Strategic Production Planning Lead

HBK - Hottinger Brüel & Kjær; Kongens Lyngby; Vor Ort; DKK 900.000 - 1.100.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

HBK - Hottinger Brüel & Kjær is seeking an experienced Production Planning Manager to lead the Planning Team and ensure efficient, reliable production planning. You will cover day-to-day leadership, oversee capacity management, prioritisation, MRP and data analysis to translate customer demand into robust production plans.

The role interfaces with Production, Order Management, Customer Care and Logistics to identify constraints, manage priorities and resolve issues before they affect customers.

Qualifikationen

• Proven experience in production planning, master production scheduling or a similar planning role.
• Experience leading and developing a team, preferably in a production environment.
• Strong understanding of production capacity, material availability, MRP and order fulfilment.
• Good working knowledge of SAP S/4HANA or a similar ERP system.

Aufgaben

• Lead and develop the Production Planning team, ensuring clear priorities, responsibilities and ways of working.
• Support and coach planners in their daily work and ensure consistent execution of planning processes.
• Manage workload and priorities within the team according to business needs.
• Build strong collaboration between Production Planning and Production, Supply Chain, Logistics, Order Management and Customer Care.
• Ensure effective production planning based on demand, capacity and material availability.
• Review and challenge production plans to ensure they are realistic and aligned with customer requirements.
• Manage production priorities, customer orders and backlogs.
• Lead and support allocation decisions when required, ensuring available capacity and materials are prioritised effectively.
• Monitor capacity and identify constraints, bottlenecks and potential delivery risks.
• Analyse MRP messages and material shortages and ensure appropriate actions are taken.
• Manage planning issues and escalations, supporting the team in finding practical solutions and workarounds when required.
• Ensure accurate and timely master data and planning parameters.
• Use data and KPIs to monitor planning performance and identify improvement opportunities.
• Analyse production and delivery performance and take action where targets are not met.
• Use Excel extensively to analyse data, identify trends and support planning decisions.
• Use SAP S/4HANA to manage and follow up on production planning activities and planning data.
• Ensure production plans are aligned with inventory targets and customer service requirements.
• Identify and address risks related to excess inventory, material shortages and obsolete stock.
• Work closely with the SIOP team to align demand, supply, capacity and inventory.
• Identify and help mitigate supply and capacity gaps.
• Drive continuous improvement within production planning processes, systems and ways of working.
• Identify opportunities to improve planning accuracy, standardisation, efficiency and data quality.
• Challenge existing processes and implement practical improvements that create value for the business.
• Support the development of a more structured, data-driven and proactive planning function.

Kenntnisse

Production planning

Team leadership

MRP

Inventory management

Excel

Data analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Stakeholder management

Tools

SAP S/4HANA

Jobbeschreibung

HBK - Hottinger Brüel & Kjær is seeking an experienced Production Planning Manager to lead the Planning Team and ensure efficient, reliable production planning. You will cover day-to-day leadership, oversee capacity management, prioritisation, MRP and data analysis to translate customer demand into robust production plans.

The role interfaces with Production, Order Management, Customer Care and Logistics to identify constraints, manage priorities and resolve issues before they affect customers.