Supply & Production Planning Manager

What you´ll do

 Leadership & People Development:

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Production Planners, building capability in end-to-end mid- and short-term production planning.
• Set clear performance expectations, conduct regular 1:1s, and ensure effective performance management, coaching, and skills development.
• Ensure adequate resource allocation, workflow prioritization, and resilience within the planning team
• Drive team engagement and foster a culture of collaboration, ownership, and continuous improvement.

Governance:

• Oversee development of feasible, optimized mid-term Production Plans (Month 4–18) and short-term Master Production Schedules (MPS, 0–13 weeks).
• Ensure application of Rough-Cut Capacity Planning (RCCP) standards and correct modeling of machine, labor, supplier, and material capacities.
• Review and validate planning outputs, highlighting risks, opportunities, and scenario impacts to leadership and S&OP teams.
• Secure alignment of production planning with demand planning, material availability, inventory policy, and network constraints.

Issue Resolution & Escalation Management:

• Work with S&OP Manager, Production Schedulers, Material Planners, and Operations to resolve major constraints and propose options with quantified impact.
• Ensure structured, timely communication to stakeholders and proactive risk mitigation.

Collaboration:

• Close collaboration with internal/external key interfaces, mainly via APS, judging and aligning priorities to meet customer expectations and needs vs. supply chain capabilities; monitor and ensure delivery of other functions commitments.

Continuous Improvement:

• Drive continuous improvement initiatives within planning, including workflow optimization and standardization.  and generate new ideas to assist in identifying continuous improvements.

Define and execute projects;

• act as facilitator for roll out of identified regional best practices.

Performance Management:

• Monitor and prioritize own and team’s performance; allocate work and review completion, take appropriate corrective action to ensure the required standards of productivity, timeliness and quality; contribute to formal individual performance management and appraisal; use KPI’s, performance management systems and reports to improve personal and team’s performance.

Time Management & Activities Planning:

• Plan resources/activities according to demand to ensure business continuity, enhance efficiencies and improve service levels. Actively prepare and participate in team meetings to align priorities.   

Compliance:

• Ensure that planning activities comply with corporate standards, SHE requirements, and sustainability policies.