Job Summary

This position is responsible for the management of daily flow of raw materials into finished goods in support of Sales, Production, and Inventory objectives to maintain customer service and inventory control in finished goods and WIP. This position entails production and distribution planning and execution activities for assigned retail and club within the Manufacturing location. This position requires daily interaction with planning and control systems and manages the overall product supply chain including frequent communication with Manufacturing and the Corporate Supply Chain partners to successfully maximize customer service while minimizing inventory and operating costs.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Responsible for performing analysis of supply to demand of finished goods and volume bonding, elaborating a component and capacity feasible plan to satisfy demands along with any other strategic builds, leading consensus of priorities and ensuring agreed upon priorities are accurately being reflected in such plan. Will create daily Sh n op Order Packets per production plan and will publish plan summary to interested parties.

Will continuously maintain production plan to enable excellent communications within the department and with customers regarding product availability, along with manufacturing and inventory teams to ensure the plan's successful and accurate execution.

Other responsibilities include the generation of Planned vs. Actual reporting of production schedule, identifying main root causes for disparities along with periodic review of Master Schedule to thoroughly understand the global manufacturing strategy, and ensure that the daily production is in fact a reflection of such.

Will support the Supply Chain Department in continuous process improvement efforts, with the intent of improving the flow of materials from the supply base to our customers while guarding against inventory obsolescence, along with other analysis and/or projects on an as needed basis.

Will elaborate production plans to satisfy product life cycle needs. Managing ramp-up plans as they relate to the manufacturing strategy, labor planning and the dynamic demand.

Will play key role in coordinating the execution of last builds per the end of life process.

Metrics managed will include WIP levels and trends, while working with manufacturing to control such.

Performs special assignments as requested.

Authority to Act

Adhere to Callaway Golf policies.

Works under limited supervision.

Work may be reviewed for overall accuracy and completeness.

Develops solutions to complex problems. Only the most critical problems are elevated to supervision.

Decision making authority on how to allocate the load to the factory's capacity

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Strong organizational, analytical and problem-solving skills Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Fluent in English and Spanish.

Excellent project management skills

Ability to analyze detail and perform structured decision-making on a daily basis.

Experienced in the use of standard Microsoft applications such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for management reporting and presentation.

Strong knowledge of SAP or other similar enterprise wide MRP system.

High degree of initiative and ownership, attention to detail, and the discipline to follow through on assigned tasks.

General knowledge of industry practices, standards, and techniques.

Will be required to regularly apply scheduling, planning and control principles and concepts in execution of duties.

Ability to develop solutions to a variety of problems of large to very large scope and complexity, often creating or revising company or departmental policies in the process.

Ability to work well with, and in many cases lead, others in a cross-functional team environment.

Must be capable of managing several priorities effectively and be able to identify and recommend best course of action from several alternatives.

Must have ability to understand financial impact of decisions.

Must demonstrate hands on experience in implementing and/or using ERP and related computer systems and technologies in areas of Demand Planning, MPS, RCCP, MRP, SFC, APS, Logistics and Inventory Management Experienced in Project Management techniques/planning and managing launches of new products a plus.

Experienced in working in single and multiple Manufacturing Plant and Distribution Warehouse environments.

Education and/or Experience

Bachelor's Degree, preferably in field relevant to job description (e.g. Operations, Materials Management, Industrial Engineering), or equivalent job experience.

Minimum 2-5 years experience in Production Planning or related field.

APICS (or other as appropriate) certified, or certification in progress and actively pursuing.