Head of Planning

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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