Planning Analyst - Ulm, MN

Planning Analyst

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Choosing where to start and grow your career has a major impact on your professional and personal life. It is equally important you know that the company and its leaders will support and guide you. With a wide variety of people, global locations, technologies, and products, 3M is a place where you can collaborate with other curious, creative 3

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This position provides an opportunity to transition from other private, public, government, or military experience to a 3M career.

• Planning and scheduling of production work centers, monitoring work center output to meet customer requirements and improve work center operational efficiency.
• Procuring material and communicating to suppliers on future requirements to support production plan.
• Strong written or oral communication with Production Planning, Lean Value Stream, and Operations Team members along with active participation in the Tier process.
• Working closely with the business to understand customer requirements and forecasts; working closely with the manufacturing team, value stream leadership, and Supply Planners to determine how best to prioritize and resolve supply constraints and balance service, inventory, and cost to meet business targets.
• Parameter Management: optimizing and maintaining production lot sizes, production cycles, and safety stocks to deliver the desired balance between inventory and service.
• Managing capacity including identifying, resolving, and escalating production constraints.
• Managing assigned working and non‑working inventories to maintain compliance and achieve inventory investment targets.
• Executing the production planning standard work utilizing supply chain tools, IT systems, and processes.
• Providing a high degree of planning analysis to support data‑driven decision making.
• Identifying, leading, and participating in continuous improvement projects that improve customer service, inventory investment, flow, and supply chain efficiency.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree (completed and verified prior to start) or be actively pursuing one and be within one year of graduation.
• High school diploma/GED or higher (completed and verified prior to start) with a minimum of four (4) years of experience in logistics and/or supply chain in a private, public, government, or military environment.

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Supply Chain, Operations Management, and/or Business Analytics from an accredited institution.
• Two (2) years combined experience in supply chain, planning, logistics, and/or manufacturing in a private, public, government, or military environment.
• 3M systems experience (Factory Planner, PMCS/IMES, Peoplesoft).
• Experience in Production Planning.
• Knowledge of Supply Planning (SP), Demand Planning (DP), and Integrated Business Planning (IBP) processes.
• Strong data mining, data analysis, problem‑solving, and decision‑making skills.
• Advanced Microsoft Suite experience.
• Strong leadership, communication, interpersonal, and self‑motivational skills.
• Experience working on cross‑functional teams.
• Experience utilizing Lean and Six Sigma / Continuous Improvement methodologies.

Work location:

On‑site New Ulm, MN.

Travel:
May include up to 5% domestic/international.

Relocation assistance:
May be authorized.

Must be legally authorized to work in the country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B status).

Responsibilities of this position may include direct and/or indirect physical or logical access to information, systems, technologies subjected to the regulations/compliance with U.S. Export Control Laws. U.S. Export Control laws and U.S. Government Department of Defense contracts and sub‑contracts impose certain restrictions on companies and their ability to share export‑controlled and other technology and services with certain "non‑U.S. persons". To comply with these laws, 3M must help assess candidates' U.S. person status.

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