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We make life more comfortable.Leggett & Platts overall mission is a commitment to enhance lives by delivering quality products, offering empowering and rewarding careers, and doing our part in bringing about a better future.Leggett & Platts inventive heritage and leadership in the residential products industry span more than 130 years. As The Components People, we are the leading supplier of a wide range of products and components for all areas of life, including mattress springs and carpet cushion, as well as bedding machinery and erosioncontrol products.From aerospace tubing and fabricated assemblies to flooring underlayment and carpet cushion, Leggett & Platt has divisions that design, manufacture, and sell a variety of products. Our reliable product development and launch capability, coupled with our global footprint, make us a trusted partner for customers in the aerospace, hydraulic cylinders, flooring, textile, and geo components industries.Learn more about the history of Leggett :Position SummaryThe Global Capacity Planner is an external facing role and will collaborate with Sales to understand customer demand signals and verify adequate component part capacity is in place for multibranch shared external tooling and / or processes. Collaborate with the Operations team to manage supply constraints and ensure that those constraints are resolved in a timely manner. Work with the Category Management and Finance teams to identify and justify capacity investment opportunities. Continuously enhance the Capacity Planning process to ensure analysis quality and that supply constraints are mitigated effectively, and efficiently.Prepare models to plan tooling / process capacity of critical, multibranch suppliers effectively. Analyze short and mediumterm data from Sales, Operations, and Suppliers to monitor supply / customer demand balance.Develop recommendations to manage capacity / customer demand gaps. Align with the Business, Sales, & Procurement teams.Identify continuous Supply / Demand gaps which represent an opportunity to increase capacity. Work with Category Management to develop costeffective solution. Present recommendation(s) to Purchasing, Finance and Business Leadership.Design and maintain all performance capacity reports and statistics for management.Key ResponsibilitiesMonitor multibranch external supplier capacity to ensure adequate supply to meet customer demand.Prepare recommendations for shortterm and mediumterm capacity adjustments. Secure alignment with critical stake holders.Develop process to update and maintain effective capacity limits in supply planning applications (Blue Yonder)Represent Procurement as the point of contact highlight critical supply chain decisions tied to volume requirementsEducational RequirementsBachelor's degree in Supply Chain or Engineering.Experience NeededStrong ability to develop and maintain relationships, influence stakeholders, and drive outcomes.Business acumen and problemsolving skills.Strong data analysis and reporting skills.Experience with collaboration with international teams including Asia and Europe.Familiar with enterprise resource planning.Collaboration with other team members and departments.Automotive Industry Experience preferred. #J-18808-Ljbffr