Material Planner

• Extensive Planning and steering of customer orders under the consideration of and compliance with capacities, order times and inventory limitations and delivery performance (monitoring ship-to-request).
• Realize and identify delivery difficulties and initiate measurements to fulfil delivery dates (e.g. replacement purchase, adjusting production and delivery sequence) or differing dates to be aligned with Customer Service.
• Schedule parts/materials for assuring an undisturbed material supply in terms of quantities and delivery dates, in alignment with general and existing specifications
• Guarantee deliveries in terms of quantities and dates also in critical situations.
• Correct and monitor proactively demand, based on data and IT-systems, control delivery schedule, adjust surplus materials and wrong parts.
• Generate and release delivery schedules and align with suppliers (both internal and external); dispose special parts (critical in manufacturing and for customers).
• Initiate measurements of guaranteeing production and customer deliveries in case of shortages and other delivery problems (e.g. delivery shortage, quality issues, force majeure), such as alternative suppliers under the pre-requisite of quality, economics and reliability).
• Order critical parts on time and well ahead.
• Support plans for scrapping and surplus and not needed material.
• Propose solutions to improve Planning KPIs with Supply Chain & Analytics.
• Manage mid-long-term escalations with suppliers to customers.
• Define demand & supply characteristics and propose optimize segmentation and planning strategies.

EDUCATION/KNOWLEDGE:

Degree in Business Administration / Supply Chain Management.
Minimum 3+ years of work experience in a Supplier Planning & Supply Chain

CRITICAL EXPERIENCE:

Strong knowledge in SAP, MS Office, Access, SharePoint.
Excellent oral and written communication skills demonstrated by the ability to communicate across all levels of the organization.
Experience of working in a fast-moving environment.
First class prioritizing skills in a rapidly changing environment with conflicting demands.
A team player with exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.
Excellent knowledge of Microsoft office programs.
Ability to use your own initiative and work effectively under pressure.