Global Planning Manager (Quezon City, Philippines)
Executive search firm Monroe Consulting Group Philippines is recruiting on behalf of a prominent and established manufacturing company in the Philippines. Our respected client is seeking for a Global Planning Manager that will be responsible for developing global supply chain plans across all the factories. The job is an Onsite arrangement, and the office is located in Quezon City, Philippines.
Job Summary:
The Global Planning Manager will be responsible for the strategic development and management of mid to long-term supply plans to ensure the timely and efficient fulfillment of demand. This individual will require a deep understanding of supply chain dynamics and the ability to coordinate with various stakeholders to align supply chain activities with overarching business objectives. The position is critical in optimizing manufacturing levels, enhancing supply chain efficiency, and supporting the overall business strategy through effective planning and execution.
Main responsibilities
Process and Improvement
- Leading and managing a local planning team to develop and maintain comprehensive supply plans on the mid to long term, ensuring alignment with demand plans and global business objectives before communicating them to stakeholders and local planning teams for execution:
- Map factories capacities (mainline, sub-assemblies, equipment, direct labor, …)
- Understand supply constraints including material availabilities
- Produce medium to long term manufacturing plans considering CTB and factory capacities
- Drive the Customer commit process
- Handover manufacturing plans to the local teams for short term execution
- Drive demand review process (demand changes, Forecast accuracy)
- Support the preparation and execution of the S&OP process
- Support customer escalations
- Ensure system parameters are correctly configured
- Monitoring and analyzing key performance indicators (KPIs) to track supply chain performance, identify areas for improvement, and implement corrective actions as needed.
- Assisting in developing annual and strategic plans, reconciling them with monetized S&OP plans. Drive resolution of gaps and communicate and escalate critical gaps in the S&OP process.
- Developing monthly S&OP input (medium- or long-term demand and supply plans and working capital position) and work with cross-functional S&OP team to evaluate multiple options and transparently communicate options, making recommendations where appropriate. Ensure the S&OP process is defined, implemented, and meets the required standards, with a maturity improvement plan in place
- Drive and coordinate product transfer activities between sites to ensure best practices are exercised in a standard and uniform way across all sites
- Implementing best practices and continuous improvement initiatives to enhance supply chain processes, leveraging advanced planning systems and tools to improve accuracy and responsiveness.
- Identifying and mitigating potential risks to the supply plan, developing contingency plans to ensure supply continuity in the event of disruptions.
- Leading and mentoring a team of supply planners, providing guidance and support to ensure high performance and professional growth, and developing training programs to enhance the skills and capabilities of the supply planning team.
- Assessing current performance and lead end-to-end (E2E) process optimization, to reduce overall E2E lead-times, maintain customer on-time delivery, and improve fulfillment and value chain visibility.
Influencer/Collaborator
- Coordinating with the local planning teams as well as Global procurement, production, logistics, finance and sales teams to ensure supply chain activities and strategies are synchronized and potential disruptions proactively managed.
- Developing and Coaching a team of planners to continually drive them to excellence
Tracker of Information/Converter of Information
- Ensuring that demand and supply plans are shared/received in the format, level of detail and timing required by all customers and supply chain partners, with documented assumptions, to achieve the various business objectives.
- Owning and analyzing supply and manufacturing performance scorecard.
- Identifying analytical and reporting needs and support the delivery of those indicators to the business
Innovator/Decision Maker
- Contributing to cross-functional initiatives for optimizing customer on-time delivery, lead-time, forecast accuracy and resource utilization. Demonstrate sound business decision making aligned with company goals.
Qualification:
- Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineer
- Licensed Civil Engineer
- At least 10 years of experience in project management and design evaluation
- Knowledgeable in of national building code, national structural code, etc.
- Must be excellent in vendor management
