(USA) Senior Manager, Production Planner - Manufacturing

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, managing raw milk scheduling for the dairy manufacturing plant, overseeing the flow of raw materials within the manufacturing environment, and driving the execution of multiple business plans and projects.

What You'll Do:

Develops, communicates, and implements processes and practices to meet business needs by collaborating with managers, co-workers, customers, and other business partners. Analyzes and applies information from multiple sources. Monitors progress and results. Identifies, addresses, and implements improvement opportunities.

Demonstrates, promotes, and supports compliance with company policies, procedures, and standards of ethics and integrity by explaining, guiding, and demonstrating how to apply these in executing business processes and practices. Uses the Open Door Policy. Assists management with correcting ethical and compliance issues and problems.

Implements production schedules that maintain adequate inventory levels, maximize production efficiencies, and meet customer fulfillment requirements by collaborating with the Site Sr. Director, Director Operations, Sr. Maintenance Manager, Shift Managers, and Supervisors to develop weekly production plans for products that meet utilization goals and achieve high service levels. Ensures compliance with sanitation and maintenance schedules for the facility and equipment. Ensures cost effective efforts. works with Farm, Supply Chain, and optimization teams to determine weekly and monthly supply and sales outlooks. Develops production plans based on sales forecasts.

Performs daily schedule plan analysis by ensuring the facility creates the correct items and has sufficient inventory available. Conducts process analysis for each Stock Keeping Unit (SKU) to expedite production based on specifications, established priorities, capacity limits, and equipment availability. Reviews and analyzes weekly performance/inventory levels of products and raw materials. Audits and tracks trays and pallets and performs inventory reconciliation. Supports sales forecast analysis with respect to capacity planning and material requirements. Recommends changes to forecasts when needed. Analyzes past performance to identify process improvement opportunities for inventory management performance. Takes appropriate actions and communicates needs for expedited production or expedited raw material receipts to management and suppliers.

Develops and implements scheduling run strategies to assist in the fulfillment of company material usage and efficiency goals by ensuring production quality; analyzing incoming data from Site Sr. Director, Director Operations, and other members of plant leadership; communicating issues and discrepancies to teams and leadership; reporting changes (for example, shortages, overages, expedites) in schedules, forecasts, and inventory to Site Sr. Director and and Home Office teams; creating and communicating schedules for Processing and Raw Material Receiving; utilizing multiple software combinations (for example, SAP, DSI, Essbase, Dashboard, GRS, Microsoft); and managing and tracking the inventory, cycle time, and status of the reusable containers and pallets that will be utilized for delivery to stores and clubs.

Collaborates with cross-functional partners to resolve inventory issues and proactively address constraints by providing back up and coverage in crucial areas and driving continuo