Senior Planner (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 Senior that will handle the overseeing, coordinating, and managing planning activities within an organization.. The job is an Onsite arrangement, and the office is located in Quezon City, Philippines.
Job Summary:
The Senior planner will be responsible in ensuring projects or operations meet deadlines, budgets, and organizational goals. The role often requires strategic thinking, analytical skills, and the ability to collaborate across departments. This position requires strong analytical, organizational, and leadership skills to handle complex planning tasks and drive continuous improvement.
Main responsibilities:
* Plans, schedules, coordinates and/or monitors final approval of products through the complete production cycle.
* Coordinates production plans to ensure materials are provided according to schedules.
* 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
* coordinate product transfer activities between sites to ensure best practices are exercised in a standard and uniform way across all sites
* Provides input to management; schedules and/or interfaces with marketing, sales, production and engineering managers.
* Works to resolve (in case of design changes) labor and material shortages, backlogs and other potential schedule interruptions.
* Analyzes long lead time parts and works with purchasing to develop custom supply solutions (e.g. point-of-use material, line-side stocking, kanban, min-max supply, etc.)
* Other duties as assigned.
Qualification:
* College /Bachelor of Science degree in Operations Management, Finance, Materials Management, Computer Information Sciences, or Engineering, or equivalent education and/or experience.
* Preferably with MBA or post-graduate degree.
* Prefer American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS) or CPM certification. .
* Minimum of five (5) years of production planning or material management experience in a dynamic manufacturing environment
* Proven track record of success and growth in positions of increasing responsibility.
* Experience in a high mix/low volume, pull-based manufacturing environment.
* Previous experience with SAP/IBP
* Adhere to organizational requirements on quality management, health and safety, code of conduct, legal stipulations, environmental, 5S policies and general duty of care.
