Global Capacity Planner

Leggett & Platt’s overall mission is a commitment to enhance lives – by delivering quality products, offering empowering and rewarding careers, and doing our part in bringing about a better future.

Leggett & Platt’s inventive heritage and leadership in the residential products industry span more than 130 years. As The Components People, we are the leading supplier of a wide range of products and components for all areas of life, including mattress springs and carpet cushion, as well as bedding machinery and erosion-control products.

From aerospace tubing and fabricated assemblies to flooring underlayment and carpet cushion, Leggett & Platt has divisions that design, manufacture, and sell a variety of products. Our reliable product development and launch capability, coupled with our global footprint, make us a trusted partner for customers in the aerospace, hydraulic cylinders, flooring, textile, and geo components industries.

Leggett & Platt Automotive is a global provider of wire forms, mechanical control cables, wireless charging, as well as seat lumbar, suspension, bolster, actuator, and motor systems. In addition to these award‑winning, category‑leading products, we offer tailored goods due to our expertise in product development and attention to market trends. Our unique competitive advantages give us unmatched insight into the demands of the consumer.

The Global Capacity Planner is an external facing role and will collaborate with Sales to understand customer demand signals and verify adequate component part capacity is in place for multi-branch shared external tooling and/or processes. Collaborate with the Operations team to manage supply constraints and ensure that those constraints are resolved in a timely manner. Work with the Category Management and Finance teams to identify and justify capacity investment opportunities.

Continuously enhance the Capacity Planning process to ensure analysis quality and that supply constraints are mitigated effectively, and efficiently.

• Prepare models to plan tooling/process capacity of critical, multi-branch suppliers effectively. Analyze short and medium‑term data from Sales, Operations, and Suppliers to monitor supply/customer demand balance.
• Develop recommendations to manage capacity/customer demand gaps. Align with the Business, Sales, & Procurement teams.
• Identify continuous Supply/Demand gaps which represent an opportunity to increase capacity. Work with Category Management to develop cost-effective solution. Present recommendation(s) to Purchasing, Finance and Business Leadership.
• Design and maintain all performance capacity reports and statistics for management.
• Monitor multi-branch external supplier capacity to ensure adequate supply to meet customer demand.
• Prepare recommendations for short‑term and medium‑term capacity adjustments. Secure alignment with critical stakeholders.
• Develop process to update and maintain effective capacity limits in supply planning applications (Blue Yonder).
• Represent Procurement as the point of contact highlight critical supply chain decisions tied to volume requirements.

These represent typical examples of the metrics for this position, it is not meant to be a comprehensive list.

Metrics will be defined by the VP Purchasing based on business priorities and needs.

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain or Engineering.

• Strong ability to develop and maintain relationships, influence stakeholders, and drive outcomes.
• Business acumen and problem‑solving skills.
• Strong data analysis and reporting skills.
• Experience with collaboration with international teams including Asia and Europe.
• Familiar with enterprise resource planning.
• Collaboration with other team members and departments.

• Put People First reflects our commitment to safety and care of each other, learning and development, and creating an environment of mutual respect, empathy and belonging.
• Do the Right Thing focuses us on acting with honesty and integrity, delivering the results the right way, taking pride in our work, and speaking the truth – good or bad.
• Do Great Work…Together occurs when we engage without…