Planning Senior Specialist
About The Position
The Senior Planning Specialist is responsible for coordinating, monitoring, and optimizing vehicle processing activities to ensure operational efficiency, customer satisfaction, and adherence to company objectives. This role serves as a key liaison between operations, quality, logistics, transportation, and customer teams to manage daily workflows, production schedules, inventory movement, and process improvement initiatives. The Senior Planning Specialist is expected to provide leadership, analytical support, and strategic planning recommendations to support the continued growth and success of the VPC. This position is onsite, working Monday through Friday 8:00am to 5:00pm with one hour lunch. As a growing organization, we offer numerous opportunities for professional growth.
Requirements
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Office applications
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent communication and organizational skills
- Experience working with operational data, reporting, and KPI management
- Strong organizational and time-management skills, with the ability to prioritize multiple tasks and meet production deadlines
- Experience within automotive logistics, vehicle processing, or supply chain operations
- Knowledge of inventory management systems, TMS, yard management systems, and production planning tools
- Experience leading projects or cross-functional teams
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain daily, weekly, and monthly operational plans to support production and shipping targets
- Monitor inventory levels, vehicle status, processing capacity, and shipment schedules to ensure customer requirements are met
- Coordinate with Operations, Quality, PDI, PIO, and Yard teams to ensure efficient vehicle flow
- Facilitate communication between internal departments and external stakeholders to ensure alignment on priorities and objectives
- Assist leadership in capacity planning, yard utilization, inventory management, and process optimization
- Provide guidance and mentorship to other planning department team members
- Analyze operational data and identify trends, bottlenecks, and opportunities for process improvement
- Lead planning and execution of special projects, launches, campaigns, and customer requests
- Investigate operational issues and implement corrective actions to improve efficiency
- Support manpower planning by forecasting workload demands and staffing requirements
- Participate in continuous improvement initiatives focused on safety, quality, productivity, and cost reduction
- Other duties as assigned
Benefits
- medical coverage
- dental coverage
- vision coverage
- 401(k) Plan with $1/$1 matching up to plan provisions
- generous paid time off
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
