Join Our Team as the Global Production Planning Excellence Lead
As the Global Production Planning Excellence Lead, you will play a crucial role in driving world-class planning capabilities across our company's global manufacturing network. This role emphasizes the standardization, optimization, and continuous improvement of production scheduling, material planning, and capacity planning processes. Acting as a strategic link between global supply chain strategy and local execution, you will ensure the seamless application of best-in-class processes, tools, technology, and data across all sites and supplier interfaces.
The position focuses on developing functional expertise, enhancing planning maturity, and enabling the organization to achieve superior service, productivity, and inventory performance.
Main Responsibilities
- Define, maintain, and implement global standards, policies, and best-in-class processes for production planning, MRP, RCCP, detailed scheduling, purchasing, and end-to-end planning KPIs.
- Facilitate the harmonized adoption of global processes to foster consistency and scalability across manufacturing sites.
- Identify planning bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and maturity gaps through data analysis and cross-site reviews.
- Lead the design and execution of improvement initiatives that leverage digital tools, automation, and analytics to enhance service, productivity, and inventory performance.
- Oversee the global production planning and scheduling tools, ensuring strong master data accuracy, system governance, and continuous enhancement.
- Drive digital transformation initiatives related to planning technologies.
- Assess maturity across sites and create targeted training programs to upskill planners and promote functional excellence.
- Lead and expand a global Community of Practice to foster knowledge sharing, coaching, and cross-regional expertise development.
- Conduct planning audits, maturity assessments, and performance reviews to ensure compliance with global standards.
- Monitor and report end-to-end planning performance, identify gaps, and support corrective actions.
- Collaborate with Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Sales, Procurement, and IT to ensure alignment of production plans with demand signals, capacity, and inventory goals.
- Support integrated decision-making across functions to improve planning agility and stability.
About You
You are an ambitious and proven leader with over 10 years of experience in production planning or supply chain planning. You possess a strong understanding of MRP, RCCP, and inventory optimization.
Your qualifications include:
- Proven end-to-end planning ownership, ideally within a regional or global operating model.
- Experience in implementing global standards and/or leading planning transformation programs.
- Hands-on knowledge of advanced planning systems (e.g., Kinaxis, PP-DS) and ERP platforms.
- A strong analytical and data-driven mindset with a continuous improvement orientation.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills in a complex, global environment.
- A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Business, or a related field.
Apply online using the form below. Please note that only applications matching the job profile will be considered.