Sr. Planner

Overview

Waters Corporation is currently seeking a Senior Planner to support operations and manufacturing efforts at our Santa Barbara, CA facility. The Senior Planner will be responsible for creating demand, supply and build plans and actively managing production schedules to achieve plan attainment to satisfy customer demands. This position also collaborates with Sales, Product Marketing, Finance, Production, Purchasing, Quality and Engineering.

Responsibilities

• Champion a physically and mentally safe environment for all coworkers; Drive towards a zero-injury safety culture and mindset.
• Drive the demand and supply planning processes. Analyze and execute demand forecast, in collaboration with Commercial and Global Demand Planning, and update based on actual sales, trends, promotional plans, new product launch projections and revised sales plan.
• Responsible for statistical and consensus forecasting. Manage the supply plan to meet product demand and inventory targets across multiple product lines.
• Ensure finished goods inventory at plant level aligns with demand requirements.
• Lead efforts to address stock outs and backorders and improve product availability and service levels via balancing supply and demand. Develop solutions to proactively manage excess inventory.
• Responsible for production planning and detailed scheduling. Ensure accurate and executable production plan accounting for capacity and lead-time constraints. Provide timely status updates.
• Develop and manage a well-rounded rough-cut capacity model to manage constraints. Develop, implement, and maintain an effective capacity and production planning process.
• Monitor the demand plan performance throughout the month to provide detailed input to Sales, Marketing and Operations for use in demand review and IBP meetings.
• Liaise with internal customers regularly to align on priorities, commitments, constraints, and recovery plans.
• Lead initiatives to improve and optimize planning processes and systems resulting in enhanced supply delivery and efficient coordination of materials and resources used in manufacturing processes.
• Coordinate with new product introduction (NPI) teams in setting up processes to launch products into general availability according to the expected product release dates.
• Set up and maintain required master data in ERP to ensure proper execution of supply planning processes.
• Measure, monitor, and drive root cause analysis to improve critical metrics including plan attainment, service level, inventory raw material, WIP and days of supply targets.

• BS or BA in Supply Chain or related field required. MBA would be a plus.
• Minimum of 5 years relevant Supply Chain experience as a Demand, Supply, or Production Planner.
• Proven expertise with planning tools such as SAP IBP, SAP APO, Oracle SCM, Sage Intaact, or equivalent.
• APICS CPIM certification, APICS CSCP certification, or equivalent highly desired.
• Intermediate Proficiency required for both MS Access and Excel.
• Excellent organization, prioritization, verbal, written and presentation skills.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and expedite corrective actions.
• Strong leadership skills, self-directed, and the ability to make independent decisions and influence change.
• Strong interpersonal and influencing skills at all levels of the organization.
• High level of resilience, and autonomous decision making
• Familiarity with ISO 9001:2015 is desired.