SAP Programme Planner (6 months, Inside IR35)

Greencore Group; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 129,000 - 148,000; Full time

Job summary

Greencore Group is seeking a SAP Programme Planner to lead detailed planning for the Project Vision transformation across multiple sites in the UK. You will own capacity planning, manage change control, and coordinate cross-functional workstreams with senior leaders to ensure integrated plans and budgets.

The role requires strong experience in SAP/S4 Hana projects, PMP/PRINCE2 or equivalent certification, and a proven ability to drive delivery in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

Qualifications

• Proven project management experience with large-scale transformations.
• Strong SAP/S4 Hana project experience.
• Experience leading programme management: tracking progress, RAID, reporting.

Responsibilities

• Lead the detailed planning of the transformation project.
• Take responsibility for capacity planning – work with SLT to flag resourcing gaps.
• Manage all change control processes.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment of plans.
• Receive and manage QA of status updates from key workstreams.
• Act as the PMO for the code change work – enabling Project Vision.
• Define the approach to leading people resourcing and capacity planning.
• Input into upskilling and capability building across the project team.
• Drive management of the project budget and reporting.

Skills

Project management

Microsoft Project

Jira

S4 Hana / SAP

Budget management

Capacity planning

Stakeholder engagement

Tools

Jira

Job description

Role: SAP Programme Planner

Contract: 6 months (Inside IR35)

Rate: £700-800 (per day)

Location: Leeds/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.

Ourextensive 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)
• S4 Hana / SAP programme experience
• 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