Job Description
Title: Lead Production Planner/Scheduler
Work Location: 100% Remote
Duration: Through March 31, 2027 (with potential for extension review)
Experience Required: 4+ years progressive experience in production planning, scheduling, and supply chain operations (Client and/or Food & Beverage industry experience strongly preferred)
Position Overview & Key Sourcing Focus Areas:
Work Location: 100% Remote
Duration: Through March 31, 2027 (with potential for extension review)
Experience Required: 4+ years progressive experience in production planning, scheduling, and supply chain operations (Client and/or Food & Beverage industry experience strongly preferred)
Position Overview & Key Sourcing Focus Areas:
- The Lead Production Planner/Scheduler will plan and execute detailed production operations, coordinating product flow across the production lifecycle.
- Production Asset Planning & Finite Scheduling: Candidate will own production planning of SKUs on specific manufacturing assets, running mid- to long-term planning through to finite scheduling, while partnering closely with plant operations, suppliers, and demand teams.
- FMCG / Shelf-Life Focus: Strong preference for experience within fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG/Client), specifically food or beverage categories where product shelf life is a primary operational constraint.
- Planning Frameworks: Proven background operating within an IBP / S&OP environment.
- Continuous Improvement: Experience driving root-cause analysis on plan performance to support waste reduction, fill-rate targets, and inventory optimization.
- Systems Proficiency: Strong working knowledge of NetSuite and advanced Excel skills (comfortable analyzing, modeling, and manipulating large operational datasets).
- External Manufacturing & Partners: Solid background collaborating with External Manufacturers (EM) and third-party partners to build production and fulfillment schedules in support of On Time-In Full (OTIF) targets.
- Supply Chain Contracts: Practical familiarity with supply chain contracts, tolling structures, and location-based production allocations.
- Working Style: Methodical, structured, and highly analytical, balanced with a collaborative, communicative mindset when interfacing with internal and external stakeholders.
- Build, maintain, and execute the Master Production Plan (MPP) to ensure optimal inventory and minimize excess stock and waste.
- Manage annual production plans aligned to defined bar splits by location to support tolling rates and sequencing parameters.
- Ensure External Manufacturer internal schedules match the MPP with accurate item numbers and quantities;actively manage backlog and backorders.
- Lead weekly EM production meetings and cross-functional S&OE reviews to identify supply risks, capacity constraints, and required decisions.
- Run sensitivity analyses on new launches, discontinuations, and SKU transitions;deliver inventory run-out, root-cause, and KPI reporting.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Remote, NJ (Remote) |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $42.25 |
| Company Size | 2,000 to 2,499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2000 |
| Website | http://www.lancesoft.com/ |
About Company
We are a $125 Million, NMSDC-certified Minority & Woman owned Workforce Solutions Company headquartered in the DC metro area with presence across US with global presence - Canada, Mexico, India, UK, Malaysia, Indonasia, Hongkong, Singapore, UAE. We are specialized in providing Workforce Solutions, SOW project delivery, Engineering Solutions, Creative Services. We currently support 100+ Fortune companies globally and across multiple industry segments. We are currently supporting several massive programs across industry segment nationally/globally (Intel, Ally, AMD, QUALCOMM, Morgan Stanley, Kraft/ Mondelez, MNP, Amdocs, Dell, SanDisk, Medtronic, Becton Dickinson, GE, Lockheed Martin, UTC, L-3 Communications, Caterpillar, BMW, Mercedes Benz, National Grid, Dominion, Energy Future Holdings, PSEG, 3M, Fidelity, Aetna, Humana, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Merck etc).
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.
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