Production Planning Manager

Role Overview The Production Planning Manager is a senior leadership role responsible for defining, leading, and continuously improving the production planning strategy within a manufacturing environment. The position ensures that production plans align with business objectives, customer demand, and operational capability, while driving efficiency, quality, and on-time delivery performance. This role provides leadership to the production planning function and works closely with senior stakeholders across operations, supply chain, procurement, quality, and manufacturing to deliver robust, achievable production plans. Key Responsibilities Own and lead the end-to-end production planning and scheduling strategy to support business, customer, and operational objectives. Develop and govern master production schedules, ensuring optimal alignment of demand, capacity, materials, and resources. Lead, mentor, and develop a team of production planners, managers, and coordinators, driving high performance and accountability. Partner with supply chain and procurement teams to ensure material availability and mitigate supply risks. Proactively identify capacity constraints, operational risks, and performance gaps, implementing corrective actions where required. Drive SIOP/Sandamp;OP processes, including load and capacity analysis, scenario planning, and demand forecasting alignment. Collaborate closely with manufacturing and quality leadership to ensure production plans meet quality, ..... full job details .....