Manager, Capacity Planning

**Further your career at Ball, a world leader in manufacturing sustainable aluminum packaging and aerospace solutions.
Achieve extraordinary things when you join our team, and make a difference in your professional development, the community, and around the globe
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**Primary Purpose of this Position**:
Optimize logistics network efficiency and effectiveness through capacity planning and network modelling.
Analyze infrastructure, forecasts demand, and designs agile, cost-effective networks to accommodate growth while maximizing service levels.
**What will you be responsible for?
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- Conduct detailed analysis of current logistics capacity, including warehouse space, transportation routes, and distribution centers, to identify areas for optimization.
- Utilize advanced modeling techniques and simulation tools to forecast future demand and assess the impact on logistics capacity and resources.
- Design and optimize logistics networks, considering factors such as transportation costs, lead times, inventory levels, and service requirements.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including commercial, operations, and finance, to align capacity planning efforts with business goals and objectives.
- Develop and maintain capacity planning models and tools to facilitate scenario analysis and decision-making.
- Monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) related to logistics capacity and network performance and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Lead projects to implement capacity expansion initiatives, such as warehouse expansions, transportation fleet upgrades, or network reconfigurations.
- Conduct regular reviews and audits of logistics capacity and network performance to ensure alignment with business needs and objectives.
- Stay informed about industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in logistics capacity planning and network modeling.
- Provide guidance and support to logistics team members on capacity planning processes, tools, and methodologies.
**What are we looking for?
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- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Supply Chain Management or Statistics.
- Experience in capacity planning within logistics, including forecasting demand and optimizing resources to accommodate growth efficiently.
- Experience doing network modeling, utilizing tools and techniques to design agile and cost-effective logistics networks.
- Experience in logistics operations, with a solid understanding of transportation, warehousing, and distribution processes to inform network optimization strategies.
- ** Experience**:
- Experience designing and optimizing logistics networks, considering various factors such as costs, lead times, and service requirements.
- Experience conducting detailed analysis of logistics capacity and network performance, interpreting data to identify optimization opportunities.
- advanced modeling techniques and simulation tools to forecast future demand and evaluate logistics capacity.
- Experience collaborating effectively with teams across departments to align capacity planning efforts with business goals and objectives.
**Knowledge of**:
- Logistics capacity, including warehouse space, transportation routes, and distribution centers, as well as knowledge of key performance indicators.
- Advanced modelling techniques and simulation tools used for forecasting future demand.
- Logistics network design principles, including factors such as transportation costs, lead times, inventory levels, and service requirements.
When you join Ball you belong to a team of over 21,000 members worldwide.
Our products range from infinitely recyclable aluminum cans, cups to aerosol bottles that enable our customers to contribute to a better world.
Each of us has a deep commitment to diversity and inclusion which is the foundation of our culture of belonging.
Everyone at Ball is making a difference by doing what we love.
Because what we create may change, but what we will always make is a difference.
Please note the advertised job title might vary from the job title on the contract due to local job title structure and global HR systems.
** No agencies please.