Job TitlePlanning Optimization Leader
Position OverviewThe Planning Optimization Leader is responsible for enabling end-to-end planning excellence across fibers, yarn, extrusion, finished goods, and hard/soft surface supply chains. This role merges OMP Master Planning, Inventory Optimization, and Analytics, ensuring that supply plans, capacity models, data systems, and inventory strategies work together to deliver world-class service, optimized cost, and improved planning precision.
The Analyst serves as a cross-functional integrator-connecting Planning, Sourcing, Logistics, Manufacturing, Data & Analytics, Customer Care, and Planning Technology teams to drive improved alignment, visibility, and decision-making across the enterprise.
This role is ideal for an analytically strong planning professional who thrives in complex environments and enjoys solving problems that span multiple value streams.
Responsibilities: Integrated Supply & Inventory Planning
- Optimization of the OMP advanced planning tool for Fibers and carpet's long-range, integrated supply plans
- Ensure processes are maintaining a time-phased inventory and capacity plans to balance customer service expectations (OTIF, fill rate) with operational constraints.
- Evaluate supply, capacity, and inventory scenarios to ensure systems are clearly identifying and predicting bottlenecks and propose corrective actions.
Optimization & Analytics
- Serve as the subject matter expert for Integrated Planning analytics, providing insights that improve forecast accuracy, inventory health, and supply plan execution.
- Partner with data analysts and IT Planning teams to develop dashboards, KPIs, and automated reports to support daily and strategic planning activities.
- Mine, prepare, and analyze structured and unstructured datasets to influence business decisions that impact manufacturing and inventory costs
- Partner with data analysts to build complex SQL or analytical models to enhance visibility into production, run strategies, constraints, and inventory trends.
Cross-Functional Integration
- Partner with Fiber/Yarn Manufacturing, Hard Surface Planning, Customer Care, Sales, Sourcing, and Logistics to align production, inventory, and demand plans.
- Serve as a connector between operational planning and enterprise strategic planning (IBP/S/&OP).
- Facilitate decision-making by translating complex data into simple, actionable insights for stakeholders.
Process Improvement & Standard Work
- Identify process gaps across extrusion, twisting/heatset, carpet manufacturing, and planning systems; develop and implement solutions.
- Lead or support parameter governance for OMP (e.g., lead times, MOQ logic, min/max, safety stock, yarn conversion assumptions).
Operational Support
- Demonstrated experience leading projects and managing organizational change, ensuring timely delivery, stakeholder alignment, and successful adoption of new processes or systems.
- Monitor fiber, yarn, and finished goods inventories-including kanban logic-and drive continuous improvements in target levels and replenishment processes.
- Provide daily visibility tools to support production scheduling, network health, service performance, and bottleneck identification.
Qualifications:Required
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Business, Analytics, or related field.
- 5-10 years of experience in Supply Chain, Planning, Manufacturing roles with Data/Analytics related experience.
- Experience with OMP, HSRP, or similar planning tools.
- Proven experience using analytics to solve business problems and support decision-making.
- Proficiency with AI tools and data analytics applications to drive insights, automation, and business decision-making.
Preferred
- Experience in fiber/yarn, extrusion, or carpet planning.
- APICS/ASCM (CPIM/CSCP) certification.
- Experience in time-series forecasting or advanced statistical modeling
- Experience integrating AI capabilities and advanced analytics into business workflows to enhance forecasting accuracy, decision quality, and operational efficiency.
Success in this Role:The ideal candidate is:
- Self-motivated and comfortable navigating ambiguity.
- Energized by cross-functional collaboration.
- Comfortable with detail, data, and complexity.
- Passionate about improving systems, solving problems, and driving better planning outcomes.
Competencies:- Change Leadership
- Strategic Influence
- Customer Orientation
- Analytical & Critical Thinking
- Delivering Results
Full-time on-site Dalton, GA, with hybrid options
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