What are the responsibilities and job description for the Manager - Enterprise Planning & Optimization position at Walsworth?
Job Summary:
As the Manager – Enterprise Planning & Optimization, you will lead enterprise-level planning and optimization to ensure reliable customer delivery, balanced workloads, and cost-effective operations in partnership with many departments across the organization. You will drive optimization initiatives such as product-to-plant mapping, scheduling governance, logistics alignment, and MIS/ERP integration while preparing for future automation.
Essential Functions:
- Oversee enterprise scheduling governance and master scheduling standards.
- Direct MIS integration (Monarch Go Live) into scheduling and logistics workflows.
- Partner with the Marceline Scheduling Supervisor to ensure tactical stability while driving strategic orchestration of yearbook planning and delivery.
- Lead product-to-plant mapping, enterprise intake, cross plant scheduling logic, and enterprise continuous improvement.
- Develop executive dashboards and reports for capacity utilization, bottlenecks, and service-level impacts.
- Integrate scheduling governance with logistics to unify order-to-ship customer promises.
- Develop platform planning automation and enterprise decisions tools.
- Partner with MIS/ERP stakeholders to ensure optimization logic aligns with future technology upgrades and automation opportunities.
- Facilitate cross-functional executive reviews to support planning and optimization performance, forecast accuracy, and tradeoff decisions to strategic business goals.
- Develop capital plan, performance standards, and KPIs for enterprise planning and optimization.
- All other duties as assigned.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Strong cross-functional leadership and communication skills.
- Ability to balance strategic planning with operational execution.
- Expertise in scheduling, logistics, and enterprise optimization.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, ERP/MIS planning systems, and analytics dashboards.
- Skilled in scenario modeling, forecasting, and decision support.
Working Conditions/Physical Demands:
- Office and plant floor environments; travel to plants as needed.
- Capable of working in stressful conditions balancing competing priorities across enterprise manufacturing sites
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Operations, or Supply Chain required; MBA preferred.
- 8 years in operations, planning, or scheduling with enterprise-level responsibility.