Central Planning Manager

Planning That Predicts. Delivery That Performs

Step into a global end-to-end Supply Chain role where you shape product availability and transform demand into powerful supply strategies—leading the decisions that connect teams, balance service, cost, and inventory, and keep Hilti’s worldwide value chain performing at its best.
As a Central Planning Manager, you drive the Operations Planning process within our Global S&OP. You ensure optimal product availability, balanced inventory levels, and cost efficient global supply structures. Working closely with Business Units, production plants, and regional planning teams, you translate demand signals into actionable capacity, production, and allocation plans.
This full time position is available immediately. Required travel is up to 10%.

What You'll do

You will own the operations planning process within Hilti’s Global S&OP, ensuring alignment between demand, production, and distribution across a global product portfolio.
Your responsibilities include consolidating demand requirements and translating them into feasible capacity and production plans in close collaboration with production plants and Business Unit stakeholders. You will manage central availability allocation and distribution in line with the tactical planning cycle, balancing service, inventory, and cost targets.
You’ll be accountable for product availability, global inventory performance, COGS, and OPEX development for your portfolio. By conducting root cause analyses, you will identify performance gaps and lead improvement actions to enhance end-to-end supply chain reliability.
Working in an international planning environment, you will partner with Business Units, Global Logistics, process management, regional planning teams, and suppliers to continuously improve service levels and overall supply chain performance.

What You’ll Bring

We are looking for someone with strong analytical capabilities, a passion for Planning, and an international mindset. Essential requirements include:

• Master’s degree (preferably in Supply Chain, Operations, or related field); APICS CPIM/CSCP is a plus.
• 3+ years of experience in Demand or Supply Planning in a global or regional setup, ideally with Central Planning exposure.
• Strong analytical and quantitative mindset with high attention to detail.
• Collaborative team player with structured problem solving skills and the ability to work in fast changing environments.
• Experience with SCM systems (SAP R/3, APO, BI, Blue Yonder/JDA).
• Excellent communication skills; fluent English required, German is a plus

What’s In It for You

We really value our people, and we've worked hard to develop a reward package that reflects this, creating your future to be just how you would want it. Some of our benefits include:

• Connection with a diverse community of over 2,100 colleagues from 70 nationalities in a region where Liechtenstein, Austria, and Switzerland intersect.
• Employee groups actively supporting causes like female empowerment and the LGBTQIA+ community.
• Leisure activities like mountain biking and tennis.
• Opportunities for community engagement both locally and internationally.
• Shared e-bikes, an on-site gym, dining options, learning opportunities, financial guidance, free parking, fuel discounts, workation, sabbatical, home office opportunity, flexible and trust-based working hours, meditation/ relaxation rooms, Hilti tool rental service, massage possibilities, and relocation support.

Why Hilti

Hilti is a global leader in construction innovation, with more than 34,000 team members across 120 countries. Guided by our purpose, Making Construction Better, we’re driven to keep learning, growing, and finding new ways to make a lasting impact. Here, you’ll be empowered to use your strengths, work with a global and inclusive team, and take on meaningful challenges. At Hilti, you’ll have the chance to make your ideas, achievements, and growth real through purpose, passion, and teamwork.
At our global headquarters in Schaan, Nendeln, Buchs, and nearby hubs, we shape Hilti’s digital strategy and enterprise platforms worldwide. Our cross functional teams in product IT, data & analytics, cybersecurity, ERP, and digital customer platforms work side by side with business leaders to design, build, and run solutions at global scale. HQ offers a collaborative environment where architecture decisions, platform reliability, and secure-by-design engineering translate into real impact for our customers and teams.
Learn more about our recruitment process:
https://careers.hilti.group/en/candidate-interview-preparation/
https://careers.hilti.group/en/candidate-interview-preparation/

Commitment to Inclusion

At Hilti, inclusion is a key focus in how we work, lead, and grow together. We are committed to embracing diversity of thought and creating an environment that is inclusive of everyone, everywhere. We continuously strive to ensure every voice is valued and every team member feels empowered to contribute. By building on this foundation, we strengthen our teams, our innovation, and our impact, making construction better together.

For further questions, please feel free to contact Frank Kutschker, Head of Materials Management or Hansa Stein, Talent Acquisition Business Partner at [email protected].
For non-EU/ EFTA citizens: Please state your eligibility status to work in Switzerland/ Liechtenstein and note that if you do not own a valid Swiss/ Liechtenstein work permit, Hilti cannot guarantee your final employment due to authority regulations.