Production Planning Manager (Local Vietnamese Only)

A leading global manufacturer in Binh Duong is seeking a Production Planning Manager to join their team and drive excellence in capacity control.

This role offers you the opportunity to shape production planning strategies, develop local talent, and foster a safe, supportive environment for all employees. You will be at the heart of translating scheduling plans into actionable capacity production operations, ensuring seamless coordination across multiple departments and processes. The organisation is committed to nurturing its people, providing flexible schedules—including weekends and night shifts during critical periods—and supporting your professional growth through training and development. If you are passionate about manufacturing, thrive in a dynamic environment, and want to make a meaningful impact on both productivity and people, this is your chance to step into a pivotal leadership position.

• You will have the opportunity to lead a diverse team, developing future leaders while fostering an inclusive and collaborative workplace culture that values every individual’s contribution.
• The organisation prioritises safety, employee engagement, and continuous improvement, offering extensive training opportunities and support for your professional development.

What you'll do:

As Production Planning Manager in Binh Duong you will play a central role in transforming strategic scheduling plans into practical capacity production operations. Your day-to-day responsibilities will involve monitoring output against targets across various production areas and processes while proactively adjusting plans to address any gaps or risks. You will collaborate extensively with cross-functional teams—ranging from Scheduling to Warehouse—to ensure smooth material flow and timely shipments. By maintaining robust data management systems and developing performance dashboards you will enable quick fact-based decisions that keep production on track. Your leadership will extend beyond operational tasks as you coach team members in planning discipline and problem-solving techniques. Success in this role means not only achieving productivity goals but also building a strong internal pipeline of local talent within a safe environment where everyone feels supported.

• Convert confirmed scheduling plans into executable daily/weekly/monthly production capacity plans for plate products by area, process, and shipment stream, ensuring alignment with capacity, lead time, material flow, productivity, and shipment commitments.
• Monitor daily and weekly output against production plans by area and process; highlight gaps, risks, remaining quantities, and coordinate recovery actions to maintain schedule adherence.
• Adjust production plans proactively for expedite items, abnormal situations such as missing capacity or quality holds, material shortages, tooling issues, or changes in shipment priorities.
• Collaborate closely with Scheduling, Production, Warehouse, IE, Quality, MQC, RAF, Shipment, Tooling, and other support functions to protect FROT targets and campaign curves.
• Translate demand loading into required headcount, skill sets, machine capacity, tooling needs, shift requirements; maintain an 8-week outlook for people movement with adequate preparation windows.
• Coordinate material requests and receipts from Warehouse according to released production plans; control WIP quantity, location, status, flow and aging by area and process.
• Lead risk assessment for replenishment and campaign plans; escalate constraints with clear impact analysis and ensure readiness of materials, manpower, skills and equipment before plan release.
• Own reliable shop floor control data covering productivity metrics; serve as business owner for AX/shop-floor-control user support and issue escalation; develop dashboards for fast decision-making.
• Drive continuous improvement projects related to shop-floor planning efficiency; monitor project delivery against approved plans and standardise successful practices across teams.
• Coach Specialists, Group Leaders, Team Leaders and Admin & Coordinator team members in planning discipline; clarify roles for area planning and daily tracking; foster collaboration through visual management.

What you bring:

To excel as Production Planning Manager you will bring substantial experience from manufacturing environments where you have managed both operational complexity and people development. Your background should include proven expertise in production planning methodologies—covering everything from capacity forecasting to WIP management—and hands-on familiarity with ERP/MRP systems like Microsoft Dynamics AX. You will demonstrate advanced analytical capabilities using MS Office tools alongside strong problem-solving skills rooted in Lean principles. Your ability to coordinate across multiple departments ensures that material flow remains uninterrupted even during challenging situations. Beyond technical know-how your interpersonal strengths—such as stakeholder engagement facilitation negotiation coaching motivation—will help you nurture future leaders within your team. Adaptability resilience structure under pressure are key traits that set you apart especially when navigating dynamic manufacturing environments.

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering or related field is required for this position.
• Minimum 8-10 years of experience in manufacturing environments focusing on production planning/control or industrial engineering; at least 3-5 years managing people within these settings.
• Deep knowledge of daily/weekly production planning methods including capacity/headcount planning; shipment/replenishment/campaign control; WIP/job-aging management; output tracking.
• Hands-on experience with ERP/MRP systems (Microsoft Dynamics AX super-user or comparable ERP experience is highly advantageous); proficiency in advanced MS Office tools for data visualisation.
• Ability to build capacity/productivity projections using standard time calculations; skill utilisation; working hours; absence/overtime tracking; yield analysis; operating allowances.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional teams such as Warehouse Scheduling IE Quality Engineering Tooling Finance Production within complex manufacturing flows.
• Proficiency in visual management Lean manufacturing tiered daily management root-cause analysis 8D methodology data-driven problem solving approaches.
• Familiarity with plate-product flow replenishment campaign planning multi-stage finishing/plating operations is considered an advantage but not mandatory.
• Understanding of safety 5S quality regulatory compliance requirements relevant to industrial manufacturing environments is essential.
• Excellent interpersonal communication stakeholder management facilitation negotiation skills combined with collaborative mindset constructive challenge ability coaching motivation resilience adaptability structured approach.

What sets this company apart:

This organisation stands out as a global leader in manufacturing with a deep commitment to employee wellbeing safety and professional growth. Their focus on developing local talent through structured leadership pipelines ensures that every team member has access to training opportunities mentorship programmes and career advancement pathways. The company’s dedication to continuous improvement is evident through its investment in state-of-the-art systems robust data management practices and collaborative cross-functional teamwork. Employees benefit from a supportive leadership culture where open communication problem-solving innovation are encouraged at every level. Safety compliance quality standards are rigorously upheld creating an environment where everyone can thrive together. If you value inclusivity dependability knowledge sharing—and want to contribute meaningfully within a respected global network—this is the place for you.

What's next:

If you are ready to take your career forward as Production Planning Manager apply now to join a collaborative team where your expertise will be valued!

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