Planning Manager - Install (6-month FTC)
At Planteria Group, we help organisations reimagine their workplaces, making them more productive, healthy, and sustainable. From creating warm, welcoming reception areas to designing large-scale living architecture, we turn ordinary spaces into vibrant places where people genuinely love to be.
We have grown from a small family business into the UK’s leading interior landscaping specialist, transforming workplaces and commercial environments with the power of nature, to international expansion with operations in the US. Along the way, we have partnered with some of the UKs, and now US’s most recognisable brands to bring biophilic design to life, from lush office greenery and elegant corporate floristry to spectacular roof gardens and living walls.
Our success is driven by a fantastic team of 180 employees internationally, and we are continuing to expand. We are now looking for enthusiastic individuals to join us on this journey and help us shape the future of sustainable, inspiring workplace design.
Your Impact:
Joining us as our Planning Manager for our installation activity you will own and lead the end-to-end planning of all installation activity across the business. This is a pivotal role designed to bring structure, discipline, and delivery certainty to installation planning. Your coverage will span across ensuring labour, materials, logistics, and timelines are fully aligned to commercial commitments and operational capability.
This role will see you acting as the single point of accountability for installation plans, translating demand and project requirements into realistic, achievable schedules that drive performance and protect service.
Specifically, you will:
- Own and deliver realistic, fully resourced installation plans aligned to commercial commitments.
- Translate demand and project requirements into achievable daily, weekly, and forward-looking schedules.
- Balance labour, materials, logistics, and subcontractor capacity to protect on-time delivery.
- Identify capacity gaps, clashes, and risks early. You will resolve issues before they impact performance.
- Act as the planning interface driving alignment and clarity.
- Challenge unrealistic timelines and commitments with fact-based alternatives.
- Establish clear planning KPIs and improve visibility of performance and forward risks.
- Introduce simple, robust planning disciplines that stabilise delivery and reduce reactive firefighting.
Requirements
You will be a great fit if you have:
- Strong planning experience within FMCG or similarly fast-paced operational environments.
- Proven experience owning and running complex operational plans under tight deadlines.
- Experience planning labour-intensive operations, with a track record of stabilising or resetting planning functions.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to challenge senior teams constructively.
- Experience in project-led or installation-based operations.
- Experience working with third-party contractors or subcontractors.
- A calm approach to your work to ensure structure, efficiency, effective communication and bringing a team together to have a bias for delivery.
- A data-focused mindset and strong analytical capability.
At Planteria Group, our culture is guided by our core values: Humble & Confident, Positive & Energetic, One TEAM, Relentless to Improve, and Create Wow!
If you want to be part of a flourishing, fast-growing business that values agility, collaboration, and creativity, we would love to hear from you. If you feel that you do not quite hit the experience, we’re after, please do apply anyway as we’re always looking for people who are looking to grow and develop us!
Planteria Group is proud to promote equality of opportunity and an inclusive culture where everyone can thrive.
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Accessibility & Adjustments
We want every candidate to have the best possible experience throughout our recruitment process. If you require any adjustments or accommodations at any stage, including the interview, please let us know, and we will be happy to support you.
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Line Managers are responsible for promoting a safe working environment and ensuring their team follows Health & Safety policies. They provide guidance, training, and supervision, ensure risk assessments and safe systems of work are followed, address hazards promptly, report and support investigations of incidents, ensure staff have proper equipment and PPE, and lead by example to foster a positive safety culture.
Benefits
Way of working: This role is based at our HQ in Henham, Bishop's Stortford. Please also note, that this is 6 month, fixed term contract.
Benefits:
- Work from home 1 day per week.
- Quarterly company bonus and annual performance related bonus.
- BUPA cash plan.
- 25 days holiday, plus UK bank holidays.
- Lunch.
- Learning & Development.