’ to the project team as a whole.

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead the detailed planning of the transformation project
• Take responsibility for capacity planning – work with SLT to flag challenges and gaps in terms of resourcing
• Manage all change control processes
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment and integration of plans at workstream and central level
• Receive and manage the quality assurance of status updates from key workstreams
• Act as the PMO for the part code change – a critical enabler / pre-work to enable the success of Project Vision
• Define the approach to leading people resourcing throughout the programme, including capacity planning
• Input into the upskilling and capability building activities across the project team
• Drive the management of the project budget and associated reporting

What we’re looking for:

• Proficient in project management processes and associated tools (e.g. Microsoft project, Jira)
• Practical experience of leading programme management: Tracking progress, status reporting, RAID management, team orchestration
• Understanding of how to run technology implementations
• Strong experience in project planning (PMP, PRINCE2, or similar project management certification)
• Expert in capacity planning
• Budget management capability
• Highly organised with the ability to see ‘the big picture’ and a strong focus on outcomes
• Logical, analytical, and multi-tasking
• Strong stakeholder engagement capability, and ability to influence and motivate others
• Must be able to think and plan strategically; yet possess a detail-oriented, pragmatic management approach
• ‘Big four’ consulting experience would be an advantage