Senior Manager, Production Planning & Scheduling

Job Summary: Reporting to the VP of SIOP, this position is responsible for creating and maintaining production schedules for multiple manufacturing sites to ensure that all company goals are achieved and deadlines are met. By developing effective schedules, this role plays a major part in helping the company reach its objectives. A strong understanding of the production process is essential, along with the ability to generate and maintain effective daily and weekly schedules. Responsibilities include posting schedules, solving production problems, seeking process improvements, and helping fulfill company expectations. This position develops daily or weekly production schedules to ensure that production deadlines are met, determines material, equipment, and labor requirements, prepares status and performance reports, and resolves production issues.

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Establishes operational objectives, policies and procedures for production planning and scheduling function at a manufacturing site
• Accountable for the execution of the integrated production supply plan and management thereof to ultimately meet customer demand at manufacturing site; Needs to be a strong tactical decision maker; ability to handle unforeseen issues
• Oversee the development and implementation of a robust supply plan that maximizes production capacity and achieves a high level of clear-to-build status for material availability to meet customer demand, revenue commitments.
• Proactively monitors material availability by ensuring Purchase Orders and preceding activities are executed in timely manner to avoid program impact
• Ensures optimal inventory levels and avoids stock-outs by implementing strategies such as strategic safety stock, forecasting, safety lead times, etc.
• Responsible for analyzing production capacities and developing long term strategies for scaling operation needs based on demand changes, operational constraints, and new product introductions
• Establishes strong partnerships with procurement, logistics, operations to ensure continuous flow of production from an end-to-end state uninterrupted
• Oversee demand management process to safeguard ability to meet production schedule and meet on-time delivery
• Establishes process to continually audit and refine planning processes where deficiencies or opportunities for continuous improvement exist
• Interacts regularly with all levels of management (including senior management); provides regular status updates on performance metrics, uses influencing skills to persuade / negotiate and solve complex problems.
• Oversees a team of experienced production planners/schedulers, develop and mentor immediate planning team on best-in-class practices, improvement opportunities, goals, and career progression
• Accountable to drive metric results by tracking key performance indicators such as MPS Attainment, Capacity Attainment, MPS Loading, On-Time to Customer Request, Customer Past Due, Revenue, Annual Operating Plan (AOP)
• In depth knowledge of Material Requirements Planning (MRP), Master Production Schedule (MPS), as they relate to Supply Planning, Capacity Planning, MPS Reconciliation
• Lead and mentor teams through RCCA (root cause and corrective actions) analysis process in the Supply Chain function
• Key contributor in overall SIOP (Sales, inventory and operations planning) process
• Key contributor in AOP Revenue Planning process
• Accountable for department budget, departmental goals and targets in line with leadership objectives and vision
• Use of data analytics for decision making where solution is not straight forward, or problem is not clearly defined

Minimum Job Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain management, business management, or related field is required, master's preferred
• Certified in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM) accreditation or other relevant certification is advantageous.
• 10+ years of experience / sound knowledge of material requirements planning (MRP) software - SAP.
• 5+ years using Project Management tools, (project plans, RAILs, reporting.)
• 5+ years of advanced experience using Excel (Pivot tables, v-lookups, and data consolidation) and PowerPoint.
• Demonstrated cross-functional team project management success leveraging project management tools.
• Ability to lead and support several concurrent projects and develop strong relationships within cross-functional teams.
• Proven experience working as a production planner.
• Proficiency in all Microsoft Office applications.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills.
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.

The description provided above is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all job duties, responsibilities and requirements. Duties, responsibilities and requirements may change over time and according to business need.