Production Planner

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Job Number #170733 - Cambridge, Ohio, United States

Colgate‑Palmolive Company is a global consumer products company operating in over 200 countries specializing in Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care, Skin Care, and Pet Nutrition. Our products are trusted in more households than any other brand in the world, making us a household name! Join Colgate‑Palmolive, a caring, innovative growth company reimagining a healthier future for people, their pets, and our planet.

Guided by our core values—Caring, Inclusive, and Courageous—we foster a culture that inspires our people to achieve common goals. Together, let's build a brighter, healthier future for all.

The Production Planner is responsible for developing and maintaining daily, mid, and long-term production schedules in alignment with Customer Service and Operational requirements. This role aims to uphold the highest standards of customer service by synchronizing with commercial activities, responding proactively to demand signals, and executing strategic inventory and coverage strategies. The Production Planner is dedicated to optimizing production efficiency and responsiveness, with a strong focus on meeting and exceeding customer expectations in product availability and delivery.

• Production Line Management: Own master production scheduling processes for Bulk, Semi‑Finished, and Finished Goods (weekly, monthly, annual) to meet business objectives.
• Collaborating with manufacturing teams: Optimize plant operations and ensure alignment with capacity constraints and operational parameters.
• Demand analysis: Analyze demand data to create production schedules that align with customer priorities, considering logistics, capacity constraints, and operational parameters.
• Master schedule management: Manage system‑generated master schedules and swiftly identify and resolve any operational exceptions.
• Change request handling: Evaluate short lead‑time production change requests and execute necessary adjustments to production plans.
• Scenario planning: Employ scenario planning to create solutions and strategies for potential disruptions.
• Capacity management: Perform regular capacity analysis, establish resource needs, outsourcing potential, and communicate risks to the plan.
• Partner collaboration: Collaborate with Global Supply Chain, Procurement, Customer Service & Logistics, CBS team, and external partners to enhance operational efficiencies and achieve key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Cross‑functional coordination: Work closely with Sales, Marketing, Research & Development (R&D), and Supply Chain teams to facilitate planning changes and new product commercialization initiatives.
• Supplier communication: Maintain open communication with key suppliers, share relevant business changes, and participate in Supplier Continuous Improvement Teams.
• System‑driven planning: Manage master data and capacity inputs, support quarterly master data updates in SAP and Planning Systems, and analyze system‑generated supply plans for feasibility and alignment with business objectives.
• Inventory management: Optimize inventory of raw, pack, and finished goods to balance inventory levels and working capital goals; monitor site‑level risks related to SLOB, oversee inventory accruals, write‑off reviews, and phase‑out or ramp‑down of inventory for discontinued products.
• Meeting facilitation & escalation: Facilitate weekly & monthly planning meetings, and escalated significant volume discrepancies and long‑term capacity or material issues to relevant stakeholders through regular processes.
• KPI reporting: Review, report and discuss KPIs with leadership on a weekly and monthly basis, identify root causes for any performance deviations, and report key performance indicators like schedule adherence, case fill, and inventory.

• A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Economics, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 3+ years in supply chain planning,…