Planning Executive

HelloFresh is hiring a Planning Executive. Level rates it ; you can apply on HelloFresh.

Level's read on this job

On Level's scale, this role is Uses AI ●●○○: an ordinary role that requires AI tools.
Tools and skills the posting cites include SQL, Python and Excel.
Level classifies it as a mid-level role.
Level lists 394 other open roles at HelloFresh.
The role was posted within the past week.

AI in this role

Lead production and capacity planning while identifying opportunities to apply AI and analytical tools to automate processes.

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About The Team:

The Planning team is the most data-driven team at HelloFresh: we plan, schedule and analyse the production of every box before it reaches our hungry customers across the UK. It's a team where technical skill genuinely moves the needle, and where the right person can make a real mark. This role is based in Derby, in our largest Distribution Centre in Europe.

What You Will Be Doing:

Production & Capacity Planning: Build and maintain accurate production plans based on forecast demand, operational capacity, production constraints and site requirements.
Rackplan Development: Create and validate rackplans that balance demand, SKU placement, capacity, stock availability and operational efficiency, understanding how planning decisions affect production flow.
Plan vs Actual Analysis: Analyse planned versus actual performance, identify deviations and investigate the underlying drivers rather than simply reporting the variance.
Operational Problem Solving: Use data to identify constraints, test assumptions and develop practical solutions to complex production and planning problems.
Continuous Improvement & Automation: Identify opportunities to simplify, automate and improve planning processes, including the practical application of AI and analytical tools.
Stakeholder Partnership: Work closely with Operations and cross-functional teams to understand requirements, challenge assumptions and ensure plans are executable on the production floor.
Planning Governance & Data Accuracy: Maintain accurate operational inputs, including box and recipe volumes within PCS, and ensure planning outputs are thoroughly validated before release.

Who You Are:

Analytically strong: Comfortable working with large and complex datasets and able to turn data into clear operational decisions.
Naturally curious: You don't stop at identifying that something went wrong; you want to understand why.
Strong problem solver: Able to break complex operational problems into manageable components, identify root causes and develop practical solutions.
Technically capable: Advanced spreadsheet skills, including building, interpreting and troubleshooting complex formulas. Experience with SQL, Python, BI tools or similar analytical technologies would be advantageous.
Automation-minded: Able to identify repetitive or inefficient processes and use automation, AI or other technology to improve them. Previous development of AI-enabled tools or solutions is desirable.
Operationally aware: Able to understand the relationship between a planning decision and what physically happens in a production or fulfilment environment.
Confident communicator: Comfortable challenging assumptions, asking difficult questions and constructively pushing back when the data or operational reality doesn't support a decision.
Detail-oriented: Planning errors can have significant operational consequences, so accuracy and disciplined validation are essential.

What you will get in return:

● 70% off HelloFresh or Green Chef boxes
● Company pension scheme
● Gym membership
● Bupa private medical insurance (including dental & family cover options)
● Mental health first aiders and an employee assistance programme
● Nursery support scheme
● Cycle to work scheme
● Group Life Assurance

Location: The Windmil, plot 8, Unit 2 SmartParc Spondon, Derby DE21 7HW

To be considered for this role, you’ll need to have the independent right to work in the UK, as we're unfortunately unable to provide sponsorship at this time.

Next steps: Your application will be reviewed and if successful, a member of the Talent Acquisition Team will be in touch within 2 weeks.

You are required to cooperate with HelloFresh in all health and safety matters. You are responsible for ensuring you take reasonable care of your own health, and safety as well as others who may be affected by the work activities you undertake. You must report incidents immediately and actively raise health and safety-related concerns to your Line Manager. As part of our commitment to maintaining a safe and secure environment, we will process Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks to the successful individual. Failure to disclose relevant information at application or throughout the process could affect your employment with the company.

If you are currently a HelloFresh employee, please make sure you have discussed your application with your Line Manager.

How we rate this

Planning Executive at HelloFresh rates 45 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Uses AI (AI Level 2 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Uses AI. An ordinary role that requires AI tools.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

Key facts

Planning Executive is an open job at HelloFresh.
Level rates this role AI Level 2 of 4: Uses AI.
The role is based in Derby, England, United Kingdom.
The job was posted on October 27, 2026.
Seniority: mid.
Applications are handled by HelloFresh. Apply on HelloFresh

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

Capacity PlanningProduction PlanningData AnalysisAutomationSQLPythonExcel

Questions you could be asked

Tell me about a project where capacity planning was part of your work. What did you do?
Tell me about a project where production planning was part of your work. What did you do?
Tell me about a project where data analysis was part of your work. What did you do?
Tell me about a project where automation was part of your work. What did you do?
Walk me through how you've used SQL in your day-to-day work.

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List these exact terms on your resume: Capacity Planning, Production Planning, Data Analysis, Automation, and SQL. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
Put the AI tool in a bullet point about what you did, not just in a skills list. This role treats it as a required part of the job.

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