Strategic Manufacturing Planner / Operations Strategist (f/m/x)

Your Role

As a committed Strategic Manufacturing Program Planner / Operations Strategist, you will have a key role in strategic capacity planning and managing critical projects that drive important decisions within Operations for the MED implants and disposables business.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Guiding strategic capacity planning for the Carl Zeiss Meditec implants and disposables across international manufacturing sites, functioning as the principal reference for long-term operational plans.

• Enacting the capacity planning process in newly acquired businesses and overseeing post-merger integration (PMI) operations within the operations strategy team.

• Organizing capacity committee meetings with management to facilitate decision-making on capacity build projects, which encompass site expansions and the establishment of new sites.

• Generating business case assessments for investment resolutions and assembling presentations for the MED Board to support management choices.

• Designing calculation methods and tools for strategic volume planning and allocations, while steadily enhancing the strategic planning process.

• Managing strategic operations projects focused on boosting the efficiency of our operational functions and processes, while also playing a role in the formulation of operations strategy and assessing data to generate pertinent scenarios in line with MED's strategic aims.

• You will take part in M&A activities concerning operations.

Your profile

• Master's degree in either business or engineering

• In-depth experience in strategic planning and/or in a strategic operations department or consultancy / or any other role focused on operations strategy

• Profound experience in global operations environment

• Very good Excel and Powerpoint skills for top management presentations

• Solid collaborative and teamworking abilities, structured and results-driven work methods

• Strong, audience-oriented communication skills - very good knowledge in English and German

Your ZEISS Recruiting Team:

Nicole Kraft-Henzelmann