KEY FACTORY PLANNING SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT- - FIXED-TERM

The Role

We are looking for an experienced Key Factory Planning Subject Matter Expert to support one of our key manufacturing sites. In this role, you will provide expert guidance on production planning, capacity challenges, and operational risks, helping teams make informed decisions that balance service, cost, inventory, and production performance.

You will work closely with manufacturing, operations, and site leadership teams to evaluate planning scenarios, identify opportunities for improvement, and ensure planning processes are effective, consistent, and resilient. You will also contribute to the development of planning standards, performance metrics, and business continuity plans while helping drive best practices across the organization.

This is an excellent opportunity for a planning professional with strong manufacturing knowledge who enjoys solving complex operational challenges, influencing stakeholders, and delivering meaningful business impact.

Principle Accountabilities

• Act as the key escalation point for factory planning risks, scenarios and decision support.

• Govern planning performance and compliance, ensuring standards, stability and action closure.

• Assess capacity, supply and BCP scenarios, quantifying service, cost and inventory impacts.

• Drive planning excellence, identifying root causes and implementing sustainable improvements.

• Support planning standards and KPI governance, leveraging factory learnings and performance insights.

• Partner with Operations and Factory leaders to manage constraints, risks and mitigation plans.

Skills and Experience Required

• Degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Engineering, Business or related field.

• Strong English communication skills.

• Strong manufacturing planning and factory operations knowledge.

• Scenario building and trade-off communication.

• Governance discipline (templates, logs, pack quality) and stakeholder management

• Lean/Six Sigma and/or project/programme management certification (PMP/PRINCE2) and advanced analytics/reporting skills (Power BI/SQL/Excel modelling) would be nice to have

What We Offer

In return for playing your part in building our future, you will receive a comprehensive compensation package with salary, bonus scheme and further benefits as well inspiring places to work and collaborate with purpose. Here at Imperial we will give you the opportunity to grow and learn, innovate at pace and be a part of our purpose to forge a path to a healthier future for moments of relaxation and pleasure for our consumers.

Everyone Belongs

Everyone belongs in Imperial. We are proud of being a truly inclusive organisation. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all ages, genders, ethnicities, nationalities, disabilities, sexual orientation, religions or beliefs and of neuro divergence. We give fair and equal consideration to all our applicants. Please contact us at recruitment@impbrands.com to let us know if we can provide support in helping you complete an application and/or attend an interview.

About Us

We're a truly international company, fourth largest in our industry and operating across 120 markets. An inclusive, innovative global FMCG business supported by 25,000 employees. As we embrace a new era of growth, we are transforming. Our ways of working and culture are driven by a challenger mindset, constantly questioning the status quo where people can bring their best selves to work. Our agility and collaboration are driving our ambitions, innovation and success all supported by our award-winning development programmes that creates exciting and rewarding career opportunities for all. Encouraging inclusion at local levels and supporting a developing and robust diversity agenda globally, we’re fully committed to creating and maintaining an environment that celebrates and respects difference.

As a matter of policy, Imperial Tobacco or its subsidiaries never requests or requires payment as part of any recruitment process.

Everyone Belongs