Full-Time Production Planning Analyst

The Senior Planning Analyst plays a key strategic and operational role by transforming complex data into actionable information that drives efficiency, optimizes resource allocation, and ensures the availability of finished products.

The incumbent acts as a business partner to management and various stakeholders, developing short, medium, and long-term planning strategies, while coordinating production with internal and external manufacturing partners.

In a complex and dynamic international environment, he or she contributes to aligning operations with the company's strategic objectives, while ensuring the stability and flexibility of the supply chain.

Main Responsibilities:

• Analysis and forecasting: Collect, analyze and interpret operational data to identify trends, inefficiencies and opportunities for improvement.
• Strategic and operational planning: Develop and maintain short, medium and long-term production plans, taking into account global supply lead times, demand variability and capacity constraints.
• Production coordination and manufacturing partnerships: Develop and manage production schedules in collaboration with external partners. Negotiate and align production capacities with demand forecasts. Ensure smooth communication to guarantee respect of deadlines and volumes.
• Critical component and inventory management: Monitor and anticipate critical material needs. Implement sourcing strategies to reduce the risk of shortages. Optimize inventory levels to ensure business continuity while minimizing costs.
• Process optimization: Identify and implement improvements, including automation and simplification of planning processes.
• Key Performance Indicators (KPIs): Develop and monitor dashboards to measure monthly and annual sales and operations, supplier and service rates.
• Project management: Coordinate and lead continuous improvement initiatives according to best practices.
• Collaboration and communication: Work closely with planning, procurement, engineering, sales and production teams in a multilingual and multicultural context. Provide informed recommendations to leaders.

Requirements:

• University degree in operations management, industrial engineering, logistics or a related field or equivalent experience.
• Experience: 5 to 7 years in a similar role (planning, operations, supply chain).
• Experience in a technological or electronic manufacturing environment (an asset).
• Analytical skills: Ability to synthesize complex data and propose suitable solutions.
• Interpersonal skills: Excellent communication, diplomacy, active listening and strong negotiation skills.
• Excellent problem-solving and prioritization skills.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel (pivot tables, complex formulas, etc.).
• Practical experience with Power Query and data analysis tools.
• Knowledge of ERP systems (Netsuite or equivalent).
• Bilingualism (French and English), frequent contacts outside Quebec.

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