Planning Manager
$31,200–$31,200 year
On-siteRingaskiddy, Munster, Ireland
Job Summary
Lead the production planning and scheduling function for the Cork site, ensuring manufacturing build plans support customer service commitments while balancing inventory and operational constraints. Own site-level supply planning, replenishment, and inventory planning across finished goods, raw materials, and WIP to maintain a controlled flow of approved materials. Proactively identify supply risks, develop contingency plans, and escalate significant issues to senior stakeholders to protect short- and medium-term service performance. Partner with Manufacturing, Procurement, Quality, Logistics, and Global Supply Chain to resolve planning constraints and support reliable execution of site manufacturing plans. Manage inventory performance across raw materials, work-in-progress, and finished goods to balance customer service, supply continuity, and working capital. Lead initiatives to reduce material cost, improve lead times, and identify cost reduction opportunities across distribution, supplier, and manufacturing processes. Act as a key site subject matter expert for ERP, MRP, and related planning systems, supporting testing, system development, transaction readiness, and team training. Drive adoption of planning system enhancements, advanced planning tools, and analytics to improve forecast accuracy, decision support, and process efficiency. Lead planning activities for new product launches and product transfer projects, including supply readiness, validated lead times, and inventory build plans to meet launch or transfer milestones. Provide leadership, direction, and performance management for the planning team, ensuring clear priorities, resource planning, capability development, and resilient succession plans. Ensure planning activities comply with applicable EHS, Quality, GMP, financial, and company requirements.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent qualification in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, Logistics, Operations or a related discipline
- Minimum 5 years' experience in a supply chain, planning, purchasing, warehouse or related leadership roles with demonstrated responsibility for finished goods and direct material planning
- Experience in manufacturing planning and distribution networks, preferably within orthopaedics, medical devices or another highly regulated industry
- Strong working knowledge of ERP and MRP systems, with advanced MS Office and Excel capability
- Strong knowledge of cGMP, cGDP, quality systems and regulated manufacturing environments
- Demonstrated people leadership experience, including team development, resource planning, coaching and performance management
- Proven ability to work cross-functionally with peers, senior leaders and external partners through negotiation, influence and collaboration
- Strong production planning, scheduling, MRP and inventory management capability
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to make quantitative projections and recommendations
- Ability to make effective decisions in a complex, fast-moving manufacturing environment
- Strong stakeholder management, influencing, negotiation and collaboration skills across multiple decision makers and cross-functional teams
- Demonstrated ability to lead improvement initiatives through to completion
- Proactive, self-motivated and accountable, with strong follow-through on assignments, projects and business priorities
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to develop clear, structured messages and well-supported conclusions
- Collaborative leadership style with a strong focus on talent development, attention to detail and task completion
- Onsite based role
- Proficiency in English speaking
Desired Qualifications
- Experience in medical device operations or cGMP environment
- Six Sigma, Lean, FPX, JJOS, JJPS, Green Belt, Black Belt, APICS or equivalent certification
- Strong SAP, SAP EWM, JDE, Oracle, WMS or equivalent ERP/WMS experience
- Project management experience, including planning, implementation and delivery of cross-functional supply chain projects
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