Key Duties & Responsibilities:
- Leading planning team responsible for all line planning within the business. Ensuring team operate in line with the business standards and behaviours.
- Responsible for all aspects of production planning to ensure financial business plan targets are met for operations. Production planning, including PTS execution, Pipeline, Production execution (sequencing), Production Planning (MPS), Launch & Q content
- Ensuring planning/SC KPIs around plan stability, plan adherence & timely passing cars to sales
- Aligning planning with S/OP cycle
- Supporting in the development of planning scenarios to support business decisions
- Developing and running a formal production planning process, including Trim/Final, Tubs, Paint.
- Working with Manufacturing engineering to develop the Manufacturing Strategy in line with business plan requirements. (input into factory planning/capacity)
- Working with finance to develop Operations budget and forecasting, ensuring that factory planning works within targets set out by the business
- Lead Factory Planning ensuring that all aspects of operations are operating at the most cost-effective solution by setting and agreeing daily throughput rates.
- Working with Demand planner to ensure all SOA (amendments) process are planned correctly to avoid downtime
- Working with Q team to ensure MPS plan fits in and aligns to Q leadtime/constraints
- Liaising with sub-contract manufactures to ensure build plans align internal build plans and with PTS plan
- Develop and maintain Capacity tracking for all operations within manufacturing & Logistics working with Manufacturing, Manufacturing Engineering and LLP (lead log. Provider - DHL).
- Working with Manufacturing Engineering & Launch to ensure launch planning is built into production plans. Establish the resources and strategy required to deliver current/new model content into production
- Working with IT to develop and maintain Operations Status Reporting using latest business intelligence toolset. (currently Power BI/SSRS - moving to Burst)
- Owner of the Planning processes and planning data within the company ERP system
- Ensure the standardisation of core processes & all data is held on the departments SharePoint.
Qualification & Experience:
- Significant experience across Supply Chain functional areas and demonstrated ability to understand and manage complex supply chains
- Deep understanding of planning processes and materials management
- Experience in automotive planning
- Management of a team
- Experience in successfully liaising and influencing a wide range of stakeholders
- Ability to operate at different levels of the business
- Ability to communicate, Summarize complex information
- Bachelor's degree in Business or STEM subject
- Microsoft excel
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