Your Job
Koch Engineered Solutions (KES) is looking for a Regional Director of Planning and Scheduling. The Director will be responsible for leading and developing our scheduling and planning team on a regional level. In this role you will be provided with opportunities to implement good scheduling practices as well as develop good capacity tools to help aid good decision making for the S&OP (Sales & Operations Planning) team.
This position can be based in Aprilia (Italy)/ Dudelange (Luxembourg) or Hilden (Germany) and would require travel to our manufacturing facilities.
Our Team
Koch Engineered Solutions (KES) is a growing family of 12 companies that serves customers with innovative, engineered-to-order solutions. You will be managing our Planning and Scheduling team on a regional level (Europe, Middle East, India and China). You will become part of an organization for which transformation is key and will have the opportunity to drive this with us hand in hand. You will be provided with opportunities to challenge the status quo, drive change and harmonization initiatives.
What You Will Do
- Assists in recommending loading based on forward looking production requirements and capacity planning.
- Develop, implement, and monitor performance goals and objectives. Work with direct reports to set goals, measure results, and ensure that targets are achieved
- Develop and optimize planning and forecasting processes
- Develop a good understanding of the Demand Driven Operating Model
- Help implement the software module DBR+ and R+ across the region
- Lead the process of developing strategic initiatives and objectives for both short-term and Log-term global planning needs
- Lead collaborative strategic efforts between Planning and key customers i.e. Sales and Supply-Chain
- Identify opportunities for improvement, recommend solutions, and lead implementation of key initiatives
- Provide team members with clear direction and targets aligned with the S&OP vision and our culture
- Support, coach and mentor a regional Planning & Scheduling team to ensure continuous development, accountability, value creation, and best in class performance
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
- Degree in Supply Chain Management, Supply Chain Operations, Industrial Engineering or Business Management or related discipline
- Extensive experience in Planning & Scheduling or Logistics and/or Supply Chain Operations in an industrial manufacturing environment
- Proven management experience, including experience leading multicultural teams across various locations and time zones
- Ability to embrace, communicate, influence and lead others through change
- Solution-oriented assertive leader with ability to develop a team
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
What Will Put You Ahead
- Communication skills in Italian/ German or French
At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.
Who We Are
As a Koch company, Koch Engineered Solutions (KES) specializes in process and pollution control equipment and digital technologies to help industries reduce emissions, save energy and get the most from their resources. From pollution control to advanced filtration, we’re focused on providing customers with products and solutions to help them optimize, transform and succeed. Industries we serve include refineries, chemicals, municipalities, pharmaceutical, pulp and paper, food and dairy, utilities and automotive.
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