Planner

• Lead annual, quarterly, and multi-year planning processes for Buick and GMC Global Marketing
• Translate brand, portfolio, product lifecycle, customer, market, and commercial priorities into integrated marketing plans
• Connect global priorities with regional and market-level plans while allowing local adaptation
• Maintain business-plan milestones, owners, dependencies, risks, and decision points
• Coordinate planning inputs across marketing, sales, finance, HR, agency, and regional teams
• Evaluate trade-offs across brands, markets, nameplates, audiences, channels, and strategic initiatives
• Build business cases and recommendations connecting resources to brand, customer, demand, retail, and profitability outcomes
• Monitor plan-versus-actual performance and recommend reallocations or corrective actions
• Partner with Finance and Human Resources on investment, budget, headcount, agency, and capability scenarios
• Establish and maintain an integrated Buick and GMC marketing performance scorecard
• Lead monthly, quarterly, and executive performance reviews
• Convert complex quantitative and qualitative information into decision-ready narratives
• Design and improve operating rhythms for leadership meetings, business reviews, planning forums, and strategic initiative reviews
• Clarify decision rights, governance, handoffs, escalation paths, and accountability
• Lead or coordinate high-priority cross-functional initiatives sponsored by Buick and GMC leadership
• Manage complex workstreams involving multiple functions, agencies, markets, and competing priorities
• Establish common planning principles, tools, and performance language across markets
• Partner with regional leaders and facilitate adoption of scalable best practices
• Serve as a trusted advisor and thought partner to the CMO and senior marketing leadership
• Prepare executive presentations, business reviews, decision memos, talking points, and leadership updates
• Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, automate, and improve marketing planning and reporting
• Strengthen organizational planning capabilities through frameworks, coaching, and improved strategic practices

Business Planner

• Develop and execute Other Than Skilled employee movement strategies aligned with business requirements, workforce needs, and the GM-UAW National Agreement
• Manage backfill and movement processes, including postings, selections, recalls, transfers, relocation payments, and tracking
• Support area-hire, extended-area-hire, recall, and other employee-placement activities
• Analyze workforce trends, staffing data, and placement activity to identify risks, opportunities, and leadership recommendations
• Develop and improve employee-movement and staffing-optimization strategies, processes, and standard work
• Support the 2028 Employee Placement Subcommittee and applicable National bargaining activities; participate in National bargaining
• Build relationships with Union partners, Manufacturing Leadership, HR, Operations, and Corporate Labor Relations stakeholders
• Lead the Special Attrition Plan from concept through completion, including strategy, process design, implementation, and administration
• Coordinate SAP execution with Benefits, Finance, Legal, Payroll, HR, Labor Relations, Manufacturing Excellence, and plant stakeholders
• Develop process materials, guidance, and communications
• Create and manage SAP tracking systems, status reporting, and leadership updates
• Analyze SAP data and recommend actions related to eligibility, execution, administration, and workforce impacts
• Provide wage-administration support, review workforce data, resolve discrepancies, and communicate wage impacts
• Maintain records, controls, and reporting for consistent wage administration
• Become proficient in EPS and support its transition to Workday
• Analyze and correct data in Workday
• Use Microsoft Excel and business systems to analyze and communicate workforce information
• Identify and implement continuous-improvement opportunities

Employee Placement Planner

• Act as liaison between the direct fulfillment program manager, demand planners, and the fulfillment site
• Ensure demand planning commitments meet agreed product lead times
• Resolve material delays within agreed timelines
• Manage and report lead times for customer purchase orders
• Expedite purchase orders as needed
• Ensure the recommit process is followed
• Review backlog reports and coordinate escalations with suppliers
• Review supplier build and ship plans against purchase order commit dates
• Identify, document, and report potential on-time shipment issues weekly
• Manually schedule orders outside the product’s scheduled lead time and identify causes
• Monitor purchase order shipments and manage corrective actions when lead-time commitments are missed

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