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You will translate sales forecasts, customer requirements, new business opportunities, and supply constraints into an achievable monthly production plan.\nIn this highly collaborative role, you will partner with Production, Sales, Product Management, Supply Chain, and business leaders to improve product availability, support customer commitments, and minimize excess inventory. Your analysis and recommendations will help the organization respond effectively to changing priorities while improving planning processes and operational performance.\nIn This Role, Your Responsibilities Will Be:\nCollaborate with Sales, Product Management, Production, and Supply Chain teams to develop and maintain a master production schedule that supports customer requirements.\nPartner with the sales and operations planning team to support product planning, forecasting, and alignment with manufacturing capacity.\nEvaluate material availability, inventory, manufacturing schedules, and capacity constraints to identify risks and recommend practical solutions.\nAssess current and projected product availability and recommend realistic shipment commitments for customer orders.\nMonitor the relationship between demand forecasts and actual customer requirements, making ongoing adjustments to support product availability while avoiding excess inventory.\nUse supply chain planning systems to plan production materials and release scheduling messages for assembly, testing, rework, and project-related work orders.\nEvaluate requests to expedite orders based on material availability, manufacturing schedules, and capacity.\nWork closely with production leadership to monitor monthly build plans, identify potential gaps, and recommend changes when needed.\nUse material planning data to develop analyses and performance measures related to lead time, throughput, schedule attainment, forecast accuracy, and inventory.\nCollaborate with Manufacturing Engineering and Product Marketing to recommend improvements to finished-product bill-of-material structures.\nSupport production system processes, testing, and implementation for new products or business requirements\nPerform business system transactions and work orders as needed to support operational activities\nWho You Are:\nYou apply knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization’s goals. You make sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems. You plan and prioritize work to meet commitments aligned with the organizational goals. You develop and deliver multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.\nThis position does not have direct supervisory responsibility.\nFor This Role, You Will Need:\nBachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience\nTwo year’s experience in production planning \nPractical knowledge of supply chain processes, including manufacturing planning, demand planning, forecasting, replenishment, and inventory control.\nExperience in applying production-planning principles in a manufacturing environment.\nWorking knowledge of material requirements planning and manufacturing systems.\nAbility to analyze competing priorities, resolve planning conflicts, and make informed recommendations using operational data.\nUnderstanding of production capacity, material availability, inventory implications, and customer-delivery requirements.\nAbility to build constructive working relationships across functions and organizational levels.\nStrong organizational and communication skills.\nProficiency with common business productivity applications, including spreadsheets and related data-analysis tools.\nA bachelor’s degree with relevant professional experience, or an equivalent combination of education and substantial inventory-control, production-planning, or supply chain experience.\nAbility to perform the essential responsibilities of the position, with reasonable accommodation where applicable.\nPreferred Qualifications That Set You Apart:\nExperience using Oracle Manufacturing or a comparable enterprise manufacturing and supply chain planning system.\nKnowledge of bill-of-material structures and their impact on planning, inventory, and production.\nFamiliarity with material requirements planning. \nExperience creating analytical tools, dashboards, or performance measures from planning-system data.\nExperience supporting sales and operations planning processes.\nDemonstrated success improving forecast accuracy, inventory performance, production-plan attainment, lead time, or throughput.\nExperience guiding or supporting the work of less-experienced planning professionals.\nOur Culture & Commitment to You:\nAt Emerson, we are committed to creating a workplace where employees feel supported, valued, and empowered to grow. 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