Planning Manager

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Planning Manager 

Location: Pioltello (MI)
Reporting To: Supply Chain Manager

At Lynxeo, we are ready to electrify the industry. This means supporting equipment manufacturers with customized cabling and connectivity solutions that meet all their needs in energy, data transmission, and automation.Our company is experiencing double-digit growth, with strong prospects for expansion and an international presence that keeps us close to our customers. We design and manufacture cables as well as complex solutions for industrial clients. With a balanced presence between Western Europe and Asia, and recent investments in Poland and the United States, our human-sized company combines local support with global reach. Speed, responsiveness, simplicity, and pragmatism are at the heart of everything we do. 

The Planning Manager is responsible for sequencing operations (prioritization and consolidation) as well as monitoring their execution. They create the Master Production Schedule (MPS), manage available-to-sell inventory, and confirm delivery times to customers.

Roles

Master Production Schedule (MPS) Creation

• Develops and proposes weekly operational production plans for the site based on customer needs and the results of the previous plan; measures plant workload.
• Ensures the feasibility of the plan by identifying capacities, resources, and available inventory.
• Participates in the MPS meeting and, after validation, implements and monitors the production plan, checks its compliance with work orders, and releases work orders.
• Supervises, with production and support teams (maintenance, quality, etc.), the daily monitoring of plan execution, regularly ensuring commitments and inventory levels are met. In this context, participates in the development and monitoring of corrective and improvement actions and in customer communication.
• Prioritizes work orders to reduce launch costs and optimize logistics costs.
• Handles alerts.
• Closes work orders.
• Reports deviations according to severity in case of delays.
• Leads the daily backlog follow-up meeting.
• Leads the weekly workload meeting.

Performance Monitoring

• Manages the team of Planning Coordinators.
• Is responsible for the adherence rate to the production plan.
• Ensures product availability on scheduled shipping dates. Minimizes volume/inventory standard deviations or lead time/customer commitment deviations.
• Updates resource requirement tables and production schedules based on MPS decisions.
• Is responsible for the reliability of the data used.
• Optimizes resource allocation.
• Contributes to achieving OTIF (On Time In Full), analyzes delays, and implements action plans to reduce non-OTIF.

Application of Standards

• Can assess the importance or criticality of deviations from a standard and addresses them.
• Ensures standards are applied within their scope.
• Is a realistic and feasible source of proposals to correct deviations (e.g., bill of materials).

Continuous Improvement

• Regularly suggests improvement proposals within their scope.
• Provides and explains initial continuous improvement elements to their team.
• Communicates widely on progress made following initiated changes.
• Formalizes and shares improvement proposals within their scope.

Team Life

• Works in the collective interest of the site.
• Works with production, considering their constraints.
• Works cross-functionally, considering constraints from other areas (sales, production, etc.).

Profile

• From 3 to 5 years of professional experience, preferably in the industry sector, in supply chain fields and in an international environment.
• Strong communication skills, with a proactive, enthusiastic, and problem-solving mindset.
• Strong team orientation and the ability to collaborate effectively across different departments, especially with the Production Office, to achieve shared goals.
• English knowledge
• SAP