Planning & Fulfillment Manager

At ABB, we help industries outrun - leaner and cleaner. Here, progress is an expectation - for you, your team, and the world. As a global market leader, we’ll give you what you need to make it happen. It won’t always be easy, growing takes grit. But at ABB, you’ll never run alone. Run what runs the world.

Position reports to:
Manufacturing Unit Manager

Location:

Onsite, Pinetops, NC

• Lead Supply Planning, Inventory Management, Order Handling, and Resource Management in the local business unit.
• Drive planning initiatives to improve customer on-time delivery, and be accountable for inventory and supply plan adherence and report resource utilization.
• Lead local order handling and customer excellence team in managing front-end priorities and communication.
• Accountable for production & capacity planning, including Master Production Schedules (MPS), plant capacity and resource availability, work orders and bottlenecks, run strategies, changeovers, and shift schedules.
• Demand & Supply Coordination:
  Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP), alignment with procurement and suppliers, and management of planning parameters.
• Manage WIP & finished goods inventory; oversee order fulfillment, customer delivery & customer service.
• Implement Lean, Six Sigma, and continuous improvement initiatives to reduce cost and lead time.
• Cross-functional leadership and collaboration with Production, Quality, Procurement, Engineering, Logistics, and Sales; and risk management.

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business, or manufacturing‑related field plus minimum 10 years experience manufacturing planning and fulfillment working with flow products and systems.
• Minimum 5 years of managerial experience as a P&F Manager in a high paced manufacturing company with a multiple customer facing base (internal and external).
• Sound knowledge of planning ERP systems, demand planning, and lean manufacturing.
• Proven experience in SAP, capacity planning, and business analytics tools and ability to review, assess and implement changes in Master Planning, Production Control, Customer Service activities.
• Demonstrated experience in customer‑facing communication, stakeholder management and ability to handle customer delivery/quality/service discussions.
• Fluent, confident English language skills.
• Candidates must already have a work authorization that would permit them to work for ABB in the US.

ABB's Distribution Solutions Division facilitates the efficient and reliable distribution, protection and control of power by improving electric power quality while strengthening the resilience of the grid. The Division offers segment‑specific products and solutions that largely serve utilities, industry and infrastructure segments, often providing the requisite medium‑voltage link between high‑voltage transmission systems and low‑voltage users. With ABB Ability™ enabled connected solutions at its core, the offering includes medium‑voltage air‑ and gas‑insulated switch gear (1 to 66 kilovolts), indoor and outdoor circuit breakers, reclosers, fuses, contractors, relays, instrument transformers, sensors, motor control centers, as well as low‑voltage switch gear for the ANSI standard markets.

We empower you to take initiative, challenge ideas, and lead with confidence. You’ll grow through meaningful work, continuous learning, and support that’s tailored to your goals. Every idea you share and every action you take contributes to something bigger.

ABB is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer for protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities at ABB.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their-sex (gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation), marital status, citizenship, age, race and ethnicity, inclusive of traits historically associated with race or ethnicity, including but not limited to hair texture and protective hairstyles, color, religious creed, national origin, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, genetic information, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal and state law.

Fo…