Materials Planning Manager

About this Position Accountable for leading, coaching, and developing a team of Material Planners to ensure robust, accurate, and timely mid- and short-term Material Planning for the coming 0-18 months. Responsible for creating team capability, optimizing planning performance, ensuring supply continuity, and aligning planning outcomes with S&OP, Supply Review, and business priorities.

What you ́ll do Leadership & People Development:

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Material Planners, building capability in mid- and short-term material planning.

Set clear performance expectations, conduct regular 1:1s, and ensure effective performance management, coaching, and skills development.

• Ensure adequate resource allocation, workflow prioritization, and resilience within the planning team.
• Drive team engagement and foster a culture of collaboration, ownership, and continuous improvement.

Governance:

• Oversee development of feasible, optimized Material Plan.
• Ensure application of Material Planning standards and correct modeling of supplier capacities.
• Review and validate planning outputs, highlighting risks, opportunities, and scenario impacts to leadership and S&OP teams.
• Secure alignment of material planning with production planning, inventory policy, and network constraints.

Issue Resolution & Escalation Management

• Act as the point-of-escalation for supplier constraints impacting mid- or short-term horizons.
• Work with S&OP Manager, Production Schedulers, Material Planners, and Operations to resolve major constraints and propose options with quantified impact.
• Ensure structured, timely communication to stakeholders and proactive risk mitigation.

Collaboration:

• Close collaboration with internal/external key interfaces, mainly via APS, judging and aligning priorities to meet customer expectations and needs vs. supply chain capabilities; monitor and ensure delivery of other functions commitments.

Continuous Improvement:

• Drive continuous improvement initiatives within planning, including workflow optimization and standardization. and generate new ideas to assist in identifying continuous improvements. Define and execute projects; act as facilitator for roll out of identified regional best practices.

Performance Management:

• Monitor and prioritize own and team’s performance; allocate work and review completion, take appropriate corrective action to ensure the required standards of productivity, timeliness and quality; contribute to formal individual performance management and appraisal; use KPI’s, performance management systems and reports to improve personal and team’s performance.

Time Management & Activities Planning:

• Plan resources/activities according to demand to ensure business continuity, enhance efficiencies and improve service levels. Actively prepare and participate in team meetings to align priorities.

Compliance:

• Ensure that planning activities comply with corporate standards, SHE requirements, and sustainability policies.