Description
Looking for a job to get you out of bed?Casper is an omni-channel manufacturer, and to support its rapid growth and enable future expansion, Casper is investing in operations leadership and is hiring for the position of Production Planning Manager to lead the production function. The ideal candidate will possess: (1) production planning experience in a food, CPG, retail, or big-box manufacturing company of relevant size and complexity, (2) demonstrated experience creating, implementing, and leading integrated business processes from a starting point of limited maturity and sophistication; and (3) entrepreneurial spirit; capable of leading through action and influence in a fast growing and evolving company.
As Casper continues to scale its operations to account for increasing customer and geographic footprint complexity, the company is focused on improving visibility through increased planning sophistication, including automation. Recently, the company has worked to improve production capacity and execution through scaling it’s production team. Casper is looking to improve alignment with its manufacturing partners through optimized supplier management, communication and information sharing processes, ensuring capacity visibility. The Production Planning Manager will build and lead an integrated, data-driven production planning process, linking supply forecasts, production and inventory planning, and fulfillment operations with our manufacturers. Reporting to the Director of Planning and Supply Chain, the Manager will be based in company offices in New York, NY.
We are deeply committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce so that we represent all those who dream big equally.
When you’re not catching zzz’s, this is what you’ll do
- Functional Leadership: Partner cross-functionally with production engineering, supply planning, distribution, and product development organizations to understand short-term and longer-term sourcing and manufacturing requirements. Facilitate weekly (tactical) and monthly (strategic) supply planning meetings with manufacturing partners. Continuously improve communication techniques, methods, and approaches. Be a catalyst for tying the consensus supply plan to the production plan, proactively addresses gaps versus the optimal supply plan.
- Production Planning Expertise: Lead the production planning function for the company. Working with the operations team, assemble and analyze all supply data and assemble production planning reports to support manufacturing network and warehouse operations. Proactively evaluate the supply plan against network capacity, ensuring delivery deadlines are met. Provide input consistent with historical performance and events. Perform adherence analysis using standard, transparent, and periodic methods.
- Business Intelligence: Partner with functional leadership to develop an overall dashboard for production planning excellence, make visible production planning decisions, understand and root-cause capacity plan misses, provide regular reporting to stakeholders through the SIOP process, support development of metric baselines and near-term targets.
- Develop a Production Planning Team: Develop and lead a team of planners to create a cultural awareness around data-driven planning process, supply forecasts, production and inventory planning, and fulfillment operations
- Production planning experience in a food, CPG, retail, or cosmetics manufacturing company of relevant size and complexity
- Demonstrated experience creating, implementing, and leading integrated business processes from a starting point of limited maturity and sophistication
- Entrepreneurial spirit; capable of leading through action and influence in a fast growing and evolving company.
Key Attributes
- Progressive experience in a planning function; preferably in the CPG, food, retail or cosmetics industry, ~7yrs
- Proficiency in supplier management, production and supply planning, and procurement
- Understanding of supply chain KPIs – On time Delivery, customer order fill rates, inventory turnover, excess and short-dated inventory management, and forecast accuracy
- Knowledge of manufacturing operations and planning including master scheduling, procurement, distribution, and oversight
- Expert-level financial and analytical skills; embraces fact-based decision making; naturally seeks to leverage and/or integrate market data, production results, and cost modeling
- Experience with ERP (JDE a plus) and enterprise-wide operations planning systems; prior process design and implementation experience strongly desired
- Excellent communication skills, including written, verbal and presentation skills; comfortable and credible with both internal stakeholders and external audiences
- A flexible, dynamic, self-demanding and proactive individual; able to motivate him/herself and others; a natural bias for action and ability to deal with ambiguity
- Excellent Excel and Google Sheets skills
- Previous experience in direct people management
- Bachelor’s degree required; Engineering, Finance, or Supply Chain background preferred
- Participation in our HQ bonus program for some splurging and equity so that you’re part of the Casper family.
- Medical, vision, and dental insurance to help you with those coughs or cavities
- Wellness programs like cash incentives for tracking sleep and fitness, credits for your favorite studios and in-office activities
- Unlimited vacation policy. If you need time off just take it; we trust you!
- Catered lunches twice a week to give you time to catch up with your teammate
- Free snacks and coffee, including a huge breakfast selection (10 types of cereal anyone?)
- A full gifted bed set when you join and product discounts for friends and family!
If you dream about this stuff this job is probably right for you. We look forward to learning more about you!
