What are the responsibilities and job description for the Intercompany Planning Supervisor position at Hubbell Incorporated?
Job Overview
The Intercompany Planning Supervisor is responsible for leading intercompany production planning activities and personnel within a SAP-driven manufacturing environment. This role oversees planning execution for primarily Make‑to‑Stock (MTS) materials, with limited Make‑to‑Order (MTO) requirements, ensuring internal customer demand is met while balancing inventory targets, capacity constraints, and service levels. The position acts as the primary planning interface between supplying and receiving plants, ensuring consistent SAP master data, accurate planning signals, and effective cross-site coordination.
A Day In The Life
Key Responsibilities
Team Leadership & Execution
Building Relationships and Networks
Communicating and Influencing
Continuous Improvement
Customer Focus
Enabling Execution
Initiative and Drive
Hubbell Incorporated
Hubbell creates critical infrastructure solutions that power our customers, communities, people and the planet. Our company is strategically aligned around enabling grid modernization and electrification. As more products plug in to an aging grid, Hubbell solutions enable the transition to a more reliable, resilient and efficient energy infrastructure. Founded in 1888 our innovation has made us a leading global manufacturer of high quality electrical and utility solutions enabling customers to operate critical infrastructure reliably and efficiently.
The company operates in two segments. Hubbell Utility Solutions (HUS) enable the grid to conduct, communicate and control energy across utility applications and Hubbell Electrical Solutions (HES) are essential to managing power across a wide range of industries and applications. Our vertical market solutions can be applied to markets including Data Centers, Renewables, Commercial Buildings, Industrial, Telecom and Transportation. Supporting both of our business segments is our corporate and Hubbell Unified Business Solutions teams that provide consistent process, tools technologies across our businesses.
We are committed to operating sustainably and ethically while promoting an inclusive and supportive culture for our people to grow and develop in their careers. Our employees proudly work and serve our communities from our headquarters in Shelton, CT, across the United States and around the globe.
Hubbell Electrical Solutions
Hubbell Electrical Solutions (HES) are essential to managing power across a wide range of industries and applications. HES provides the critical components that allow operators of buildings, factories and other industrial infrastructure to connect, protect, wire and manage power.
Hubbell Incorporated, its subsidiaries and affiliates, is an EO Employer AA: M/F/Veteran/Disability. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other protected class.
The above summary of position responsibilities and requirements is not intended, and should not be construed, to be an exhaustive list of duties, skills, efforts, physical requirements, or working conditions associated with the position. It is intended to be an accurate reflection of those principal position elements essential for making decisions related to position performance, employee development, and compensation.
The Intercompany Planning Supervisor is responsible for leading intercompany production planning activities and personnel within a SAP-driven manufacturing environment. This role oversees planning execution for primarily Make‑to‑Stock (MTS) materials, with limited Make‑to‑Order (MTO) requirements, ensuring internal customer demand is met while balancing inventory targets, capacity constraints, and service levels. The position acts as the primary planning interface between supplying and receiving plants, ensuring consistent SAP master data, accurate planning signals, and effective cross-site coordination.
A Day In The Life
Key Responsibilities
Team Leadership & Execution
- Supervise, coach, and develop a team of intercompany production planners.
- Establish daily, weekly, and monthly planning priorities aligned to plant and business objectives.
- Ensure consistent application of planning standards, SAP transactions, and exception management.
- Drive accountability for intercompany service performance and inventory outcomes.
- Manage intercompany production and supply planning primarily in a Make‑to‑Stock environment while supporting select Make‑to‑Order materials.
- Develop and maintain intercompany supply plans to support forecasted demand, safety stock targets, and reorder point strategies.
- Coordinate production plans with supplying plants to ensure capacity, material availability, and lead times are achievable.
- Manage MTO materials to ensure customer or project-driven demand is planned, communicated, and executed accurately.
- Execute and oversee intercompany planning activities in SAP, including:
- MRP execution and exception management
- Maintenance of intercompany lead times, lot sizes, and planning parameters
- Review and action SAP planning messages and exception reports
- Ensure accuracy and integrity of SAP master data related to materials, plants, and intercompany flows.
- Partner with IT, Master Data, and Supply Chain teams to support SAP enhancements and process improvements.
- Serve as the primary planning contact between internal manufacturing sites.
- Collaborate closely with Manufacturing, Procurement, Logistics, and Customer Service to align intercompany plans.
- Facilitate regular intercompany supply reviews to address risks, constraints, and service performance.
- Support S&OP / IBP processes by providing intercompany supply plans and constraints.
- Monitor and analyze KPIs such as intercompany service level, schedule adherence, inventory turns, excess and obsolete inventory, and plan stability.
- Identify root causes of service or inventory gaps and lead corrective actions.
- Communicate risks, constraints, and recovery plans to leadership and internal stakeholders.
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives to improve planning accuracy, inventory health, and intercompany service levels.
- Drive standard planning processes across sites, balancing global standards with local execution needs.
- Ensure compliance with internal controls, financial policies, and intercompany transfer requirements.
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Operations, Business, or a related field.
- 5 years of experience in production planning or supply chain roles within a manufacturing environment.
- 2 years of direct supervisory or lead experience.
- Strong hands-on experience with SAP in a production planning or materials planning role.
- Demonstrated experience managing intercompany or multi-site supply chains.
- Solid understanding of MTS planning strategies with exposure to MTO materials.
- Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills.
- APICS CPIM or CSCP certification preferred.
Building Relationships and Networks
Communicating and Influencing
Continuous Improvement
Customer Focus
Enabling Execution
Initiative and Drive
Hubbell Incorporated
Hubbell creates critical infrastructure solutions that power our customers, communities, people and the planet. Our company is strategically aligned around enabling grid modernization and electrification. As more products plug in to an aging grid, Hubbell solutions enable the transition to a more reliable, resilient and efficient energy infrastructure. Founded in 1888 our innovation has made us a leading global manufacturer of high quality electrical and utility solutions enabling customers to operate critical infrastructure reliably and efficiently.
The company operates in two segments. Hubbell Utility Solutions (HUS) enable the grid to conduct, communicate and control energy across utility applications and Hubbell Electrical Solutions (HES) are essential to managing power across a wide range of industries and applications. Our vertical market solutions can be applied to markets including Data Centers, Renewables, Commercial Buildings, Industrial, Telecom and Transportation. Supporting both of our business segments is our corporate and Hubbell Unified Business Solutions teams that provide consistent process, tools technologies across our businesses.
We are committed to operating sustainably and ethically while promoting an inclusive and supportive culture for our people to grow and develop in their careers. Our employees proudly work and serve our communities from our headquarters in Shelton, CT, across the United States and around the globe.
Hubbell Electrical Solutions
Hubbell Electrical Solutions (HES) are essential to managing power across a wide range of industries and applications. HES provides the critical components that allow operators of buildings, factories and other industrial infrastructure to connect, protect, wire and manage power.
Hubbell Incorporated, its subsidiaries and affiliates, is an EO Employer AA: M/F/Veteran/Disability. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other protected class.
The above summary of position responsibilities and requirements is not intended, and should not be construed, to be an exhaustive list of duties, skills, efforts, physical requirements, or working conditions associated with the position. It is intended to be an accurate reflection of those principal position elements essential for making decisions related to position performance, employee development, and compensation.