- Location
- Berneck St. Gallen Switzerland
- Employment
- Full-Time
- Seniority
- Mid-Level
- Department
- Supply Chain, Logistics & Inventory
- Posted
- Nov 2, 2026
La Prairie is hiring a full-time Production Planner in Berneck to lead end-to-end operational and tactical production planning, coordinate across production and supply functions, and improve planning quality and processes. The role requires several years of relevant manufacturing experience, strong ERP and Excel skills, and daily on-site presence; benefits include five weeks of annual leave, increasing to six weeks from age 50, and a 40-hour work week.
Role & Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end operational and tactical production planning, including prioritisation, scheduling and alignment with Production.
- Serve as the main point of contact for Production on planning matters, including active participation in shop-floor meetings.
- Create, maintain and manage production orders in the Abacus ERP system.
- Maintain a stable, realistic production plan that accounts for material availability, capacity, quality releases, operational constraints and dependencies.
- Proactively manage schedule deviations, bottlenecks and risks, communicating transparently with relevant stakeholders.
- Ensure planning quality by accurately reviewing and tracking master data, material availability and production-related dependencies.
- Identify and secure critical planning parameters to establish sound, reliable medium-term planning foundations early.
- Work confidently with complex data structures, manual interfaces and cross-system relationships.
- Identify weaknesses, inefficiencies and sources of error in current workflows, and develop sustainable improvements that make processes more robust, transparent and efficient.
- Regularly evaluate, analyse and present relevant production KPIs.
- Introduce and develop suitable KPIs, reports and analytical capabilities to improve operational control.
- Contribute to the development of the production strategy and planning organisation.
Qualifications
- Completed degree in business administration, industrial engineering, supply chain management or a comparable field.
- Several years of relevant experience in production planning at a manufacturing company, ideally in FMCG.
- Strong analytical thinking and an excellent understanding of complex planning relationships.
- Resilience, structure and precision in a dynamic, demanding environment.
- Strong communication and teamwork skills, with pronounced stakeholder and expectation management capabilities.
- High standards for process improvement and willingness to constructively challenge the status quo.
- Strong IT affinity, very good Excel skills and solid ERP experience, ideally with Abacus and/or SAP and Power BI.
- Very good German and good English.
- Willingness to work on-site every day.
Skills
Experience
Several years of relevant experience in production planning at a manufacturing company, ideally in FMCG.
Education
Completed degree in business administration, industrial engineering, supply chain management or a comparable field.
Workplace
This position is based in Berneck, St. Gallen, Switzerland.
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Benefits
Five weeks of annual leave, increasing to six weeks from age 50; 40-hour work week.
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