Production Planner

What is this role? 

As the Production Planner for Cirkul, you will play a key role in continuous improvement of all aspects of the production planning and inventory production systems.  The Production Planner is responsible for daily production plans for multiple product categories. The Production Planner will work closely with Operations, Planning, and Sales to ensure products are available when needed for customer shipments. They will also work closely with production clerks and inventory teams to ensure inventory gets correctly reconciled in the system. The Production Planner will need to be detail oriented, have strong organizational skills, a critical eye for errors, and be hardworking.  

What does an average day look like? 

• Driving Results: Review inventory and build daily, weekly, monthly production plans that manage the right mix between Retail and Direct to Consumer on hand levels. Create daily production targets and goals and downtime priority plans for spot outages.
• Taking Ownership: Daily, weekly, and monthly S&OP review of appropriate stocking levels available across all levels (Raw Materials, Pack Materials, WIP, and Finished Goods) for multiple facilities. Complete cycle counts and daily follow ups until inventory risk is eliminated.
• Making Decisions: Create long range capacity plans in conjunction with finance, sales, and other manufacturing functions.  Identify and present risk scenarios on a monthly basis. Ensure new product introductions are planned and meet marketing and product launch deadlines.
• Cultivating Relationships: Develop and maintain production scorecards and be able to communicate results accurately.
• Instilling Trust: Work with production managers and plant managers on scheduling processes and scheduling adherence that meets operational requirements and customer needs.
• Customer Focus: Work with production planners and operations to create daily, weekly, monthly production plans that ensures a 99.5% OTIF across multiple Cirkul locations. Develop strong working relationships with internal customers.

What background should you have? 

• Willing to work hard, stay until the job is complete, and demonstrate resilience.
• Have a positive attitude, willing to work with multiple levels of employees, and thrive in a fast-paced environment.
• Bachelor’s Degree in supply chain, business, or other relevant fields
• Fluent in production planning best practices
• Expertise in spreadsheets, database, and ERP software
• Demonstrated high level of critical thinking ability and proven success problem solving complex, real life, and situation problems. Excellent written and verbal communication skills required.
• High standards for accuracy and precision.
• Extremely organized and able to coach others in the organization.
• High level of critical thinking ability and entrepreneurship.