If you’re at your best when the plan is clear, the factory can run smoothly, and the numbers actually mean something, you’ll like this role.
We’re hiring a Production Supply Planner to turn demand signals into production plans that work in the real world: capacity, materials, labour, service, and cost all balanced.

This is an onsite role in Drogheda, close to manufacturing, where strong planning directly shows up in performance.

The Opportunity

This role sits at the center of our end-to-end supply, translating forecasts and inventory strategy into short, medium and long-term production plans that protect service, cost and working capital.
It’s also a genuine chance to raise the bar on how production planning is done here bringing structure, repeatability and best practice, while staying pragmatic enough to keep the business moving when systems or data aren’t perfect. You won’t be doing this alone: there’s experience in the team to learn from, and the scope to improve how we plan as we grow.

What You’ll Be Accountable For

You’ll be accountable for building production plans that are feasible, stable, and executable, aligned to forecast demand, capacity and inventory targets, and robust enough to hold under day-to-day pressure. You’ll set and monitor the cadence of production (sequencing, lot sizes, lead times), keep plans within global stock-holding policies and customer dispatch requirements, and ensure the right trade-offs are made between cost, service and capacity.

You’ll also be the person who spots constraints early and acts fast whether that’s capacity bottlenecks, material shortages, labour constraints, or disruption from quality holds and operational changes surfacing risks clearly and driving mitigation with the right stakeholders. You’ll use SAP S/4HANA and SAP IBP to convert demand signals into executable schedules, maintain planning parameters and master data integrity, and run scenarios that support decisions in S&OP/IBP cycles including capacity analysis and forward-looking risks that inform future investment choices.

Who This Role Is For

This role is for someone who enjoys being close to operations and thrives on turning complexity into a plan people can follow. You’ve worked in production planning, supply planning, or a closely related supply role and you understand the reality of balancing service, cost, quality and factory constraints in a high-volume environment.

You’ll likely do especially well if you’ve supported an ERP implementation/embedding (or worked through one) because you know how to deliver through gaps, build sensible workarounds when needed, and steadily put better structures and best practices in place as issues are resolved.

What Will Make You Successful Here

You work like an owner: you’re organised, calm under pressure, and you don’t wait to be asked before you surface risk. You’re evidence-led and practical, able to use data (often in Excel as well as SAP) to make decisions and explain trade-offs clearly, without hiding behind complexity. You build trust across functions because you communicate early, follow through on commitments, and you can influence outcomes without formal authority particularly with Production, Procurement, Demand Planning, Warehouse, Engineering, Quality and Finance. Most importantly, you care about plan stability and continuous improvement: each cycle leaves the process stronger than you found it.

Why Join WaterWipes as a Production Supply Planner?

WaterWipes is a fast-growing, performance-led manufacturing business where good planning has real impact. In this role, your work directly shapes production efficiency, service performance, inventory health and cost and you’ll be close enough to the factory floor to see the difference quickly.
If you’re someone who wants ownership, visibility, and the chance to improve how planning is done not just maintain it you’ll find the scope here.

Location & Practicalities

This is an onsite role based in Drogheda, Ireland, with day-to-day proximity to manufacturing as a key part of success.

If this sounds like you, apply Today.

Why work for us?
‘The WaterWipes Way’ is underpinned by our Values of: Bravery, Excellence & Respect
We look for individuals who will drive acceptable actions and behaviours that will reflect our vision and values.

WaterWipes offers all the benefits of an established global brand, along with the exciting possibilities of an organisation that lives and breathes change.

There are so many reasons to join us on our ambitious journey to becoming an iconic global brand. Check out our careers page to find out more !

Production & Supply Chain Planner

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