Supply Chain Planner - Senior

DESCRIPTION

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure internal and external customers' expectations and requirements are met.
• Manage the daily operational processes for a critical segment of the supply chain.
• Eliminate potential supply chain failures as part of the daily planning process.
• Champion preventive practices to eliminate expediting to supply chain leadership as appropriate to prevent problems.
• Lead cross-functional stakeholders to develop and implement short and mid-term tactical improvements.
• Comply with communication plans and processes to ensure stakeholders' needs are met.
• Leverage common processes, tools, and information systems.
• Approve system strategies and advise on changes to planning systems parameters as required.
• Analyze and interpret KPIs to identify areas for improvement and action plans.
• Lead Six Sigma and functional process improvement teams.
• Liaise with functional stakeholders to mitigate mid-term supplier or customer constraints.
• Mentor and coach supply chain planners.
• Ensure common processes are being utilized and internal controls are in place.

• Education: Engineering Degree (Must have)

• Collaborates: Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
• Communicates effectively: Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
• Customer focus: Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.
• Develops talent: Developing people to meet both their career goals and the organization's goals.
• Ensures accountability: Holding self and others accountable to meet commitments.
• Global perspective: Taking a broad view when approaching issues, using a global lens.
• Values differences: Recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization.

• Materials Planning System Utilization: Uses the materials planning system to manage supply and demand plans, taking long-term corrective action on exception messages and other alerts based on root cause analysis.
• Part Change Control Management: Evaluates and implements engineering change requests to meet customer delivery requirements while minimizing excess and obsolete inventory.
• Plan for Every Part (PFEP): Uses PFEP in planning, designing, and management of systems and processes within a facility to ensure delivery of the right part at the right time in the right quantity to the right place.
• Analysis and Troubleshooting: Extracts, transforms, models, interprets, and presents planning data to mine useful information, troubleshoot, suggest conclusions, and support value-creating decision-making.
• Master Supply Scheduling: Establishes and maintains a valid Master Production Schedule for a family of products, meeting customer expectations and requirements while maximizing operational efficiency.
• Material Planning: Uses advanced tools to make decisions related to parts availability, inventory optimization, and root cause analysis.
• Materials KPI Management: Operates in relation to recent or historical outputs compared to organizational expectations to determine next steps for improvement.
• Material Planning / Supplier Procurement (Must have):
• Manages all aspects of the material plan based on requirements across the regional/global network.
• Manages accuracy of aggregate supplier schedules onto suppliers.
• Actively manage Supplier performance, identifying any aspect of suboptimal performance, driving accountability for improvement actions.
• Know-how of Material Availability/Shortage issues (Must have):
• Actively manage Supplier commitment.
• Ensure material is made available through LT into the region.
• Managing exceptions
• Execute RCA on KPI misses and ensure these are converted into SMART plans (Must have)
• Worked on Inventory Reduction (Preferred)
• Knows use of Safety stocks (Preferred)
• Allocation Planning/Constraint planning (Nice to have)
• System use (Oracle/SAP) (Nice to have)

• Learning attitude
• Prioritization & Working under pressure (Must have)
• Good English Communication skills (Both speaking and writing)

• 8-12 years in Material Planning / Procurement / Production planning (Must have)
• Handling Critical Suppliers and allocation of 30-40 suppliers / 1000+ parts
• Experience in Manufacturing Plant material planning (Nice to have)