Global Planning Manager

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The Global Planning Manager role plays a key role in maximizing our growth, operating profit, and financial returns through a portfolio of global products and assets. The Global Planning Manager partners with Product Management and Operations Leadership to drive planning and execution through all horizons, focused on priorities, business rules and go-to-market strategies. Success in this role will require the Global Planning Manager to develop a deep understanding of the planning/scheduling processes, product lines, technologies, operational assets, and operational capabilities, across a global, matrixed organization.

The Global Planning Manager will leverage a solid understanding of the financial impacts of various decisions to maximize the financial performance of each asset within their area of responsibility, as well as intimate understanding of product specifications, capacities and capabilities of asset groupings and labor requirements to drive supply trade-offs and future investment requirements. The Global Planning Manager is responsible for the Supply of a portfolio of products and assets, including new business opportunities (NBOs) and new product launches.

The Global Planning Manager will have high visibility with Leadership in all Sales and Operations planning and execution meetings for relevant portfolio, and work in close collaboration with Product Management, Operations, Sales and Technology & Innovation to manage the product lines and assets in accordance with strategic business goals. 

You will have the opportunity to:

• Deliver portfolio demand and supply plans through all planning horizons that drive portfolio operational plans and execution, with accountability to assist and manage the identification and resolution of plan variances, inventory, cost and service optimization in alignment to the business objectives. Global Planning Manager advises Product Management on capabilities and trade-offs in the portfolio in shaping of business rules required for Supply Plan and resultant required order entry. Secures Leadership go-forward consensus plans in collaboration with Product Management. Understands capacity limitations and ensures short term forecasts have accurate ‘constrained’ views. 

• Have a wider view of all Elmore Metal Asset Groups that affect own portfolio planning and execution to drive best scenario outcome with other Global Planners- Identifies, resolves or escalates between-portfolio challenges and quantifies impact. escalating to Product Management, Supply Chain Management and Leadership. Looks to maximize financial returns and improved profitability per production hour through cost improvements and throughput increases. 

• Drive execution of go-to-market strategy and internal supply requirements. Works with Supply Chain Planning and Inventory Management to drive the rightsizing of the working capital components needed to support portfolio strategic business goals.  Continually pursue opportunities to reduce working capital to minimize % as percent of sales. 

• Manage Production Control Managers of multiple sites under value stream portfolio groupings Asset Grouping to execute and drive execution horizon- intermediate production levels, production order scheduling, communicate order late risk as well as ensure consistent and accurate work cell system data such as work center capacity, and planned outages. Escalates impact concerns and true view of the production floor (production plan adherence) to Operations and Supply Chain management Expected to be called upon weekly (Monthly, Quarterly) to report directly to Leadership on progress to forecast and trade-off planning and execution scenarios.

• In conjunction with Product Management, develop relationships with strategic customers/distributors to drive planning and execution of new business opportunities (NBOs), new product/services from T&I, resolution of larger specification and quality concerns. The Global Planning Manager is also the supply chain contact and resource for specific value-stream/portfolio strategic customer meetings or escalations.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Preferred: MBA in Supply Chain, Operations Management, or Business Management -OR- commensurate experience in production environments.

• Required: Experience as either Master Planner, Senior Planner, Supply Chain Manager, Product Manager or Operations/Quality Manager

• Preferred: Experience as Supply Chain Manager AND product manager

• Years of Experience: 10

Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Leadership and Talent Development:

• The ability to develop and lead high performing teams through instilling trust and empowering team members.

• Ability to train, coach and mentor team members and stakeholders through change and development.

• Is able to effectively communicate and set clear direction.

Analytical Thinking:

• Evaluate scenarios with attention to detail in with end-to-end supply chain impact in mind.

• Ability to understand, refine and train algorithms to aid in analysis and scenario planning.

Systems and Processes:

• Experience with end-to-end ERP systems required. SAP preferred.

• Direct experience working with operations management to convert plans to a detail schedule.

• Demonstrated experience in Lean manufacturing methods.

Influencing:

• Builds excellent relationships with key internal and external customers based on trust and confidence.

• Teaching/educating/coaching/mentoring team members and stakeholders toward desired business outcomes.

• Influential and charismatic, especially with decision makers and operational teams.

• Ability to work under pressure and to drive change and development

The selection of the person to be hired for this position is contingent on the candidate having export compliance eligibility for access to U.S. controlled technology which comes under the licensing jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of State, International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and the U.S. Department of Commerce, Export Administration Regulations (EAR).

The candidate selected will have to qualify as either a U.S. citizen, a U.S. National, a lawful permanent resident of the U.S., a Person Admitted into the U.S. as an Asylee or Refugee., a National of a country that is not prohibited from having access to U.S. controlled technology (via a letter of assurance), or a Person to be approved for an export license by the governing agency whose technology comes under its jurisdiction. Please understand that any job offer that requires approval of an export license will be conditional on Materion’s determination that it will be able to obtain an export license in a time frame consistent with Materion’s business requirements.

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