Manager of Planning

Corporate 171 Naples St Tontitown, AR 72762, USA

Come be an Employee-Owner of one of the nation’s largest producers of metal roofing and siding! We sell, manufacture, build, and distribute metal building components and packages. Since 1988 we’ve grown to over 13 locations nationwide. We make raving fans of our customers with our "right, on time, every time" commitment. So, who are we looking for? People who "Own It" – Commitment to the customer, the company, and each other:
You are customer-focused with an eye for detail. You are reliable. People who "Can Do" – Our Attitude:
You are an innovative thinker pursuing continuous improvement. You embrace teamwork. You want to positively make an impact and open to change. People who "Act in Love" – Treat others with humility, respect, kindness, honesty, patience, and self-control. You enjoy giving back to your community. We take great pride in the communities we live in, so we give back with our time and talents.

Each year you can take paid time off to support a cause close to your heart. And what will you do?

Summary: The Manager of Planning manages the planning function, including forecasting, demand planning, inventory planning, offsite inventory, and warehouse material planning. This leader executes planning priorities, facilitates the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process, and helps ensure inventory investments align with customer demand, production requirements, warehouse capacity, service objectives, and working capital goals. The Manager oversees planning processes, systems, analytics, and team performance while coordinating cross-functional actions across Purchasing, Operations, Sales, and Finance.

Core Functions:

Demand Planning & Forecasting

• Manage the monthly forecasting and IBP process across assigned product categories, locations, and planning groups.
• Facilitate a disciplined consensus-demand process and decision calendar with Sales, Operations, Finance, and Purchasing.
• Maintain and improve the methods, assumptions, hierarchy, and data standards used to translate historical usage, sales trends, seasonality, customer demand, and market changes into an actionable forecast.
• Prepare and facilitate forecast reviews, clearly communicating risks, opportunities, constraints, scenarios, and inventory implications to senior leaders and cross-functional partners.
• Develop and manage the annual purchasing and supply plan, balancing landed cost, capacity, supplier commitments, service requirements, and working capital targets.
• Monitor forecast accuracy, bias, and value-add metrics; coordinate corrective actions and continuous improvement across the planning process.

Inventory Strategy & Working Capital

• Implement inventory strategies and manage targets that balance customer service, production continuity, warehouse constraints, risk, and working capital objectives.
• Coordinate actions addressing excess, obsolete, slow-moving, aged, and high-risk inventory and track accountability for disposition.
• Manage replenishment and segmentation approaches based on demand patterns, supplier lead times, service targets, operating constraints, and business criticality.
• Oversee analysis of inventory turns, days on hand, stockouts, carrying cost, and cash-to-cash performance; translate findings into practical recommendations for senior leadership.
• Develop inventory projections and scenario analyses to support budgeting, capacity decisions, and working capital targets.
• Manage operating standards and performance for offsite inventory programs, external storage locations, supplier stocking programs, customer inventory arrangements, and consigned inventory within approved strategy and budgets.

Planning Parameters & Optimization

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