Job Description

Brand Vacancy title Assistant Manager - Planning Ref 20963 Function Supply Chain City Chennai Salary Competitive Closing date 05/10/2025 Description
Triumph is one of the world's largest intimate apparel companies. It enjoys a presence in over 80 countries with the core brands Triumph and sloggi. Globally, the company serves 20,000 wholesale customers and sells its products in more than 2,300 controlled points of sale as well as via several own online shops. The Triumph Group is a member of the amfori Business Social Compliance Initiative (amfori BSCI).
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Our Planning Department in Chennai is looking for a
PLANNING ASSISTANT MANAGER
Your Responsibilities:

• Plan and control order conversions to ensure minimal interruptions to sewing lines.
• Minimize downtimes and increase OTIF by aligning sewing lines to their respective family groupings.
• Maintain style continuity where possible to minimize frequent style changeovers.
• Loading plan to be aligned with company's budgeted OEE targets.
• Provide a 2-week frozen plan at the beginning of each week with a M+1 month look ahead.
• Highlight deviations from loading plans.
• Meet OTIF requirements of 95% for the current PP month, backlog not to exceed 5% at any point.
• Conduct daily Lead time meetings with RMWH, MQA, Preproduction, Floor Managers and capture the data.
• Co-ordinate and align with capacity planning to ensure M+5 planning is robust.
• Weekly Planned style changeovers to actual should not exceed 10% variance.
• 0% deviation from 100% OTIF requirements on material availability prior to order conversion.
• Daily follow up and closures of open orders to meet shipment deadlines.
• Prepare recovery plans for missed weekly minutes and shipment deliveries.
• Prepare daily reports for the Operations meeting.
• Ensure coupon scanning is completed daily on time and in full.
• Interface with IT to correct discrepancies in coupon minutes and bar codes.
• Interface with FGWH and Capacity Planning for reconciliations on shortages and B-Grades

Your ideal profile:

• Bachelor's degree any course
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in planning, preferably from garments manufacturing industry
• Preferably with background in SAP and Smart sheet.
• Good communication skills both English and Tamil
• Advanced analytical skills.
• Proficiency in MS Office

We offer:
You will never walk alone
As a family owned business with more than 135 years of experience, Triumph embraces diversity throughout our global organization. Currently, our offices are present in over 40 countries across Europe and Asia having many international teams collaborate together every day. Guiding our corporate behaviors are respect and value for our employees, but also Collaboration as one of our key Corporate Competencies, being a core part of our every day working environment.
Make a Difference, together
The future belongs to our children. At Triumph, we want to be proud of our commitment to building a sustainable society and protecting the environment, and we work everyday to ensure our products are manufactured in an sustainable way. This is our vision: We want to be a company that is characterized by responsible leadership and consideration for future generations and that cares for the legacy that we leave behind to our children.
Putting People at the center
At Triumph we are committed to our employees, they represent the foundation for our success. This means that as a company, we are driven to offer great career opportunities in a dynamic fast-paced organization. Our HR function across the globe strives to support our employees in their development, through our Triumph Learning Academy
We continuously strive to recruit new talent, offering them one of the textile industry's most international working environments, excellent conditions and great development opportunities in a company still owned and managed by the founding families. Our headquarters employs people from more than 30 nationalities and as a European company, we are present in many key markets in Europe, like Germany, Italy, France and growing in Eastern Europe. We are proud to have become one of the leading players in Asia very early on, in countries like Japan, China and Singapore, as well as being an employer that people aspire to work for. As a company serving women, we fundamentally believe in gender equality and diversity. Women make up more than 50% of our company's workforce. In the last years, we have had a specific and successful drive to increase the number of women in management.
Triumph is committed to employing a diverse workforce. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability.
If you are seeking a great opportunity to develop your career, please send us your CV in English by clicking on Apply.