Manager Enterprise Planning & Optimization (61758)

Job Summary:

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:

• Bachelors Degree in Business Operations or Supply Chain required; MBA preferred.
• 8 years in operations planning or scheduling with enterprise-level responsibility.