Sr Manager, Production Planning & Scheduling

Job Responsibilities

• Prepare schedules and allocate resources across internal and contract manufacturing facilities to meet delivery commitments, improving quality, productivity, cost efficiency, and on-time performance
• In collaboration with Operations leadership, own capacity models and forecasts, including rough-cut and detailed capacity planning and available-to-promise (ATP) analysis tying open sales orders to inventory and open supply
• Proactively make recommendations to facilitate optimal production footprint based on sales forecasts
• Proactively identify potential operational bottlenecks and/or stranded capacity across production facilities and distribution centers, including inbound/outbound throughput and inventory-holding constraints
• Participate in corporate S&OP process, actively collaborate with Sales and Operations to optimize production
• Serve as the planning & scheduling workstream lead for Project Elevate, the Company's ERP migration from Oracle EBS to SAP S/4HANA, including documenting current-state processes and defining future-state scheduling and capacity requirements
• Partner with Finance and plant leadership to reconcile capacity and labor standards against standard cost variance reporting
• Utilize Company ERP systems (currently Oracle EBS, transitioning to SAP S/4HANA) to schedule operations, and analyze data used in making business decisions
• Utilize Windows desktop applications to prepare reports and analysis as required (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field
• 5-10 years of previous experience in manufacturing or supply chain roles
• Demonstrated experience in planning and scheduling for a multi-site operation
• Experience with ERP systems such as Oracle EBS or SAP (S/4HANA preferred); prior involvement in an ERP implementation or migration is a plus
• Experience with rough-cut capacity planning (RCCP) and available-to-promise (ATP) methodologies
• Advanced skills in Excel, demonstrated experience in scenario planning and modelling
• Experience with PowerBI, Tableau, Python, or other advanced data analysis tools
• Excellent leadership and communication skills