Manager - Enterprise Planning & Optimization (61758)

Walsworth; Ripon (WI); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Walsworth in Ripon, WI seeks a Manager - Enterprise Planning & Optimization to lead enterprise planning and optimization across multiple departments, ensuring reliable customer delivery, balanced workloads, and cost-effective operations. You will drive initiatives such as product-to-plant mapping, scheduling governance, logistics alignment, and MIS/ERP integration.

You will prepare for future automation, develop dashboards, and guide executive reviews to support strategic goals and performance

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Operations, or Supply Chain required.
• MBA preferred.
• 8+ years in operations, planning, or scheduling with enterprise-level responsibility.

Responsibilities

• Oversee enterprise scheduling governance and master scheduling standards.
• Direct MIS integration into scheduling and logistics workflows.
• Lead product-to-plant mapping and enterprise scheduling logic.
• Develop executive dashboards for capacity utilization and bottlenecks.
• Integrate scheduling governance with logistics to unify order-to-ship promises.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Strategic planning

Operational execution

Scheduling & logistics

Scenario modeling

Forecasting

Decision support

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business/Operations/Supply Chain

MBA preferred

Tools

ERP/MIS planning systems

Microsoft Office

Analytics dashboards

Job description

Job Summary:

As the Manager - Enterprise Planning & Optimization, you will lead enterprise-level planning and optimization to ensure reliable customer delivery, balanced workloads, and cost-effective operations in partnership with many departments across the organization. You will drive optimization initiatives such as product-to-plant mapping, scheduling governance, logistics alignment, and MIS/ERP integration while preparing for future automation.

Essential Functions:

• Oversee enterprise scheduling governance and master scheduling standards.


• Direct MIS integration (Monarch Go Live) into scheduling and logistics workflows.


• Partner with the Marceline Scheduling Supervisor to ensure tactical stability while driving strategic orchestration of yearbook planning and delivery.


• Lead product-to-plant mapping, enterprise intake, cross plant scheduling logic, and enterprise continuous improvement.


• Develop executive dashboards and reports for capacity utilization, bottlenecks, and service-level impacts.


• Integrate scheduling governance with logistics to unify order-to-ship customer promises.


• Develop platform planning automation and enterprise decisions tools.


• Partner with MIS/ERP stakeholders to ensure optimization logic aligns with future technology upgrades and automation opportunities.


• Facilitate cross-functional executive reviews to support planning and optimization performance, forecast accuracy, and tradeoff decisions to strategic business goals.


• Develop capital plan, performance standards, and KPIs for enterprise planning and optimization.


• All other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Strong cross-functional leadership and communication skills.


• Ability to balance strategic planning with operational execution.


• Expertise in scheduling, logistics, and enterprise optimization.


• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, ERP/MIS planning systems, and analytics dashboards.


• Skilled in scenario modeling, forecasting, and decision support.

Working Conditions/Physical Demands:

• Office and plant floor environments; travel to plants as needed.


• Capable of working in stressful conditions balancing competing priorities across enterprise manufacturing sites

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Operations, or Supply Chain required; MBA preferred.


• 8+ years in operations, planning, or scheduling with enterprise-level responsibility.