KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- This is a senior role with responsibility for managing people across two sites, Ballinrobe and Hungary.
- Develop, review, and maintain production plans and schedules in alignment with the Master Production Schedule and plant priorities.
- Manage and maintain demand forecasts, ensuring forecast accuracy, timely updates, and alignment with customer demand patterns, business inputs, and plant capacity constraints.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to evaluate demand changes, capacity limitations, material constraints, and operational risks, and translate those inputs into actionable production plans.
- Reconcile order discrepancies, customer order changes, and shifting priorities to minimize disruption to the production schedule.
- Coordinate price lists, buying groups and dealer setup with the Sales Director and Finance, ensuring approved changes are applied accurately.
- Oversee load lists, freight coordination and the information needed for timely dispatch.
- Communicate with Operations, Purchasing, Sales, Marketing, Engineering, and other stakeholders to ensure alignment on customer priorities, forecast changes, and production requirements.
- Continuously evaluate forecast inputs, demand trends, inventory positions, and capacity availability to recommend schedule and production plan adjustments.
- Continuously evaluate Customer Estimated Ship Dates, re-calculating and updating at key milestones.
- Participate in cross-functional meetings to resolve delayed shipments, component shortages.
- Identify opportunities to improve forecast processes, planning parameters, schedule stability, and overall plant planning effectiveness.
KEY SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in a manufacturing environment.
- Experience in production planning, forecasting, inventory management, MRP, and lean manufacturing processes.
- Strong people management, organisation and communication skills.
- Strong ability to balance supply and demand needs within a dynamic plant environment.
- Demonstrated capability in managing, maintaining, and improving forecasts to support production planning and inventory decisions.
- Ability to make decisions with information based on current plant priorities and market needs.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, multi-tasked manufacturing environment.
- Strong problem-solving, analytical thinking, ownership mindset, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to independently resolve issues.
- Strong data analysis and data manipulation skills to support planning, forecasting, and decision-making.
- Working knowledge of ERP systems, MRP logic, and production planning processes.
- Understand CPQ systems and workings of same.
- Understanding of product configurations, options, substitutions, and critical functions/components.
- Strong customer service orientation with a commitment to supporting internal and external customer requirements.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively across multiple functions and levels of the organization.
- Ability to identify risks proactively and develop practical solutions to maintain schedule performance and customer commitments.
COMPANY BENEFITS
- Competitive salary based on experience.
- Learning, development, and career progression opportunities.
- Company subsidised Health Insurance for employee and family.
- Company pension scheme.
- Subsidised canteen & onsite parking.