Global Production Planner

Cpl Group; Connacht; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Pension scheme

Career progression

Canteen facilities

Onsite parking

Job summary

Cpl Group seeks an experienced Senior Production Planning Manager in Ireland to lead planning for Ballinrobe and Hungary. You will develop and optimize production schedules, forecast accuracy, and inventory alignment with demand, capacity, and customer needs.

Lead a cross-functional team to balance supply and demand, drive schedule stability, and improve forecasting processes in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Ability to balance supply and demand in a dynamic plant environment.
• Demonstrated capability in managing and improving forecasts to support production planning and inventory decisions.
• Ability to make decisions with information based on current plant priorities and market needs.
• Thrives in a fast-paced, multi-tasked manufacturing environment.
• Strong problem-solving, analytical thinking, ownership mindset, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Production planning

Forecasting

Inventory management

MRP

Lean manufacturing

People management

ERP systems

CPQ systems

Data analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Decision making

Schedule optimization

Tools

ERP systems

MRP

CPQ systems

Job description

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.