Staff Vehicle Program Planner

About the role

The Production Planning Manager owns the production plan of record for different programs across the 24-month Master Production Plan (MPP) and near-term Sales and Operations Execution (S&OE) horizon. They translate demand and program inputs into a feasible, capacity-aligned build plan, integrate engineering changes, and deliver the supply response into Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) and S&OE.

Responsibilities

• Own the Master Production Plan — Build & maintain the 24-month rolling plan using RCCP; balance demand, capacity & material constraints.
• Capacity & scenario modeling — Model line-rate and shift scenarios; surface critical-part constraints and trade-offs to the platform lead.
• Integrate program changes — Translate Program Change Control Requests (PCRRs) into the timeline — feature cut-ins, effectivity & ramp impacts.
• Near-term S&OE & allocation — Provide production inputs to weekly S&OE; support firm-zone, order slotting & BTS/BTO allocation with Scheduling.
• Build planning tooling & models — Develop in Python / Databricks; prototype and pilot AI-assisted planning; partner with internal software teams to productize what works.
• Shape advanced planning systems — Bring APS acumen to the advanced planning systems implementation — define what “good” looks like and drive toward automated, single-source planning.
• Feed the forums & hold alignment — Deliver the supply response into S&OP and S&OE forums; keep the plan republished across SAP, Internal Planning Systems & Databricks as one source of truth.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Supply Chain Management/Logistics, Analytics, Data Science, Mathematics/Statistics or related field.
• 5+ years production / supply-chain planning.
• Hands-on Python, SQL, & Databricks development.
• Early adopter of AI / ML planning models and Agent development.
• Demonstrated ability to learn, grow and adapt to ambiguous situations.
• Advanced planning system (Kinaxis / APS) acumen.
• Partners with software / data teams to build tooling.
• RCCP & capacity modeling; automotive preferred.