Plan Projects Lead

About the role

The Plan Projects Lead is accountable for being the planning core team member for projects such as New Product Introduction (NPI), Life-cycle Management (LCM), and other programs. This role is responsible for ensuring appropriate component and finished goods supply planning, phase/in-out planning, optimizing planning parameters and safety stock levels, and optimizing inventory levels for products impacted by projects in scope.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the Plan Project Lead across multiple planning projects (e.g. New Product Introductions, Life-cycle Management) and programs, owning scope, schedule, risks, deliverables, and stakeholder alignment
• Design and use in-depth analytical tools to support issue resolution, scenario planning, guide decision making, and execution oversight
• Collaborate with business partners to ensure end-to-end variant flow of assigned portfolio in planning system is set up and accurately maintained for Master Production Schedule (MPS) and/or component planning based on manufacturing readiness, regulatory approvals and/or other business assumptions
• Maintain planning system parameters for projects such as phase in/phase out inventory management, safety stock transition, and other parameters as needed
• Lead Windchill PLAN processes, acting as an expert for cross-system setup and flows for NPIs and new variants
• Drive ECO CR/CN execution for Global Plan and manage and control Multivariant SOP forms and procedures in Windchill
• Oversee ECO Parts Disposition for PLAN
• Support Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process for planning projects including Supply Review and Management Business Review (MBR) as needed
• Able to analyze and identify large quantities of data to identify abnormalities, working with a high degree of accuracy and high attention to detail
• Support other duties and projects assigned as needed

Qualifications

• BS/BA degree required, degree in Supply chain or related field is preferred
• Minimum 5 years of experience in Supply Chain, Operations, Planning, Project Management
• Minimum of 4 years of supply chain planning required especially supply, network, E2E, NPI
• Strong analytical skills and experience working with large datasets
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel (e.g. formulas, pivot tables, etc)
• Strong project management capabilities
• High level of personal initiative and strong sense of urgency, and able to perform autonomously with limited supervision
• Strong time management skills
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and presentation skills with proven track record to influence leadership is required
• Able to translate complex analysis into clear, actionable recommendations
• Consistent track record of challenging the “status-quo”, visualizing potential opportunities and implementing actions to build value
• Adaptable to meet constantly evolving priorities