PLANNING AND SIOP MANAGER

Essential Functions

• Own and lead the enterprise SIOP process, aligning demand, supply, inventory, capacity, and financial objectives.
• Facilitate executive SIOP reviews by presenting business risks, capacity constraints, inventory impacts, and recommended actions.
• Lead scenario planning to support business growth, changing market demand, new product launches, and operational constraints.
• Ensure SIOP decisions translate into executable production, procurement, inventory, and capacity plans.
• Own the Master Production Schedule (MPS) and production planning process to support customer demand while optimizing schedule stability, manufacturing lead times, and inventory investment.
• Balance demand, material availability, manufacturing capacity, and supplier capability to develop achievable production plans.
• Partner with Operations and Business Excellence to align production schedules with labor, equipment, tooling, and process capacity.
• Lead planning recovery activities related to supplier constraints, quality issues, engineering changes, and production disruptions.
• Develop inventory strategies that balance customer service, production continuity, and working capital objectives.
• Own planning system governance, including planning parameters, lead times, safety stock, planning calendars, and ERP master data.
• Ensure MRP outputs, planning exceptions, and supply risks are proactively managed through disciplined planning processes.
• Lead Plan for Every Part (PFEP) strategies supporting inventory optimization, supermarkets, replenishment methods, and production flow.
• Establish planning metrics, dashboards, and reporting that provide visibility into inventory, schedule performance, capacity, forecast accuracy, and production readiness.
• Drive continuous improvement of planning processes, ERP utilization, reporting capabilities, and organizational maturity.
• Support ERP optimization and future planning system enhancements to improve planning effectiveness and automation.
• Lead and develop the Planning organization while establishing clear ownership, accountability, and standard work.
• Develop team capability in SIOP, MRP, production planning, inventory management, capacity planning, and business analytics.
• Serve as the primary planning partner across Operations, Procurement, Engineering, Finance, Sales, Product Development, and Manufacturing to support informed business decisions.

Success Measures

• SIOP process maturity and executive decision effectiveness.
• Master Production Schedule (MPS) attainment.
• Manufacturing lead time reduction.
• Days Inventory Outstanding (DIO) and inventory turns.
• Forecast accuracy and schedule stability.
• Material availability and shortage reduction.
• Capacity plan accuracy and production readiness.
• ERP planning discipline and planning parameter accuracy.
• Successful support of new product launches.
• Planning team development and organizational capability.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Required: Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Industrial Engineering, or a related field, or a combination of related experience, education and/or training to sufficiently and successfully perform the essential functions of the job.
• Required: 7+ years of progressive Operations/Supply Chain leadership experience, ideally in manufacturing, defense, or a similarly regulated industrial environment.
• Required: Demonstrated ability to recognize and work within our Company Values.

Physical Requirements

• Must be able to lift and carry awkward items weighing up to 50 pounds.
• Requires intermittent standing, walking, sitting and bending throughout the workday.
• Must be able to work in a manufacturing environment, to include working in and around machinery, exposure to noise and chemicals, lights/lasers, etc.
• Must be able to wear appropriate Personal Protection Equipment as required by your position and/or Company policy.