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Senior Manager, Production Planner - Manufacturing

Walmart
Fort Wayne, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 30 Jan 2025
💰 $192,500/yr($89,500/yr$192,500/yr)

About the role

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

We are seeking a Senior Manager, Production Planning - Manufacturing to join our dynamic team at Walmart. This leadership role is vital in developing, communicating, and implementing processes and practices to meet business needs, ensuring compliance with company policies, implementing production schedules that maintain adequate inventory levels, overseeing the flow of raw materials within the manufacturing environment, and driving the execution of multiple business plans and projects.

What You'll Do

  • Develop, Communicate, and Implement Processes and Practices to meet business needs by collaborating with managers, co-workers, customers, and other business partners, analyze and apply information from multiple sources.
  • Ensure Compliance with Company Policies, demonstrate, promote, and support compliance with company policies, procedures, and standards of ethics and integrity, use the Open Door Policy.
  • Implement Production Schedules that maintain adequate inventory levels, maximize production efficiencies, and meet customer fulfillment requirements.
  • Oversee the Flow of Raw Materials within the manufacturing environment, manage the procurement, storage, dispensation, and inventory tracking of raw materials.
  • Drive the Execution of Multiple Business Plans and Projects, identify customer and operational needs, develop and communicate business plans and priorities, remove barriers and obstacles that impact performance.

What You'll Bring

  • Monitoring Progress and Results, identify, address, and implement improvement opportunities, participate in and support community outreach events.
  • Providing Supervision and Development Opportunities for Associates, select and train, mentor, assign duties, build a team-based work environment, establish performance expectations and conduct regular performance evaluations.
  • Collaborating with Cross-Functional Partners to resolve inventory issues and proactively address constraints, provide back up and coverage in crucial areas and drive continuous improvement in increasing throughput, reducing cycle times, and improving production quality.
  • Ensuring Business Needs are Being Met, evaluate the ongoing effectiveness of current plans, programs, and initiatives, consult with business partners, managers, co-workers, or other key stakeholders, solicit, evaluate, and apply suggestions for improving efficiency and cost-effectiveness.

Benefits & Perks: 

Beyond competitive pay, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more. 

Equal Opportunity Employer 

Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer – By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people. 

Who We Are 

Join Walmart and your work could help over 275 million global customers live better every week. Yes, we are the Fortune #1 company. But you’ll quickly find we’re a company who wants you to feel comfortable bringing your whole self to work. A career at Walmart is where the world’s most complex challenges meet a kinder way of life. Our mission spreads far beyond the walls of our stores. Join us and you'll discover why we are a world leader in diversity and inclusion, sustainability, and community involvement.  From day one, you’ll be empowered and equipped to do the best work of your life.

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