Supply Chain Planner - Senior

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.

Knowledge/Skills:

• 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)

Enterprise Skills:

• Learning attitude

• Prioritization & Working under pressure (Must have)

• Good English Communication skills (Both speaking and writing)

Experience:

• 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)