Strategic Planning Manager, Aerospace & Defense

Ursa Major; Berthoud (CO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 151,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO - Vacation, Sick, and 0

Paid Parental Leave

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401k with Company Match

Equity Grants

EAP Program

Job summary

Ursa Major in Berthoud, Colorado, is seeking a Planning Manager to build and lead component-level demand, supply, and capacity planning. This people-leader role owns consensus demand and its accuracy metrics, rough-cut capacity planning with Operations, and a feasible supply plan ahead of every Executive SIOP.

You will manage a growing team of planners, drive forecast accuracy, plan adherence, and collaborate with Programs and Operations to resolve bottlenecks.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Operations, Supply Chain, or related field.
• Significant experience in demand planning, supply planning, and capacity planning within a manufacturing environment (aerospace or defense preferred).
• Experience owning forecast accuracy metrics and leading planning cycles.
• Demonstrated ownership of forecast accuracy metrics and consensus demand processes.
• Hands-on experience with RCCP and constrained supply planning with Operations.
• People-leadership experience managing planners or analysts (3–6+ direct reports) in a cross-functional environment.
• Experience working with ERP planning data and master data (e.g., MRP, ATP, lead times) in a regulated or complex manufacturing context.

Responsibilities

• Publish a demand plan by segment every SIOP cycle, aligned to the company calendar.
• Own consensus demand and the demand accuracy metric at the segment level.
• Baseline forecast accuracy and bias, then set and drive improvement targets; monitor MAPE, bias, and related metrics.
• Model capacity, constraints, and material availability to determine what the system can actually produce via the RCCP.
• Produce constrained, feasible supply plans that are signed off before each Executive SIOP and aligned with real capacity, lead times, and material constraints.
• Partner with Operations and Manufacturing to resolve capacity bottlenecks and trade-offs (e.g., resequencing, overtime, outsourcing).
• Define and track plan adherence metrics (e.g., schedule adherence to supply plan) for each segment; baseline and set improvement targets.
• Work with Operations and Programs to address root causes of non-adherence and drive behavior change.
• Validate planning outputs against ERP/master data; trace MRP anomalies to root cause and work with data owners to correct them instead of relying on workarounds.
• Ensure plans respect validated order lead times; prevent commitments outside agreed lead-time assumptions and correct when assumptions change.
• Build controls (validity checks, root-cause analysis, corrective actions) into planning routines to reduce error and increase agility.
• Manage and develop a team of planners
• Act as a player-coach by carrying planning responsibility
• Integrate segment-level outputs (demand, supply, capacity) into the broader SIOP cadence, partnering closely with Planning Operations and analytics teammates.
• Prepare executive-facing materials (dashboards, slide decks, summaries) that make complex planning data understandable and actionable for leadership.
• Lead the transition of available-to-promise and other key planning logic out of spreadsheets and into Odoo, eliminating spreadsheet-validated commitments.
• Identify process and data gaps within planning operations and commercial operations; drive improvements with a focus on automation and reduced manual work.

Skills

Demand planning

Supply planning

Capacity planning

People leadership

ERP planning data

Cross-functional collaboration

Forecast accuracy metrics

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Operations, Supply Chain, or related field

Job description

Ursa Major in Berthoud, Colorado, is seeking a Planning Manager to build and lead component-level demand, supply, and capacity planning. This people-leader role owns consensus demand and its accuracy metrics, rough-cut capacity planning with Operations, and a feasible supply plan ahead of every Executive SIOP.

You will manage a growing team of planners, drive forecast accuracy, plan adherence, and collaborate with Programs and Operations to resolve bottlenecks.