Senior Production Planner

Key Role in Driving Business Success

The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in ensuring the smooth delivery of goods to customers. As part of the COO's leadership team, this role is responsible for translating customer demand into an actionable delivery plan.

Responsibilities include coordinating the planning team across all products and projects to create and maintain a deliverable production, supply chain, and logistics plan that aligns with commercial demand and business objectives.

As the company's planning leader, the primary focus is on ensuring that the master schedule for each manufacturing plant and the supply is created in a timely manner, communicated effectively, and updated and managed on a regular basis.

Additional responsibilities include managing stock items being manufactured and procured on time alongside the production plan for new product introduction (NPI), to ensure the smooth introduction of new products across multiple phases.

This role requires close collaboration with commercial, procurement, and operations teams to lead the production and delivery planning function to deliver business operational and financial objectives.

Key performance indicators include inventory policies meeting both customer service requirements and overall business working capital objectives.

Day-to-Day Activities:

Lead the translation of commercial demand into a delivery plan.

Create and maintain a Master Schedule to operate across multiple manufacturing plants and supply chain.

Translate the master schedule to a dynamic and efficient production schedule through a team of Production Planning Specialists and Embedded Planners.

Provide operational and systems guidance, direction, and leadership within the planning team to ensure a consistent approach to planning activities.

Represent planning within the business and the monthly integrated business planning (IBP) cycle.

Support business growth by coordinating aggregated capacity requirements over the rolling 0–24-month horizon.

Define, develop, and communicate planning policies.

Avoid methodical approaches to ensure tasks are completed with a high degree of accuracy consistently.

Ability to work calmly to deadlines with a flexible approach.

About You

Required Skills and Qualifications:

Thorough understanding of planning principles, ideally supported with a relevant professional qualification.

Deep understanding of manufacturing processes and routing, ideally within the metallic precision manufacturing space.

Experienced in working within an agile, fast-paced environment with a strong on-time delivery mindset.

Expert communicator and comfortable flexing between layers of management.

Excellent leadership and management capability.

Good knowledge and understanding of metallic precision manufacturing techniques and processes.

Familiarity with project management techniques and stage gate processes for the introduction of new engineering and automotive products.

Competent user of Microsoft Office suite.

Role Impact

Working Relations Expected Decision Making/Problem Solving:

You will build appropriate professional, collaborative, friendly, and accessible relationships with your team, peers, and line managers.

Represent the planning function, interfacing with commercial, finance, project management, engineering, and operations colleagues.

Some elements of the role will be customer-facing.

Take the initiative to not only identify risks but also offer solutions.

Provide robust solutions to achieve business objectives based on demonstrated capacity and supported by the wider supply chain.

Manage own time to ensure department and business requirements are met.

Work independently and as part of the wider planning function.