Planning Manager

Moog is a performance culture that empowers people to achieve great things. Our people enjoy solving interesting technical challenges in a culture where everyone trusts each other to do the right thing. For you, working with us can mean deeper job satisfaction, better rewards, and a great quality of life inside and outside of work.

• Manages and supervises the Planning Department and participates in their highly complex planning activities.
• Sets Planning goals and metrics ensuring alignment to the site’s objectives. Ensures flow down of goals and metrics to the Planning team.
• Implements and improves the material pull system that facilitates the scheduling on the shop floor.
• Facilitates inventory reductions and WIP counts within each of the business unit.
• Collaborates with other functions such as Logistics, Warehouse, Operations, Supply Chain and Quality in the identification of solutions / improvements to meet the company strategy.
• Ensures data accuracy in the Moog Business System (MBS) as this is critical in daily business decisions and is equally important to the transition success to Enterprise Resource Planning system.
• Manages the Inter-Plant Ordering process and Inter-Plant Outside Special Process focusing on business system requirements to achieve on time delivery both to internal and external customers.
• Participates in budget preparation and administration, monitors and controls expenditures
• Manages the performance of the Lead Planners and Planners following the company policy, procedures and schedules on performance management. This includes goal setting, capability building (training and certification), performance monitoring (metrics, feedback, coaching, IDP assessment), formal appraisals (ePMS), rewards (promotion along the Job Family Model) and succession planning.
• Conducts MBS Training for new hires.

• Bachelor of Science in Business or Technical
• Masters of Business Administration is preferred
• Minimum 5 years of progressive Planning / Materials Management / Supply Chain experience
• Operations experience is a plus
•  Demonstrated knowledge of Material Requirements Planning system, material and capacity planning methodologies

• Knowledge of self and self-development - Achieved and consistently demonstrates a satisfactory level of technical and professional skill or knowledge in position-related areas.  Maintains stable performance under pressure or opposition such as time pressure or job ambiguity.
• Developing Talent - Develops and empowers teams to deliver against agreed business objectives; aligns their skills with the needs of the organization / team.
• Building Strategic Working Relationships - Develops and uses collaborative relationships to facilitate the accomplishment of work goals.
• Lean Leadership Behavior / Lean Management System - Champions and continually challenges  the status quo in pursuit of continued operational improvement, knows and applies lean tools  appropriately and  systemic  thinking.
• Effective Communication - Organizational alignment, understanding others and being understood; Uses appropriate interpersonal styles and techniques to gain acceptance of ideas or plan; modifies one's own behavior to accommodate tasks, situations, and individuals involved.
• Strong Quality Orientation / Ownership - Ensures that the team consistently achieves the Quality requirements applicable to the scope of work.  Compliance to Quality Standards and Regulatory requirements.
• Financial Savvy - Familiar with own budget, mindful of expense, capital, headcount (all budget attributes) within process span of control. Manages cost and stays on budget.
• Customer Focus - Makes customers and their needs a primary focus of one's actions; develops and sustains production customer relationships. Keeps commitments in focus.