Mativ is a global leader in specialty materials headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia. The Company offers a wide range of critical components and engineered solutions that connect, protect, and purify our world. 

Description:

As a Production Planner, you’ll play a key role in ensuring efficient and timely production within Mativ’s Sustainable & Adhesive Solutions function. You’ll develop and maintain production schedules, optimize machine utilization through SAP, and collaborate with global teams to align demand planning. This role is critical to meeting customer needs, maintaining inventory levels, and supporting site profitability. 

Located in Windsor, CT, this position reports to the Supply Chain Manager and contributes to continuous improvement efforts and site profitability.

Responsibilities:

Production Planning

• Develop and maintain production schedules based on demand forecasts, inventory levels, and capacity constraints.
• Coordinate intercompany demand planning with global teams for alignment and accuracy.
• Support SAP planning initiatives, including machine utilization, to optimize production capacity and improve site profitability.
• Monitor work center capacity and adjust schedules to maximize efficiency and throughput.

Inventory & Order Management

• Monitor and maintain appropriate inventory levels and safety stock to meet customer demand.
• Confirm and process commercial sales orders; manage purchase orders to ensure timely execution.
• Collaborate with buyers and procurement to adjust incoming materials based on production schedules and demand fluctuations.

Operational Coordination

• Partner with operations to prioritize workflow and ensure on-time delivery.
• Provide material availability and delivery updates to Customer Care; support order promising based on inventory and production schedules.
• Coordinate with Plan/Procure & Warehouse teams to execute end-to-end subcontracting processes.

Performance & Continuous Improvement

• Track and report service metrics (OTIF); prepare daily operational updates as needed.
• Collaborate with supply chain, manufacturing, and quality teams to ensure production readiness.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance planning accuracy and efficiency.

Additional Support

• Provide backup support for planners and other team members during PTO or absences.
• Perform other duties as assigned within the scope and skill level of the role.

Qualifications.

Required

• 3+ years of production planning experience in manufacturing.
• 3+ years in end-to-end supply chain processes (Source, Plan, Make, Deliver).
• Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain, Business or related field, or equivalent; experience
• ERP experience (SAP, Oracle, JD Edwards); strong understanding of MRP concepts.
• Advanced organizational skills and ability to manage priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Intermediate Excel skills.

Preferred

• SAP Planning experience
• Advanced Excel Skills (XLOOKUP’s, Pivot Tables, Data Analysis, Visualization)

• APICS or other professional Supply Chain/Planning certification
• Lean Six Sigma experience

WHAT WE OFFER

At Mativ, our benefits reflect how much we value and care for each other. We know that employees and their families have unique needs, so our comprehensive benefits offer flexibility, quality, and affordability. Here are just a few of the ways we support your well-being and that of your loved ones:

• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• Consumer-Driven Health Plan (CDHP)
• Preferred Provider Organization (PPO)
• Exclusive Provider Organization (EPO)
• Company-paid basic life insurance and Additional voluntary life coverage
• Paid vacation and competitive personal time off
• 401(k) savings plan with company match
• Employee assistance programs – available 24/7 to you and your family
• Wellness and Work Life Support - career development and educational assistance

ABOUT MATIV

Mativ Holdings, Inc. is a global leader in specialty materials headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia. The company connects, protects, and purifies the world every day through a wide range of critical components and engineered solutions that solve our customers’ most complex challenges. We manufacture on three continents and generate sales in nearly 100 countries through our family of business-to-business and consumer product brands. The company’s two segments, Filtration & Advanced Materials and Sustainable & Adhesive Solutions, target premium applications across diversified and growing end-markets, from filtration to healthcare to sustainable packaging and more. Our broad portfolio of technologies combines polymers, fibers, and resins to optimize the performance of our customers’ products across multiple stages of the value chain. Our leading positions are a testament to our best-in-class global manufacturing, supply chain, and materials science capabilities. We drive innovation and enhance performance, finding potential in the impossible.

Mativ and its subsidiaries are Equal Opportunity Employers. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.