Network Planning Manager - Supply Chain Planning & Execution

Eaton Corporation; Wrocław; On-site; PLN 260,000 - 380,000; Full time

Job summary

Eaton Corporation in Wroclaw, Poland seeks a Supply Chain Network Planning Manager to lead a team and drive demand-supply balance across a 0-36 month horizon. You will set guardrails for consensus plans, manage constraints, and optimize inventory and service levels for multiple value streams.

The role requires 8+ years in supply chain planning, strong leadership, and ability to influence across functions. You will partner with operations, warehousing, and procurement to close gaps and deliver

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree or MBA/Masters in Supply Chain/Operations or Engineering.
• 8+ years of supply chain management and planning experience in a global or multi-plant industrial company.
• Experience leading people and influencing cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Network Schedulers/MPS planners for 0-3 month horizon and collaborate with Buyers, Material Planners and Order Managers.
• Manage capacity vs. demand over 0-36 months, flag exceptions and drive solutions.
• Partner with operations, warehousing and procurement to address capacity gaps.
• Create and maintain the consensus supply plan balancing FG inventory and capacity.
• Review and improve inventory performance metrics and liaise with stakeholders to implement actions.
• Provide information for divisional SIOP meetings regarding supply vs. demand.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Data analysis

Scenario planning

Cross-functional collaboration

Storytelling with data

Education

Bachelor or MBA in Supply Chain/Engineering

Tools

Advanced Planning Systems

Job description

The Supply Chain Network Planning Manager is a leading role in the integrated, intelligent and agile supply chain organization, focusing on the full SIOP horizon including execution ( 0-36 months). The Network Planning Manager is responsible for demand-supply balancing for their value stream and providing insights on demand at risk for their respective portfolio. This role focuses on setting and maintaining the guardrails by which the consensus supply plan is generated; taking into consideration constraints, allocation, and prioritization rules for the full horizon, while managing critical exceptions in mid-term.

• Manage a team of Network Schedulers/MPS planners responsible for value stream in the 0-3 months window and functionally collaborate with a team of Buyers, Material Planners and Order Managers.
• Manage capacity vs. demand (0-36 months horizon), flagging any exceptions, driving solutions and decision making to close the gap.
• Partner with operations, warehousing and operational procurement if capacity gaps require escalation.
• Manage replenishment strategy across value stream in line with the inventory policy, and conducts regular parameters audits.
• Create the consensus supply plan, balancing FG inventory and capacity with the objective to meet demand on-time and in full.
• Ensure production schedule adherence and attainment.
• Work with SIOP and business teams to update FG inventory targets and inventory policies.
• Review supply and inventory performance metrics, inventory outlook projection, and identify gaps vs targets & improvement opportunities, and liaise with relevant stakeholders to execute improvement action plans.
• Be accountable for value stream improvements in cash, cost and customer service results.
• Initiate scenario planning to optimize the plan on service, cash and costs.
• Prioritize order allocation in case of supply constraint (affecting more than one market/customer) in collaboration with the Execution Scheduler.
• Provide relevant information to the divisional SIOP meetings regarding supply vs. demand (capacity) and FG inventory performance.

Bachelor degree or preferably MBA/Masters in Supply Chain/Operations or Engineering 8+ years of supply chain management and planning experience for a global or multi-plant industrial company.

• Experience working across supply chain/operations with a proven track record of influencing & delivering results across the end-to-end product and supply chain management processes.
• Experience as a leader of people.
• Ability to manage complex material flows across multi-tier manufacturing & distribution networks.
• Prior experience of Advanced Planning Systems would be a plus.
• Broad foundational technical expertise across areas such as planning, execution, procurement & plant operations.
• Experiencing building strong partnerships and influencing cross functional stakeholders in sales, finance, product line leaders and HR.
• Deep understanding of how supply chain impacts P&L and working capital.
• Ability to analyze, interpret and draw conclusions on large volumes of data.
• Holistic perspective, ability to adapt to different cultures and to get results in a complex environment.
• Influential, visible internal and external leader able to challenge the status quo, motivate and inspire teams to work together to solve complex challenges.
• Must be able to build strong relationships at all levels.
• Storytelling ability using data to generate scenarios, including communicating outcomes to a non-technical audience.

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