Production Planning & Projects Manager Specialist

Job Description

Do you enjoy turning complex planning challenges into practical solutions? Join our Planning team and play a key role in optimizing production plans while driving process, system, and performance improvements that help our factory operate at its best.

Core Responsibilities

In this role, you will own the scenario planning, ensuring optimized short- and mid-term production plans while driving continuous improvements in planning processes, systems, and tools.

 Moreover, you will:

• Collaborate closely with Supply and Inventory planning team, Production team and other stakeholders to ensure accurate planning data and system setup. 
• Develop and maintain production plans aligned with demand, capacity, and material availability.
• Drive process, system, and reporting improvements to enhance planning efficiency and operational performance.
• Analyze planning data, KPIs, and demand changes to identify risks and optimization opportunities.
• Escalate risks and deviations that may impact production or delivery performance.
• Collaborate closely with Engineering and other stakeholders to ensure accurate planning data and system setup.
• Represent the Planning function in local and global projects, discussions, and improvement initiatives.
• Act as a role model for the department and subject matter expert, supporting best practices across the planning community.

This position is placed in our Kladno manufacturing site and there is no relocation assistance offered for this role.

Play your part in our team succeeding

The Planning team is part of the local EU Packing organization in Kladno and plays a key role in ensuring the right products are available at the right time. The team owns the end-to-end planning process, balancing customer demand, production capacity, material availability, and inventory levels to support efficient factory operations and high service levels.

Do you have what it takes?

• Prior experience in production planning, master planning, or supply chain planning within a manufacturing environment.
• Strong understanding of planning processes, including demand, capacity, and inventory balancing.
• Strong analytical skills with advanced Excel capabilities.
• Experience working with SAP and planning master data.
• Strong communicator and relationship builder with a continuous improvement mindset, able to independently drive complex topics, influence stakeholders without formal authority, and deliver results through cross-functional collaboration

What would be an advantage:

• Advanced user of Kinaxis Maestro or a comparable planning system would be a big plus.
• Experience leading planning-related improvement initiatives or projects.
• Experience supporting S&OP or similar planning processes.
• Experience facilitating discussions and resolving competing priorities among stakeholders.

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Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However, please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to any advertised closing date. So, if you're interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

What’s in it for you?

Here is what you can expect:

Family Care Leave - We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.

Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.

Wellbeing - We want our people to feel well and thrive. We offer resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing along with opportunities to build community and inspire creativity.

Colleague Discount – We know you'll love to build, so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.

Bonus - We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.

Workplace - When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.

Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.

The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age and religion) to apply for roles in our team.

The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.

Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.

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