Sales and Operations Planning Manager
Guardian Industries, Auburn Hills, Michigan, United States, 48326
Your Job
Guardian Glass is looking for a Sales and Operations Planning Manager to join our team!
This role can be based out of DeWitt IA, Richburg SC, or Auburn Hills MI.
As a Sales and Operations Planning Manager, you'll sit at the intersection of supply chain, operations, and commercial teams, turning customer demand into executable production plans that drive performance across our North American Glass network.
This is a highly visible, newly created role where your ability to influence, analyze, and lead through collaboration will have a direct impact on service, inventory health, and operational success. If you thrive in dynamic environments, enjoy solving complex planning problems, and want to make a tangible impact, this is an opportunity to grow your career with a global manufacturing leader.
Our Team You’ll join Guardian’s North America Glass organization, working closely with plant leadership, commercial partners, customer service, and supply planning teams. Reporting to the Regional Master Planning Manager, you’ll serve as the critical link between supply chain strategy and plant execution, helping ensure our operations are aligned to customer needs and business goals. Our teams value initiative, thoughtful problem solving, and leadership through influence rather than authority.
What You Will Do
Own the sales and operations planning process ensuring executable production plans within a 0-60 day planning horizon
Lead and manage finite scheduling resources to achieve schedule adherence and attainment targets
Translate integrated business planning outputs from RapidResponse into actionable production schedules within the M3 ERP system
Partner with plant operations, commercial teams, and customer service to minimize service failures and improve customer outcomes
Develop and maintain supply planning assumptions based on input from plant operations
Create and manage inventory stocking strategies aligned with demand patterns, commercial strategy, and customer contracts
Optimize inventory levels while managing aging inventory to reduce risk of obsolescence
Collaborate with warehouse and shipping leaders to align inventory levels with capacity and dock availability
Provide input into inventory strategies for new products, existing items, and product phase outs
Travel up to 20% to support plants within your area of responsibility
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
Experience in production planning, supply planning, and/or finite scheduling
Strong analytical and organizational skills with experience turning data into actionable insights
Experienced and comfortable working with large data sets within Microsoft Excel
What Will Put You Ahead
APICS certification
Experience using Kinaxis RapidResponse or other integrated business planning tools
Experience working in complex manufacturing or multi plant environments
Demonstrated ability to lead through influence in cross functional teams
At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.
Hiring Philosophy All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.
Who We Are As a Koch company, Guardian Glass is one of the world's largest manufacturers of float, value-added and fabricated glass products and solutions. We produce high-performance glass for architectural, residential, interior, transportation and technical glass applications. You’ll find our glass in homes, offices and cars and in some of the world’s most iconic projects.
At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.
Our Benefits Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.
Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.
Equal Opportunities Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aqui, or tu).
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This role can be based out of DeWitt IA, Richburg SC, or Auburn Hills MI.
As a Sales and Operations Planning Manager, you'll sit at the intersection of supply chain, operations, and commercial teams, turning customer demand into executable production plans that drive performance across our North American Glass network.
This is a highly visible, newly created role where your ability to influence, analyze, and lead through collaboration will have a direct impact on service, inventory health, and operational success. If you thrive in dynamic environments, enjoy solving complex planning problems, and want to make a tangible impact, this is an opportunity to grow your career with a global manufacturing leader.
Our Team You’ll join Guardian’s North America Glass organization, working closely with plant leadership, commercial partners, customer service, and supply planning teams. Reporting to the Regional Master Planning Manager, you’ll serve as the critical link between supply chain strategy and plant execution, helping ensure our operations are aligned to customer needs and business goals. Our teams value initiative, thoughtful problem solving, and leadership through influence rather than authority.
What You Will Do
Own the sales and operations planning process ensuring executable production plans within a 0-60 day planning horizon
Lead and manage finite scheduling resources to achieve schedule adherence and attainment targets
Translate integrated business planning outputs from RapidResponse into actionable production schedules within the M3 ERP system
Partner with plant operations, commercial teams, and customer service to minimize service failures and improve customer outcomes
Develop and maintain supply planning assumptions based on input from plant operations
Create and manage inventory stocking strategies aligned with demand patterns, commercial strategy, and customer contracts
Optimize inventory levels while managing aging inventory to reduce risk of obsolescence
Collaborate with warehouse and shipping leaders to align inventory levels with capacity and dock availability
Provide input into inventory strategies for new products, existing items, and product phase outs
Travel up to 20% to support plants within your area of responsibility
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
Experience in production planning, supply planning, and/or finite scheduling
Strong analytical and organizational skills with experience turning data into actionable insights
Experienced and comfortable working with large data sets within Microsoft Excel
What Will Put You Ahead
APICS certification
Experience using Kinaxis RapidResponse or other integrated business planning tools
Experience working in complex manufacturing or multi plant environments
Demonstrated ability to lead through influence in cross functional teams
At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.
Hiring Philosophy All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.
Who We Are As a Koch company, Guardian Glass is one of the world's largest manufacturers of float, value-added and fabricated glass products and solutions. We produce high-performance glass for architectural, residential, interior, transportation and technical glass applications. You’ll find our glass in homes, offices and cars and in some of the world’s most iconic projects.
At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.
Our Benefits Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.
Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.
Equal Opportunities Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aqui, or tu).
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