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We are looking for a Material Planner to join our Global Business Services team
Main Duties:
• Ensure continuous supply of required and materials and communicate any supply problems which may pose a risk or impact on business operations. • Lead purchasing activities with manufacturing, planning, sourcing and engineering departments to solve complicated material supply issues. • Take ownership for PO dates in ERP and maintain system accuracy. • Partner with Materials Program Managers, Project Managers, and quality for un-interrupted delivery of parts for production. • Review open order messages weekly and review with suppliers for accuracy. • Ensure availability of shipping reports from key suppliers, request air freight when necessary, and monitor the inbound tracking of critical supply. • Proactively manage suppliers where delivery dates are at risk by escalating within the supplier organization to identify and evaluate opportunities to improve deliveries. • Provide various reports and metrics to monitor demand / supply / performance and own the supplier OTD metric. • Drive problem analysis and corrective action from scorecard and metrics reporting. Initiate improvement activities to streamline business processes for procurement function and drive the documentation and implementation of enhanced business processes. • Contact suppliers to resolve price, quality, delivery, or invoice issues. • Co-ordinate and transact RTVs as required, returns to vendor for credit or repair. • Ensure compliance to company guidelines, purchasing policies and procedures. • Interpret internal / external business challenges and recommend best practices to improve products, processes or services. • Analyze and interpret KPIs to identify areas for improvement and action plans.
Skills Requirement:
• 3-5 years of experience in procurement / SCM in a manufacturing environment. • Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline - business, commercial, manufacturing, or engineering degree. • Minimum two years of experience in SAP • Proficient MS Excel skills. Well versed other MS Office products (Word, PP & Outlook). • Experience in an engineer-to-order manufacturing environment. • Strong negotiating skills.