Production Planning Lead – APS & SAP S/4HANA

Georg Fischer; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Georg Fischer is seeking a Planning Leader to own and continuously improve end-to-end production planning across APS and SAP S/4HANA environments. You will establish planning standards, governance, workflows, and business rules to drive consistency across manufacturing sites.

Collaborating with business and IT, you will deploy and enhance APS solutions, define requirements, and translate data insights into actionable recommendations for leaders, supported by planning metrics and KPI dashboards.

Qualifications

• Experience with end-to-end production planning across APS and SAP S/4HANA environments.
• Ability to establish planning standards, governance, workflows, and business rules.
• Drive process consistency across multiple manufacturing sites.

Responsibilities

• Own and continuously improve end-to-end production planning processes across APS and SAP S/4HANA environments.
• Establish and maintain planning standards, governance, workflows, and business rules.
• Drive process consistency while accommodating operational needs across manufacturing sites.
• Support deployment, stabilization, and enhancement of Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) solutions.
• Partner with business and IT to define requirements, testing strategies, and process improvements.
• Ensure systems reflect manufacturing constraints, capacities, and business priorities.
• Develop and maintain planning metrics, reports, and dashboards for operational decision-making.
• Monitor KPIs including schedule attainment, inventory levels, and capacity utilization.
• Translate data insights into actionable recommendations for business leaders.

Skills

Production planning

Governance & standards

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

SAP S/4HANA

APS

Job description

Georg Fischer is seeking a Planning Leader to own and continuously improve end-to-end production planning across APS and SAP S/4HANA environments. You will establish planning standards, governance, workflows, and business rules to drive consistency across manufacturing sites.

Collaborating with business and IT, you will deploy and enhance APS solutions, define requirements, and translate data insights into actionable recommendations for leaders, supported by planning metrics and KPI dashboards.