Planning Manager

Ready to elevate your Planning Manager expertise? Emerson has an incredible opportunity for you! Based in our Ontario, Ohio location, you will drive consistent, world-class material practices that drive consistency and excellence across our operations. Apply now and take your career to new heights with Emerson!

In this Role, Your Responsibilities Will Be:


* Responsible for developing department processes and procedures to meet or exceed service levels and plant sales commitments, minimize past due deliveries to customers, optimize production plans to be efficient and achievable ensuring accurate promise dates to customers.

This includes building master schedules with capacity planning to honor customer commitments with minimum overtime


* Lead, coach and mentor the Production Planning team to ensure they are successfully coordinating production workflow, schedule orders accurately, and support any special quote requests for all products manufactured at Ontario facilit  


* Serve as escalation point of contact for with sales, product management, customer care and manufacturing departments for supporting customer and business needs. 


* Lead and collaborate cross-functionally to build production plans that allocate resources to best serve customer needs with responsible inventory planning.


* Build processes to integrate sales orders with master schedule, coordinate availability of raw materials, using sound judgement and available data to anticipate demand and take actions


* Collaborate closely with the purchasing team to support materials available to support customer sales orders and production schedules.


* Participate in monthly supply and demand, production planning, ONT staff meetings and other meetings with sales, product management, production and other related departments.


* Collaborate and lead efforts to optimize Oracle and other systems set-ups, including seeing opportunities to automate processes to allow more focus on decision-making
 

Who You Are:

You create and implement plans that allocate resources precisely.  You show a tremendous amount of initiative in tough situations and are exceptional at spotting and seizing opportunities.  You formulate a clear strategy and map daring steps that will accelerate the organization toward its goals.

For This Role, You Will Need:


* Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university - Minimum 3 years’ experience in planning, supply chain or similar field or - HS diploma/GED with 5+ years of experience in Materials Management and/or Project Management in a manufacturing/warehouse environment using ERP systems


* 2 years experience in a supervisory role


* 3 years in a lean discrete manufacturing environment


* Strong 360-degree written and oral communication skills


* Strong analytical skills to manipulate data to find patterns to drive improvements


* Proficient in Microsoft Products and production planning syst...