Planning Director

About the Role:

This can be located anywhere in the United States.

We are seeking a high-impact planning leader to oversee enterprise-wide planning operations across a multi-site manufacturing network. This role leads four Regional Planning Managers and a team of 30+ planning professionals responsible for materials planning, supplier management, inventory strategy, production scheduling, and ERP-driven planning processes.

This is not a maintenance role. We are looking for a leader who can quickly assess current processes, identify opportunities, and drive meaningful improvements across the planning organization. The ideal candidate has progressed through planning and supply chain leadership roles within a manufacturing environment and possesses both the strategic vision and operational discipline necessary to build a world-class planning function.

Long-term, this individual should have the leadership capability and business acumen to assume broader supply chain leadership responsibilities within the organization.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead the Planning Organization

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of Planning Managers and a distributed network of planners across multiple sites
• Establish standardized processes, clear accountability, and performance expectations across the planning function
• Build team capability in material planning, scheduling, ERP utilization, and data-driven decision making

Drive Raw Material Planning Excellence

• Own enterprise-wide planning strategies for key raw materials including aluminum, steel, copper, and plastics
• Ensure strong execution of material planning processes to maintain supply continuity while optimizing inventory levels
• Partner with Procurement to align supply strategies with market conditions, supplier constraints, and lead times
• Improve planning parameters such as safety stock, reorder points, and planning horizons

Optimize Production Scheduling & Constraints Management

• Lead development and execution of production scheduling strategies across all manufacturing sites
• Ensure schedules effectively account for constraints including capacity, labor, changeovers, material availability, and maintenance
• Drive improvements in schedule attainment, throughput, and plant-level execution
• Build proactive constraint and bottleneck management capabilities

Strengthen ERP & Planning Systems Discipline

• Serve as the functional leader for planning within ERP/MRP systems
• Drive data accuracy, process compliance, and effective system utilization across sites
• Partner with IT to enhance planning system capabilities and reporting tools
• Enable more efficient, exception-based planning processes

Enable Cross-Functional Alignment

• Partner with Operations, Procurement, Customer Service, and Commercial teams to align supply and demand plans
• Support S&OP / integrated business planning processes
• Lead planning response during supply disruptions, demand shifts, or capacity constraints

Deliver Performance & Continuous Improvement

• Establish and manage KPIs including service levels, schedule adherence, inventory performance, and material availability
• Lead root cause analysis and corrective actions to improve planning outcomes
• Drive continuous improvement and standardization across the planning network

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Engineering, or related field
• 10+ years of experience in supply chain planning, materials planning, and/or production scheduling
• 5+ years of leadership experience, including managing managers and multi-site teams
• Willingness to travel up to 75%
• Deep expertise in:
• Raw material planning and inventory strategies
• Production scheduling and capacity/constraints management
• ERP/MRP systems and planning process execution
• Proven success in a complex manufacturing environment

Preferred

• Experience in building products, metals, plastics, or similar industrial manufacturing
• Familiarity with commodity-based raw materials (aluminum, steel, copper, resins)
• Experience with ERP systems such as SAP, Oracle, JD Edwards, or Microsoft Dynamics

About Us

Gibraltar is a leading manufacturer and supplier of products and services for North American agtech, renewable energy, residential, and infrastructure markets. By building solutions that make life better for people and the planet, Gibraltar advances the art and science of engineering, science and technology to shape the future of comfortable living, sustainable power, and productive growing. Guided by an inclusive, values-driven culture that celebrates and rewards different perspectives, we work together to create lasting positive impact on everyone our business touches. To learn more about what makes us #GibraltarProud, visit our website: www.gibraltar1.com

Gibraltar is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and gives all applicants for employment equal consideration regardless of race, color, sex, religion, national origin, arrest record, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, transgender status, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, veteran status, pregnancy, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law. Upon request and consistent with applicable laws, Gibraltar will provide reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities who need an accommodation to fully participate in the application process.