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Global Planning Manager

Global Planning Manager

About Advanced Energy

Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ: AEIS), enables design breakthroughs and drives growth for leading semiconductor and industrial customers. Our precision power and control technologies, along with our applications know-how, inspire close partnerships and innovation in thin-film and industrial manufacturing. We are proud of our rich heritage, award-winning technologies, and we value the talents and contributions of all Advanced Energy's employees worldwide.

Responsibilities

• Process Owner and Improver

• Leading and managing a local planning team to develop and maintain comprehensive supply plans on the mid to long term, ensuring alignment with demand plans and global business objectives before communicating them to stakeholders and local planning teams for execution:

• Map factories capacities (mainline, sub-assemblies, equipment, direct labor, …)

• Understand supply constraints including material availabilities

• Produce medium to long term manufacturing plans considering CTB and factory capacities

• Drive the Customer commit process

• Handover manufacturing plans to the local teams for short term execution

• Drive demand review process (demand changes, Forecast accuracy)

• Support the preparation and execution of the S&OP process

• Support customer escalations

• Ensure system parameters are correctly configured

• Monitoring and analyzing key performance indicators (KPIs) to track supply chain performance, identify areas for improvement, and implement corrective actions as needed.

• Assisting in developing annual and strategic plans , reconciling them with monetized S&OP plans. Drive resolution of gaps and communicate and escalate critical gaps in the S&OP process.

• Developing monthly S&OP input (medium- or long-term demand and supply plans and working capital position) and work with cross-functional S&OP team to evaluate multiple options and transparently communicate options, making recommendations where appropriate. Ensure the S&OP process is defined, implemented, and meets the required standards, with a maturity improvement plan in place

• Drive and coordinate product transfer activities between sites to ensure best practices are exercised in a standard and uniform way across all sites

• Implementing best practices and continuous improvement initiatives to enhance supply chain processes, leveraging advanced planning systems and tools to improve accuracy and responsiveness.

• Identifying and mitigating potential risks to the supply plan, developing contingency plans to ensure supply continuity in the event of disruptions.

• Leading and mentoring a team of supply planners , providing guidance and support to ensure high performance and professional growth, and developing training programs to enhance the skills and capabilities of the supply planning team.

• Assessing current performance and lead end-to-end (E2E) process optimization , to reduce overall E2E lead-times, maintain customer on-time delivery, and improve fulfillment and value chain visibility.

• Influencer/Collaborator

• Coordinating with the local planning teams as well as Global procurement, production, logistics, finance and sales teams to ensure supply chain activities and strategies are synchronized and potential disruptions proactively managed.

• Developing and Coaching a team of planners to continually drive them to excellence

• Tracker of Information/Converter of Information

• Ensuring that demand and supply plans are shared/received in the format, level of detail and timing required by all customers and supply chain partners, with documented assumptions, to achieve the various business objectives.

• Owning and analyzing supply and manufacturing performance scorecard.

• Identifying analytical and reporting needs and support the delivery of those indicators to the busines

• Innovator/Decision Maker

• Contributing to cross-functional initiatives for optimizing customer on-time delivery, lead-time, forecast accuracy and resource utilization. Demonstrate sound business decision making aligned with company goals.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science degree in Operations Management, Finance, Materials Management, Computer Information Sciences, or Engineering, or equivalent education and/or experience.

• Minimum 10 years of experience working in a manufacturing and production arrangement as well as new product introduction environment doing production and supply planning

• Proven track record of success and growth in positions of increasing responsibility.

• Experience in a high mix/low volume, pull-based manufacturing environment.

• Previous experience managing people.

• Excellent SAP R3/S4 system knowledge as well as IBP/Kinaxis or similar solution

• Ability to present ideas in a clear and persuasive manner, both orally and in writing.

• Capability to respond quickly, decisively, assertively, and professionally to changing requirements in demand, product description, and material demand.

• Ability to manage and lead a staff of professional Production Planners.

• Ability to organize, schedule, coordinate, and negotiate effectively and to set priorities in a manner which ensures maximum performance and goal accomplishment.

• Strong theoretical and practical knowledge of demand-based manufacturing systems.

• Excellent analytical skills, including Power Bi or Tableau (as user or developer).

• Strong organizational skills.

• Strong influencer

• Ability to work with several projects simultaneously.

• Ability to motivate others in a team environment.

• Fluent in English (Written and Spoken) as well as Pilipino. Any other languages such as Chinese or Spanish is a plus

As part of our total rewards philosophy, we believe in offering and maintaining competitive compensation and benefits programs for our employees in order to attract and retain a talented, highly engaged workforce. Our compensation programs are focused on equitable, fair pay practices including market-based base pay, an annual pay-for-performance incentive plan, we offer a strong benefits package in each of the countries in which we operate.

Advanced Energy is committed to diversity in its workforce including Equal Employment Opportunity for Minorities, Females, Protected Veterans, and Individuals with Disabilities.

We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. We take your privacy seriously and will only use your personal information to administer your application in accordance with the RA No. 10173 also known as the Data Privacy Act of 2012.