Central Production Planner (f/m/d)

Position Overview: Central Production Planner – key strategic role responsible for planning and optimizing production activities across all factories. The role ensures alignment of production needs with sales forecasts, stock levels, predefined parameters and coverage objectives, collaborating closely with factories, managing planning data, monitoring performance and driving continuous process improvement.

Job Responsibilities

• Production Planning and Inventory Optimization: Ensure production requirements align with existing inventory, demand forecasts and defined coverage objectives for permanent suitcase references. Update and improve the Production Data Plan (PDP) by correcting data, refreshing files and proposing process enhancements.
• Capacity Management and Alignment: Contribute to capacity definition discussions with factory supply chain planning teams and realign post‑S&OP capacity based on latest forecasts and central stock objectives. Conduct macro‑level production plan simulations and adjust the production mix for the permanent assortment considering factory constraints.
• Daily/Weekly Production Follow‑up: Monitor weekly performance against each factory’s capacity, assess impacts on target stock coverage and lead weekly meetings with factories (DE, CA, CZ) to discuss production and issues. Communicate permanent blocking points to the central team and develop tools for risk level communication.
• Production Planning Projects: Contribute to review of production planning processes and tools, and develop Production KPIs (e.g., Production Adherence) aligned with stock and coverage objectives. Implement a weekly routine process for PDP updates (files, routines, calls, alerts, etc.) applicable to all factories and support new stock policy implementation.

Your Profile

• Master in engineering or business, ideally with specialization in supply chain management.
• Experience (e.g., 3 years) in production planning, ideally in an international manufacturing environment.
• Strong collaborative and negotiation skills to work effectively with diverse teams (procurement, production).
• Highly organized and proactive, with strong written and oral communication skills.
• Analytical mind and ability to solve complex problems to manage and interpret large volumes of data.
• Proficiency in office software (advanced Excel essential).
• Fluency in English (written and oral) is essential. Proficiency in German is a strong asset.

Benefits

• 30 days paid vacation per year
• Flexible working hours
• RIMOWA Essential Cabin suitcase as a gift after the probationary period
• Corporate benefits and 30% discount on the RIMOWA assortment
• Company pension scheme with a high employer contribution or other capital‑forming benefits
• Great canteen with freshly cooked and affordable food
• Urban Sports Club membership, public transportation ticket & job bike (partly subsidised)
• International environment and development opportunities within LVMH

We celebrate our inclusive and diverse culture. We know that for our business to thrive, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities in each of the countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base. We view diversity as one of the key enablers that helps our business to grow.