Overview
Sales & Operations Planner – United Kingdom
Job Title: Sales & Operations Planner
Location: UK – Home Based – With Occasional Travel
Contract & Hours – 12 Month Maternity Leave Contract – 37.5 hours per week
Package includes a starting salary from £35,000, plus a benefits package designed to support your wellbeing and reward your impact and a matched pension contribution of up to 10%.
AB Agri is seeking a skilled and analytical S&OP Lead to join our dairy business. This is a pivotal role where you’ll manage the Sales and Operations Planning process, ensuring alignment between demand forecasts and supply capabilities to support profitable growth.
This position allows for remote work with some travel, giving you the freedom to structure your own responsibilities while contributing meaningfully to the organisation without direct management duties.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and manage accurate demand and supply forecasting plans.
- Collaborate with sellers, procurement teams, and suppliers to align forecasts and secure capacity.
- Lead S&OP processes to optimise product mix and confirm load slots.
- Analyse complex data using Excel and Power BI to identify trends and support decision-making.
- Present insights to senior leadership and support ad-hoc projects
What We’re Looking For
- Solid background in S&OP, demand planning, or supply chain management
- Advanced Excel skills: Power BI experience is a plus.
- Communication and stakeholder engagement abilities
- Calm, resilient, and collaborative approach to problem-solving.
- Ability to work independently and manage competing priorities.
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Where growth meets purpose
What sets us apart is how we delight our customers – and that’s because of great people like you. People with different life experiences who share common values. Together, we’re shaping a world where responsible nutrition is accessible to all. With a big goal comes equally big opportunities to make a career that truly feels like your own. As a team we’re collaborative, purpose-driven and encourage trying new ideas. We also find ways to nourish your individual journey, so everyone can feel proud of the difference that they make in their own way.
We’re thrilled to share that AB Agri has been recognised as one of The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2025. This is a proud moment for us all. It highlights the real progress we’ve made to build a workplace that is inclusive, supportive, and fair for everyone. Over the last 5 years we have rebuilt our talent management practices, from inclusive hiring, to transparent pay frameworks, flexible work, and the momentum of our Employee Network Groups. Our actions are embedding inclusion at the heart of how we operate and creating a culture where people can be themselves
As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone so if you need any additional support (like alternative formats for your application, bringing a support dog to the offices, a sign language interpreter – or anything else) just let us know.
About the Company
Rewarding your passion
When you join us, you’ll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits – these are just some of the ways we reward you – from day one.
About us
We’re AB Agri, part of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’re passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry.
Application Notes
We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we’d love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can – it will only take a few minutes.
When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive – or show us areas we can improve. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions and this won’t affect your application.
Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.
Agencies and media sales
AB Agri group politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don’t accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.
