Production Planning Lead

The Role

The Production Planning Lead will oversee a team of Planners and Buyers who are responsible for translating customer demand into actionable production schedules while ensuring raw material availability to support these production plans. The ideal candidate will possess strong leadership skills and a commitment to continuous improvement in planning processes.

Duties

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of Production Planners and Buyers.

• Set clear objectives, priorities, and KPIs for the team and review performance regularly.

• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.• Support recruitment, onboarding, and development of new team members.

• Oversee the translation of customer demand and forecasts into optimised weekly and daily production schedules.

• Ensure Planners have considered key capacity constraints, product priorities, and service commitments.

• Work closely with Production to align q...