Manager, Manufacturing Planning - (Greenville, NC)

**Job overview** **Manager, Manufacturing Planning** **Summary:** Provides on-time delivery, schedule production, inventory management, and capacity management. Circumstances where scheduling conflicts occur, the Master Planner will facilitate the review of plan options with production, Quality Assurance (QA), Labs, M&S and where appropriate customer planning organizations for resolution. Initiates the escalation process for management review in the event that a resolution cannot be identified. **Critical functions:** 1. Participates in Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process for commercial and development. Participates in meetings with key customer planning organizations. 2. Monitors the performance of the DSC process based on defined Key Performance Indicators (KPI) and targets as input to the S&OP meeting and as input for continues improvement projects (e.g. capacity utilization, OTD, schedule adherence). 3.