Manufacturing Planning Manager; Bilingual in English and Spanish

Manufacturing Planning Manager (Bilingual in English and Spanish)

Manage and coordinate the team responsible for the planning process in the business unit including consolidating forecast, operational planning, inventory planning and optimizing production scheduling; taking into account network capacities and considering constraints such as line capacity, labor, batch sizes, run rates, bottlenecks, and planned downtime. Have an understanding of our portfolio of products to provide customers with the expected level of service under company standards for quality, safety, and profitability.

Serve as primary conduit for fostering a work environment consistent with company philosophy and objectives.

• Consolidate the base line forecast based on sales team input, sales historical data and market data applying statistical models, understanding and incorporating customer stock strategies at appropriate level of detail and horizon.
• Understands and records demand drivers and assumptions behind baseline forecast.
• Influences cross functionally at all levels within the Sales, Inventory and Operations (SIOP) process.
• Operational Planning:
  Agrees Service Level Agreements with Supply Planning, monitors customer OTIF risks, slow movers and potential obsolete SKUs, and triggers corrective actions due to unexpected variations in demand.
• Derives Finished Goods (FGs) stock policy for safety stock, cycle stock, lead-time stock and contingency stock using inventory planning models by stock holding location.
• Creates and understands rough cut capacity plan (RCCP) understanding the planning parameters and assumptions such as changeovers, stock‑building, warehouse constraints, etc.
• Prioritizes the master production schedule based on customer and product stratification; raises future capacity and stock issues considering constraints such as line capacity, labor, batch sizes, run rates, bottlenecks, and planned downtime. Communicates it to the organization and its consequences to the business.
• Leads improvement projects to contribute to the financial business unit results, e.g., SKU rationalization, proposes changes to current products/facilities plan program based on constant changing conditions of demand, customer locations, supplier locations, and plant restrictions.
• Creates and communicates the detailed materials plan.
• Understands the financial consequences of the constrained supply plan and the underlying volume and financial assumptions, including risks and opportunities; influences gap‑closing proposals, agreeing relevant actions.
• Establishes and manages rules of service level agreements and allocation for demand and supply networks.
• Develops and builds teams – encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members.
• Works closely with cross departmental teams to provide efficient and effective options to external and internal customers.
• Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization’s policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and overseeing training processes; maintaining staff job results by planning, assigning, and directing work; coaching, counseling, appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.
• Develops and tracks metrics, including external benchmarks, to monitor performance and allow for data‑driven decision making.
• Generates and monitors KPIs defined for maintaining logistic performance as company needed.

• Bilingual in English/Spanish is required (supporting plants in Mexico).
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field required. Equivalent combination of education and experience 5‑10 years.
• Minimum of 5+ years of experience in multi‑plant manufacturing sites with high‑volume production and a minimum of 3 years in a leadership role.
• Demonstrated team facilitation skills and success in implementing process improvements in conjunction with employee work teams.
• Superior problem‑solving and solid analytical skills (quantitative and qualitative).
• Ability to lead, motivate, select, train and instruct personnel.
• Demonstrated ability to…