Planning Lead

ITW • Solon, OH

132d

About The Position

Responsible for procuring finished goods, semi-finished good and raw materials, and managing supplier relationships to ensure timely and cost-effective fulfillment of the annual sales plan, while maintaining accurate inventory and MRD. Managing Sales and Operational Planning (S&OP) by creating and adjusting forecasts based on customer and market input, coordinating closely with sales, marketing, and supply chain to support the market rate of demand and promotional events.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field required.
• 5+ years' replenishment planning experience ideally for consumer products business or manufacturing production planning and raw material planning.
• Solid understanding of Supply Chain and Forecasting/Planning processes and tools.
• Strong leadership and change management skills.
• Excellent organizational, communication, collaborative and interpersonal skills.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Ability to lead effective meetings.
• Customer Focus and Result Driven.

Responsibilities

• Exhibits functional leadership expertise in supply chain demand planning processes, tools, and techniques.
• Responsible for Demand Planning: Generate Statistical Demand Plan for each product line, compared to previous period assumptions, and incorporate sales and customer inputs to understand requirement of the business and assure an OTIF above 98%.
• Responsible for Supply Planning: Generate supply plan (make vs buy), generate material requirements and production plans for each manufacturing site, and generate rough-cut capacity plan.
• Lead and execute a Pre S&OP Meeting: Generate S&OP Reports and Metrics (MOH, OTIF, OSMI, etc), document supply chain gaps and resolutions, and document recommendations and agenda for executive meetings.
• Lead and Execute Executive meeting for the S&OP Process: Review recommendations and make decisions, resolve remaining issues, review KPIs and make adjustment and approve plan.
• Contributes to the development of supply chain strategies.
• Purchase finished goods from outside suppliers in accordance with the Market Rate of Demand (MRD) requirements and customer orders required dates.
• Champion and become expert in ITW proprietary MRD, In-lining and 80/20 methodologies as it applies to best-in-class operations and supply performance.
• Confirm supplier delivery dates for purchasing material and expedite orders when necessary.
• Generate and issue reports to other groups to advise of deviations in delivery dates and other changes to plan.
• Inform involved departments of changes in delivery status, market conditions, quality problems and cost fluctuations.
• Lead and update MRD system considering Run Rates, Lead Time and Batch Sizes.
• Lead Inventory Management Meeting.
• Tracks sales promos and POG additions to ensure 100% support of event.
• Track POS data to compare with sales.
• Recommends and implement data changes regarding lead times, minimum balances, lot sizes, and order policy coding relative to scheduling area.
• Leads continual optimization of Supply Planning process, involving, for example, a reduction in complexity, optimization of distribution planning and inventory management, customer collaborations and the consistent standardization of operative processes.
• Provide KPI's and master data management for the planning and inventory functions.
• Lead operational review in key metric areas (MOH, OSMI, OTIF, Lead Time, MOQ, Safety Stock, Throughput, OEE, etc.).
• Effectively leads and develops talent by role modeling and reinforcing enterprise talent management philosophy emphasizing development and differentiated rewards.
• Other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Industry: Machinery Manufacturing
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree