Planning & Control Manager -Domestic

Job Description

Why Rolls-Royce?

Rolls-Royce is one of the most enduring and iconic brands in the world and has been at the forefront of innovation for over a century. We design, build and service systems that provide critical power to customers where safety and reliability are paramount.

We are proud to be a force for progress, powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.

We want to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that has shaped our history continues into our future, and we need people like you to come and join us on this journey.

We’ll provide an environment of caring and belonging where you can be yourself. An inclusive, innovative culture that invests in you, gives you access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities where you can grow your career and make a difference.

The Opportunity:

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Production Planning and Control Manager (Domestic) to join the Hydromechanical team, based at Control Systems Birmingham.

As a Production Planning and Control Manager, you will be responsible for leading Planning & Control activities across the product lifecycle for the domestic manufacturing supply chain. You will be accountable for coordinating the Sales and Operations Planning Processes (SIOP) to enable optimised inventory and logistics cost whilst ensuring delivery performance expectations are achieved.

Working on-site with Operations Leadership, this role will lead a team of Planners and Production Controllers tasked with delivering the detail plan for more than 1000 components and 70 unit assemblies delivered to both OE and MRO customers worldwide.

What you will be doing:

1. Work with Operations, Manufacturing, ME, Quality & PM/PI managers within Domestic team to ensure performance enablers are understood, prioritised and supported. Feeding forecast improvements back into the plants planning assumptions.
2. Lead the 4 weekly planning process to create a cohesive set of balanced plans that deliver business and customer operational requirements, aligned to the plants load and capacity statements.
3. Utilise rough cut load/ capacity planning techniques to provide indicative responses to guide immediate impact assessments.
4. Lead scenario modelling to ensure impact of planning/ scheduling decisions is understood at a manufacturing group, business unit or sector level.
5. Provide management reporting suitable for a Senior Business Leader audience.
6. Develop inventory budgets and forecasts that deliver year on year improvements in stock turns.
7. Prevent the creation of surplus or obsolete inventory through monitoring the demand/ change signals to identify risk at the earliest opportunity and support the timely operational and financial treatment.

Who we’re looking for:

At Rolls-Royce we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. These principles form the behaviours that guide us and are an essential component of our assessment process. They are the fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.

1. Educated to degree level or relevant professional qualification.
2. Experience of production planning & control is essential.
3. Has Manufacturing or P&C experience.
4. Experience of Load and Capacity is desirable.
5. Able to manage and make decisions under challenging circumstances.
6. Able to take responsibility for their own development.
7. Working knowledge of Manufacturing execution system is desirable.
8. Working knowledge of SAP is desirable.

Has the ability to influence others and build healthy professional relationships.

Job Category Supply Chain Planning & Control Posting Date 02 Apr 2025; 00:04 Posting End Date 15 Apr 2025