Planning Manager

Responsibilities JOB DESCRIPTION - Lead and develop a team of planners, providing clear direction, coaching, performance management and capability development. - Review customer demand, forecasts and backlog to establish priorities and optimize production output and customer lead times. - Develop and maintain realistic production plans aligned with customer demand, capacity, material availability and business priorities. - Ensure timely material availability to support production schedules and customer requirements. - Work closely with Procurement, Suppliers and Warehouse teams to manage material lead times, shortages and delivery risks. - Partner closely with Manufacturing, Procurement, Engineering, Quality, Logistics and Customer Operations to align priorities and ensure execution readiness. - Ensure production plans are achievable and aligned with actual shop-floor capacity, constraints and operational readiness. - Manage order execution and delivery performance, ensuring accurate planning and reliable customer commitment dates. - Act as the key planning interface for issue resolution, priority setting, trade-off decisions and change-impact assessments. - Proactively identify risks such as capacity constraints, material shortages, supplier delays and schedule disruptions, and drive timely mitigation plans. - Strengthen planning processes, data quality and system utilization to improve forecast accuracy, schedule stability and supply reliability. - Drive continuous improvement in planning effectiveness, inventory - performance, production flow and customer service. - Foster a culture of accountability, ownership, urgency, collaboration and continuous improvement. Requirements - Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Operations Management, Business or a related discipline. - 7+ years of experience in production or materials planning within a manufacturing or industrial environment. Experience in high-mix, high-volume contract manufacturing is strongly preferred. - Proven people leadership experience, including coaching, performance management and team development. Firm, assertive and results-oriented with the confidence to drive accountability and make difficult trade-off decisions. - Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, complex and constantly changing environment with competing priorities. - Demonstrated experience leading integrated planning activities across demand planning, supply planning, materials planning and production scheduling. - Good understanding of manufacturing operations, capacity planning, material availability and production scheduling. - Strong analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills, with the ability to act decisively under pressure. - Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to influence and challenge cross-functional teams when required. - Good communication and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and drive execution. - Knowledge of Oracle, Power BI and VBA is preferred. - Passion for innovation, process improvement and operational excellence.

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