Central Material planner

Your Role

As a Central Material Planner, your main focus is to balance, secure and assure material availability to the Central Warehouse. You are the first point of contact for the Operational Buyer and Project Material Planner.

Your tasks and responsibilities

Central Material Planners, form a key part of the Supply Chain of Vanderlande. Their job is to anticipate and maintain central warehouse stock levels to ensure the business runs smoothly. As a Central Material Planner, you manage the short-term Materials Availability. You maintain the supply integrity of the Central Warehouse(s). You make sure that the Ordering department and Project Material Planners deliver and execute according to existing agreements. You inform and manage your stakeholders like the Ordering department and Project Material Planning.

Your responsibilities and activities will be:

• Validates demand and create orders to the Ordering department
• Validates DRP messages and acts accordingly towards stakeholders
• Maintains Supply and Demand for (set of) a category on central warehouses
• First point of contact for Operational Buyers and Project Material Planners
• Drive planning process, methodology and tooling improvements

Your profile

For this position, we require:

• Bachelors degree in mechanical engineering, preferred MBA in Supply Chain, and Certified planner
• Working experience (min. 4 years) in preferably a high-tech environment
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• Supply Chain and Planning experience are a plus
• JDE experience is a Plus
• Drive to win, result and goal oriented with a hands-on mentality
• In-depth knowledge, and hands on experience on outlook management, advance Excel and PowerPoint

You should apply when you are:

• An excellent communicator in English
• An expert in balancing stakeholders
• Able to collaborate easily with stakeholders
• A strong planner and organizer
• Result oriented and stress-resistant
• Self-confident and independent