Strategic Enterprise Planning & Optimization Lead

Walsworth; White Pigeon Township (MI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Walsworth is seeking a Manager - Enterprise Planning & Optimization to lead planning and optimization across the enterprise, ensuring reliable customer delivery and balanced workloads. You will drive product-to-plant mapping, scheduling governance, logistics alignment, and MIS/ERP integration while preparing for future automation.

You will collaborate with multiple departments, develop executive dashboards, and establish KPIs for capacity utilization, bottlenecks, and service-level impacts.

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.
• 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.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Communication

Strategic planning

Operational execution

Scheduling

Logistics

ERP/MIS systems

Analytics dashboards

Forecasting

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Business/Operations/Supply Chain

MBA

Tools

ERP/MIS planning systems

Analytics dashboards

Microsoft Office

Job description

Walsworth is seeking a Manager - Enterprise Planning & Optimization to lead planning and optimization across the enterprise, ensuring reliable customer delivery and balanced workloads. You will drive product-to-plant mapping, scheduling governance, logistics alignment, and MIS/ERP integration while preparing for future automation.

You will collaborate with multiple departments, develop executive dashboards, and establish KPIs for capacity utilization, bottlenecks, and service-level impacts.