Production Planning Manager

DHL Supply Chain; New Whiteland (IN); On-site; Confidential; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive wages

Insurance benefits

401K plan

Paid vacation

Job summary

DHL Supply Chain in Indiana is seeking a Production Planning Manager to lead daily to monthly work streams across inbound, outbound, and returns processing, coordinating production plans with site leadership to meet KPI targets and customer commitments.

You will identify issues, drive continuous improvements, optimize resource planning, and present actionable insights to cross-functional teams, ensuring safe and efficient operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent is required.
• 1-3 years logistics industry experience.
• 2-4 years of supervisory or management experience.
• 1-3 years of customer service or fulfillment center planning.

Responsibilities

• Lead daily/weekly/monthly work streams across inbound, outbound, and returns processing.
• Coordinate production plans with site leadership to meet KPI targets and service levels.
• Identify issues and root causes and implement resolutions throughout operations.
• Interact with customers regularly to review performance and forecasts.
• Facilitate continuous improvement projects within the fulfillment center.
• Administer reports and budget/goals related to production planning.

Skills

Leadership

Forecasting

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Job description

Are you an innovative thinker who can easily prioritize and communicate key points quickly?Do you enjoy identifying issues and root causing problems, and delivering to the customer on-time and on-budget?Do you feel that your skills of thinking outside the box and working across multiple teams, functions, etc. are in need of a new home?

If so, DHL Supply Chain has a place for you.

Job Description

The Production Planning Manager is responsible for leading and managing the daily/weekly/monthly work streams throughout the operation. Areas of focus include, but are not limited to, inbound, outbound, and returns processing. Responsible for the integration and coordination of production plans with leadership throughout the fulfillment center to ensure goals, objectives, and KPI targets are met throughout the business. This includes identifying issues, root causing problems, and resolving issues throughout the operational flow. Interact with the customer on a regular basis to review the sites operational performance, capacity restraint/solutions, and manage the throughput across all work streams of the business. Assist in facilitating and implementing continuous improvement projects throughout the business. The Production Planning Manager will work cohesively with the fulfillment centers leadership (GM’s and OM’s) to ensure associates comply with company policies, procedures, and guidelines to ensure safe, efficient operations and maintain positive working environment.

• Partners with the Operations Team to ensure resource and capacity planning is executed in order to meet designated KPI metrics and service levels, productivity targets, labor efficiency, and operational efficiency.
• Plans, manages, and adjusts workload and shift schedules to optimize fulfillment center resources in order to execute operational and service level requirements.
• Creates and implements predictive analytics based on site trends, and forecasts. Responsible for working daily/weekly with the customer to compare predicted plans, and actual results, to customer provided forecasts.
• Plans and manages fulfillment and returns processing activities to ensure compliance with customer expectations for accuracy, quality, and timeliness. Develops and implements action plans to address fulfillment performance concerns or improve operations. Maintains communication with operations departments and customer planning to ensure business priorities and risks are addressed in a timely manner.
• Supports, facilitates, and implements continuous improvement projects throughout the fulfillment distribution center.
• Manages standard and ad hoc reporting that supports production planning, and communication to the operation and customer. Is involved with managing budget, goals, and specific requirements of the business.
• Communicates, applies, and enforces company philosophies, strategies, policies, procedures, and expectations to workforce staff throughout the distribution center.
• Maximizes quality and productivity by understanding job standards for each function, and evaluating performance variances in order to identify root cause and corrective actions.
• Provides guidance on conveyor safety, sanitation, quality, customer service, and maintenance. Delivers associate orientation, training, performance reviews, and/or development as appropriate. Ensures associates have proper access to necessary tools to perform assigned duties and that tools/equipment are routinely inspected and maintained.

Required Education And Experience

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent, required
• 1-3 years logistics industry experience, required
• 2-4 years of experience in a supervisory or management role, required
• 1-3 years of customer service or fulfillment center planning, required

• competitive wages
• excellent affordable insurance benefits (including health, dental, vision and life)
• 401K plan
• paid vacation and holidays

Our Organization has a business casual environment and focuses on teamwork, associate development, training, and continuous improvement.

Our Organization is an equal opportunity employer.