Hams Hall Depot Planner

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We believe in providing meaningful work and achieving a real work/life balance. Here, you'll find both. Our Supply Chain team is the engine room for getting thousands of products from farms and factories to our millions of customers every day. We leverage insight and data to anticipate customer needs, ensuring they get what they want, when they need it. You'll be part of a team that is data‑driven and judgment‑focused, always the first to identify and address any issues or ambiguities.

A culture of collaboration, customer obsession, and continuous improvement drives us to deliver market‑leading product availability and operational excellence, and fuels our innovation. Our Supply Chain team calls for people who champion change, are customer‑obsessed, data‑driven, and excel at collaborating and communicating effectively – because those people can go a very long way.

Are you highly customer‑focused, with a real desire to develop and progress using the in‑depth knowledge of logistics warehouse operations you’ve already gained working in a fast‑moving depot environment? Then make the move to Sainsbury’s and let your talent shine, playing a vital role in ensuring our depot operations run smoothly, that will in turn help ensure our shelves are packed full of everything from apples to baby food and paracetamol – whenever they’re needed.

You don’t get from being a small shop in 1869 to one of the UK’s most loved retailers without a passion for innovation and a relentless pursuit for better. And that’s where you come in because, right now, we’re looking for a Depot Planner to join our Operational Execution, Supply Chain & Logistics team at our distribution centre.

Keeping our shelves full for our customers depends on us having a terrifically tight team, whether on the shop floor or at our distribution centre, where this particular role is based. Your challenge? To take responsibility for the effective delivery of all day‑to‑day depot warehouse planning activity, including absences, holidays and shift planning. Indeed, we’ll look to you to produce, process, assemble and distribute the vital paperwork that will aid the smooth running of the depot’s operations.

But that’s not all. We’ll also rely on you to review depot plans and highlight any risks, manage site agency supplier relationships, maintain training records, manage shift patterns and rotas and play your part in longer term/event planning. In short, you won’t be short of interest and variety.

• Manage day‑to‑day depot warehouse planning, including absences, holidays and shift planning.
• Produce, process, assemble and distribute vital paperwork for depot operations.
• Review depot plans, highlight risks and recommend solutions.
• Manage relationships with site agency suppliers.
• Maintain training records and manage shift patterns and rotas.
• Contribute to long‑term and event planning.

• Understanding of GDPR regulations and ability to apply judgement and discretion when handling sensitive information.
• Awareness of local health and safety regulations and relevant legislation such as the Working Time Directive.
• Experience in a highly unionised environment is an advantage.
• Strong stakeholder relationship building and problem‑solving skills.
• Excellent accuracy, attention to detail and data‑analysis, presentation and sharing abilities.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including use of formulas.

• Paid holiday.
• Colleague discount card after 4 weeks, providing 10% discount on most items in Sainsbury’s, Argos and Habitat, later increased to 15%.
• Food and hot drinks in colleague areas at all depots.
• Commitment to wellbeing, diversity & inclusion, values and work‑life balance.

Entry level

Full‑time

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Retail

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