Plant Production Planning Senior Manager

Relocation Assistance Offered Within Country
Job Number #165844 - Hodges, South Carolina, United States

Who We Are

Colgate-Palmolive Company is a global consumer products company operating in over 200 countries specializing in Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care, Skin Care, and Pet Nutrition. Our products are trusted in more households than any other brand in the world, making us a household name!

Join Colgate-Palmolive, a caring, innovative growth company reimagining a healthier future for people, their pets, and our planet. Guided by our core values—Caring, Inclusive, and Courageous—we foster a culture that inspires our people to achieve common goals. Together, let's build a brighter, healthier future for all.
 

Colgate-Palmolive is a leading global consumer products company, tightly focused on Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care and Pet Nutrition. Colgate sells its products in over 200 countries and territories around the world under such internationally recognized brand names as Colgate, Palmolive, Mennen, Softsoap, Irish Spring, Tom’s of Maine, Ajax, Fabuloso, Haci Sakir, elmex, and Suavitel, as well.

Colgate-Palmolive invites applications for the position of Planning Manager located at our Greenwood, SC plant. This is an exciting opportunity to experience a new plant start-up for a world-class manufacturing company.

 The Planning Manager oversees the Global Manufacturing Production plan-of-record, budget / LE volume planning process, inventory level recommendations, and product sourcing matrix. This role leads the master production planning with the objective of maximizing customer service and achieving working capital objectives at the lowest Total Delivered Cost. Effective communication with internal customers (such as Sales and Marketing) to maintain appropriate service levels is critical to the overall supply chain effectiveness.

 Responsibilities:

• Manage and counsel on manufacturing scheduling, product sourcing activities, warehouse/delivery and order taking operations

• Develop monthly global production volume plan-of-record to align inventory and customer service objectives. Facilitate global budgets, volume planning, inventory flow and levels with operations and finance.

• Collaborate with Global Supply Chain, Customer Service & Logistics, and external business partners to drive operational efficiencies, execute supply network strategies and achieve key performance indicators on a daily basis

• Develop & align global replenishment and sourcing strategies to balance supply and demand at the lowest total delivered cost

• Monitor forward looking global SKU stock coverage optimization, inventory glide-path projections, and global month-end finished goods inventory reporting (units and pounds)

• Review monthly / weekly volume supply and demand forecasts after confirming with demand planning. Adjust finished goods & brown bag production plans to align with sales, finance, manufacturing budget objectives

• Support supply network optimization studies to determine optimal capacity placement / expansion and product sourcing strategies

• Facilitate monthly Supply Chain review conference calls to align plant schedules with customer service key performance indicators

Required qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Logistics, Engineering, Business, Finance or related field.