Harvest Planner

About The Opportunity

As a Harvest Planner, you play a key role in connecting supply and demand across our fresh produce supply chain. You are part of the Harvest Planning team and responsible for creating accurate, short‑term plans that ensure our customers are supplied on time and in full. From grower submissions and daily planning to purchase orders and arrivals, you manage the operational planning cycle while working closely with growers and key internal stakeholders.

This is a fast‑paced, hands‑on role where accuracy, communication and timely decision‑making are essential. The role follows fixed working hours from 06:30 to 15:30 and includes one weekend shift every other week, for which you receive a compensatory day off during the week.

UK - Maidstone

• Job Family:
  Supply Chain
• Time Type:
  Full time
• Job Requisition : R0009037
• Experience:
  
  3–5 Years
• Employee Type:
  Regular
• Remote Type:
  Onsite

• Managing grower submissions, stock data and short‑term supply forecasts, ensuring accuracy and timely availability across all planning systems.
• Building and executing daily (Day 1) harvest and allocation plans, aligned with weekly supply, stock age, quality, logistics constraints and demand priorities.
• Allocating supply to demand using planning tools and ERP systems, identifying risks or gaps and coordinating adjustments with Planning, Logistics and Grower Operations.
• Acting as a central communication hub between growers, commercial teams, master planning, logistics and intake.
• Creating, updating and managing grower purchase orders, harvest orders and ASN related activities.
• Supporting intake and site teams with arrivals, open stock visibility and operational queries.
• Ensuring system inputs are accurate and contributing to continuous improvement of planning processes and ways of working.

• Detail‑oriented and communicative planner who thrives in an operational environment where priorities can change quickly; comfortable working with data and engaging stakeholders.
• Strong planning and organisational skills, balancing accuracy and pace.
• Clear and confident communication skills when working with growers and cross‑functional teams.
• Analytical mindset, able to interpret data, investigate variances and resolve issues.
• Experience working with ERP systems (ideally Prophet) and strong Excel skills.
• Proactive and resilient attitude, confident to take ownership in a dynamic environment.
• Flexibility to work early starts, weekend shifts and adjusted weekly schedules.
• Understanding of operational supply‑chain processes, including orders, arrivals and ASNs.

Driscoll's is the global market leader for fresh strawberries, blueberries, raspberries and blackberries. With more than 100 years of farming heritage and hundreds of independent growers around the world, Driscoll's is passionate about growing fresh, beautiful and delicious berries. Our values of humility, passion and trustworthiness guide our mission to delight consumers around the world. Driscoll's exclusive patented berry varieties are developed through years of research using only natural breeding methods—meaning no GMOs.

From farm‑to‑table, we focus on delivering a high‑quality, premium berry experience with our many supply‑chain partners.