Planning Manager
Paragon Laboratories
Torrance, CA
manager
production
management
manufacturing
scheduling
packaging
manager
delivery
supplements
lead
team
operations
leadership
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October 7, 2022
Paragon Laboratories
Torrance, CA
FULL_TIME
Paragon Laboratories is a leading contract manufacturer of Dietary Supplements in tablet, capsule, and powder forms.
For over 50 years, Paragon’s top-notch formulators and manufacturing personnel have been improving lives by delivering quality nutritional supplements. We are located in Torrance, California, are an Equal Opportunity Employer, and seek an experienced Planning Manager for immediate hire. This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing manufacturing company that distributes globally.
Summary
The planning manager will lead a team of planning professionals and will be responsible for all aspects of scheduling, planning, and inventory activities. Some key areas of activities include developing a production plan, planning workflow and schedules, monitoring status, and ensuring customer delivery requirements through sales and operations planning (S&OP). The planning manager is responsible for the accuracy of all items within the business system that have an impact on company-wide financial reporting and manufacturing.
For over 50 years, Paragon’s top-notch formulators and manufacturing personnel have been improving lives by delivering quality nutritional supplements. We are located in Torrance, California, are an Equal Opportunity Employer, and seek an experienced Planning Manager for immediate hire. This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing manufacturing company that distributes globally.
Summary
The planning manager will lead a team of planning professionals and will be responsible for all aspects of scheduling, planning, and inventory activities. Some key areas of activities include developing a production plan, planning workflow and schedules, monitoring status, and ensuring customer delivery requirements through sales and operations planning (S&OP). The planning manager is responsible for the accuracy of all items within the business system that have an impact on company-wide financial reporting and manufacturing.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Implement, execute and maintain best-practice strategies for planning, scheduling, inventory, and customer satisfaction.
- Oversee production planning and materials management activities.
- Develop production plan, budget, and timelines according to production specifications.
- Determine production requirements based on plant capacity and production specifications.
- Provide leadership by promoting team concepts, coaching, counseling, retaining, mentoring, training, talent management, and individual development. Drives a culture of accountability and results through strategy deployment and effective performance management.
- Plan workflow and schedules for production departments. Follow up with Procurement, Manufacturing, and Packaging managers/supervisors to enable on-time delivery.
- Monitor production status and ensure timely delivery.
- Track all packaging batches from time of release to final transfer to logistics facility and track all manufacturing batches through procurement, manufacturing, and QA.
- Identify delays and accordingly adjust schedules to meet deadlines.
- Assist in production risk assessment and mitigation activities.
- Review newly booked orders and determine appropriate promise dates based on a general understanding of raw material lead times, non-standard QC testing times, specific understanding of current production and packaging loads, the volumes of types of processes for the specific product, and a specific understanding of customer needs.
- Determine the optimal quantity and timing of releasing packaging batches to production based on current inventory and capacity.
- Generate and maintain all relevant KPI’s and metrics for the company.
- Schedule and manage all daily and weekly production meetings including the S&OP meetings.
- Support ad hoc requests on managing stock obsolescence.
- Produce metric-based performance data for leadership.
Qualifications:
- 5 years' experience in progressive planning, scheduling, and inventory management in a GMP environment with 2-5 years of experience in a management role.
- Understanding of S&OP, planning, scheduling, and inventory management.
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft Word & Excel (Pivot Tables, graphs, and VLOOKUPS).
- Experience working with MRP/ERP systems.
- Strong written and verbal business communication abilities with all levels of management.
- Attention to detail.
- Strong organizational and analytical skills.
- Ability to prioritize work.
Education Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in supply chain, business management, or operations.
- APICS certification preferred.
EOE
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