Planning Manager

Planning Manager

Salary: Competitive and based on experience

Location: Birmingham

Keywords: Planning, Management, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Operations

Our client is seeking a highly organised Planning Manager with a knack for managing multiple projects and tasks simultaneously. This role offers an exciting opportunity to take charge of all planning and procurement activities, ensuring customer requirements are met within agreed targets. The successful candidate will have the chance to work in a dynamic environment, liaising with various departments and managing relationships with suppliers. This role calls for excellent internal communication skills, commercial awareness, and strong personal impact.

What you'll do:

As a Planning Manager, you will be responsible for managing all planning and procurement activities. Your role will involve managing production planners, creating manufacturing projections on stock, implementing model specs within the workflow, supporting new product development, managing supplier relationships, generating capacity plans, and developing the planning and procurement teams. You will play a crucial role in ensuring that customer requirements are met within agreed targets.

• Manage production planners to ensure plans reflect customer requirements
• Create and maintain Manufacturing projections on stock
• Implement and control model specs within the workflow from set up to production samples
• Support New Product Development by creating ramp up plans, pilot builds, sample builds and full production
• Manage relationships with suppliers to ensure continuity of supply for all components and factored products
• Generate capacity plans for specific bottleneck assembly operations to identify potential problem areas
• Develop planning and procurement teams through regular reviews

What you bring:

The ideal Planning Manager will bring a wealth of experience in managing multiple projects simultaneously. You will be highly organised with strong problem-solving skills. Your ability to build relationships across all departments in the business will be key to ensuring excellent internal communications. You will have a track record of developing continually improving planning and procurement teams. Your wide commercial awareness and understanding will be essential in this role.

• Ability to manage numerous projects, tasks simultaneously
• Highly organised with root cause analysis and problem-solving skills
• Ability to build relationships with all departments in the business
• Able to develop continually improving planning and procurement team
• Ability to communicate clearly at all levels of the business
• Wide commercial awareness and understanding

What sets this company apart:

Our client is renowned for their commitment to excellence and innovation. They offer a supportive work environment where teamwork is encouraged, growth opportunities are abundant, and hard work is recognised. Their focus on continual improvement means you'll be part of a company that embraces new ideas and fresh perspectives.

What's next:

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