# Market evidence report — footwear-production-manager

Source: **10 real job ads** (JSearch API, countries: us 10), extracted into the MSSQL evidence store; as of 2026-07-12.
This report contains extracted, aggregated facts only — no ad text is
reproduced (copyright / platform terms).

## Seniority distribution

| Seniority | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|
| mid | 7 | 70 % |
| lead | 2 | 20 % |
| senior | 1 | 10 % |

## Tools — full market ranking

| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Microsoft Excel | 5 | 50 % |
| 2 | ERP systems | 3 | 30 % |
| 3 | SAP | 3 | 30 % |

## Hard skills — full market ranking

| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | production planning | 6 | 60 % |
| 2 | inventory management | 3 | 30 % |
| 3 | inventory optimization | 3 | 30 % |
| 4 | master scheduling | 3 | 30 % |

## Methods — full market ranking

| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|

## Responsibilities — full market ranking

| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|

## Regional breakdown

> **Corpus note:** 10 relevant ads in total — below the 100-ad target for a fully reliable ranking. Percentages above should be read as indicative.

### US (us)

**Insufficient evidence** — 10 ads (minimum for a regional ranking: 30). No ranking is reported for this region.

### UK (gb)

**Insufficient evidence** — 0 ads (minimum for a regional ranking: 30). No ranking is reported for this region.

### EU/DACH (de, at, ch, nl)

**Insufficient evidence** — 0 ads (minimum for a regional ranking: 30). No ranking is reported for this region.


## Job title variants in the market

| Title | Ads |
|---|---|
| Production Planning Manager | 2 |
| Footwear Production Manager - On-Time Delivery | 1 |
| Global Production Planning Manager: Scheduling & Optimization | 1 |
| Planning / Scheduling Manager | 1 |
| Production Planning Manager Lead Scheduling & Ops | 1 |
| Senior Production Manager (footwear) | 1 |
| Senior Production Planning | 1 |
| Senior Production Planning & Scheduling Lead | 1 |
| Strategic Production Planning Manager | 1 |

Methodology: entities extracted per ad ({hard_skills, tools, methods, responsibilities, seniority}), normalized, counted as DISTINCT ads per entity; report threshold ≥ 3 ads. Headline sections in skills.md/tools.md use the stricter ≥ 20 % threshold.