A Demand Planning Manager manages demand planning and produces customer and product forecasts. Researches and analyzes sales trends and other factors related to demand planning, and manages forecasting processes and reporting.
As the Manager - Enterprise Planning & Optimization, you will lead enterprise-level planning and optimization to ensure reliable customer delivery, balanced workloads, and cost-effective operations in partnership with many departments across the organization. You will drive optimization initiatives such as product-to-plant mapping, scheduling governance, logistics alignment, and MIS/ERP integration while preparing for future automation.
Essential Functions:
Oversee enterprise scheduling governance and master scheduling standards. Direct MIS integration (Monarch Go Live) into scheduling and logistics workflows. Partner with the Marceline Scheduling Supervisor to ensure tactical stability while driving strategic orchestration of yearbook planning and delivery. Lead product-to-plant mapping, enterprise intake, cross plant scheduling logic, and enterprise continuous improvement. Develop executive dashboards and reports for capacity utilization, bottlenecks, and service-level impacts. Integrate scheduling governance with logistics to unify order-to-ship customer promises. Develop platform planning automation and enterprise decisions tools. Partner with MIS/ERP stakeholders to ensure optimization logic aligns with future technology upgrades and automation opportunities. Facilitate cross-functional executive reviews to support planning and optimization performance, forecast accuracy, and tradeoff decisions to strategic business goals. Develop capital plan, performance standards, and KPIs for enterprise planning and optimization. All other duties as assigned.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Strong cross-functional leadership and communication skills. Ability to balance strategic planning with operational execution. Expertise in scheduling, logistics, and enterprise optimization. Proficiency in Microsoft Office, ERP/MIS planning systems, and analytics dashboards. Skilled in scenario modeling, forecasting, and decision support.
Working Conditions/Physical Demands:
Office and plant floor environments; travel to plants as needed. Capable of working in stressful conditions balancing competing priorities across enterprise manufacturing sites
Minimum Requirements:
Bachelor's Degree in Business, Operations, or Supply Chain required; MBA preferred. 8+ years in operations, planning, or scheduling with enterprise-level responsibility.
