Planning Director
BAE Systems USAJob Description The Senior Director, Planning provides strategic and operational leadership for planning organizations supporting both a business area and a centralized manufacturing hub. This role is accountable for establishing an integrated planning strategy that aligns customer and program demand with manufacturing capacity, material availability, resources, and business priorities. The Senior Director leads planning leaders and teams across both business-area/program-facing and factory-facing environments, creating a cohesive planning operating model that enables the organization to deliver on commitments, optimize manufacturing capacity, improve schedule performance, and respond rapidly to changing business and customer requirements. The Senior Director must have a solid understanding of ERP and the system and digital tools required to successfully execute planning processes, drive date-informed decision-making, and ensure effective integration across planning, manufacturing and supply chain operations. This leader serves as a critical integrator across Business Area leadership, Operations, Supply Chain, Programs, Engineering, Finance, and other functional organizations, The role requires the ability to balance program priorities with enterprise manufacturing requirements while establishing clear accountability, decision rights, escalation paths, and performance expectations across a matrixed organization. Key Responsibilities Strategic Planning Leadership Establish and execute an integrated planning strategy across business-area and manufacturing-hub organizations. Translate business strategy, customer demand, program requirements, and growth objectives into executable planning priorities. Develop planning capabilities, processes, systems, and organizational structures that support scalability, speed, and operational excellence. Establish consistent planning standards, metrics, governance, and operating rhythms across the organization. Identify emerging capacity, material, resource, and schedule constraints and develop mitigation strategies before they impact program execution. Business Area Planning Leadership Lead planning organizations aligned to business-area and program requirements, ensuring customer commitments and program priorities are translated into actionable supply and production plans. Partner with Program Management and business leaders to understand demand, priorities, schedule requirements, and risks. Ensure planning decisions appropriately balance program commitments, material availability, manufacturing capacity, inventory, and overall business priorities. Provide senior leadership with clear visibility to demand, capacity, constraints, risks, and recovery actions. Drive proactive identification and resolution of issues that could affect program execution or customer commitments. Manufacturing Hub Planning Leadership Lead the planning organization supporting a centralized manufacturing hub serving multiple business areas and programs. Establish an effective factory-facing planning model that optimizes shared manufacturing capacity and resources across competing priorities. Integrate demand from multiple business areas into a consolidated manufacturing plan and establish clear prioritization and allocation mechanisms. Partner with Manufacturing, Operations, Supply Chain, and Business Area leadership to balance factory efficiency, throughput, capacity utilization, and program needs. Establish constraint-based planning and escalation mechanisms to ensure the most critical capacity, material, and resource constraints receive timely leadership attention. Drive improved synchronization between program demand, factory capacity, material readiness, and production schedules. Organizational Leadership Lead, develop, and inspire a high-performing organization of planning leaders and professionals. Establish clear roles, responsibilities, decision rights, and accountability across business-area and hub planning t…