Job Family: Supply Chain

     Job Title: Production Planner

Reporting: Materials Manager

Functional objectives:

1. Ensure production on time and at the lowest possible cost.

2. Maximize resources and production.

3. Demand management and production control.

4. Manage inventory at the optimal level.

Is responsible for:

-Monitor current production levels and provide detailed plans, ensuring the flow of raw materials and low levels of obsolescence for work on the production floor in accordance with demand and quality standards.

-Analyze the proposed production plan with buyers, the plant manager, and the production manager.

-Coordinate the production workflow.

-Plan and prioritize operations to ensure maximum throughput and minimum delays.

-Ensure correct demand in SAP so that the system determines the required quantity of raw materials.

-Support Customer Service priorities, ensuring perfect order delivery.

-Control and maintain SKUs in the system.

-Manage sales orders.

-Create a production schedule in SAP.

-Demand planning.

-Manage inventory levels.

-Generate a report in SAP of non-moving and/or slow-moving part numbers.

-Maintain updated records in SAP: inventories, production orders, purchase orders, exception messages, and daily invoicing.

 -Generate, control, and manage forecasts, demands, sales orders, and production orders.

-Maintain backlog monitoring at optimal levels.

-Review demand planning with Customer Service.

-Present compliance with the production schedule and daily production plan.

-Maximize the level of service to external customers.

-Coordinate work teams to achieve objectives.

-Understand the quality policy and quality objectives.

-Perform duties and responsibilities in accordance with the documented quality system.

-Recommend and implement improvements to activities and processes within the quality system.

*The functions listed above are illustrative, but not limiting.

Education and professional knowledge:

-Bachelor's degree in Logistics, Industrial Engineering, or related field.

-3 years of work experience in a similar position, experience with electrical components is desirable.

Functional, technical and individual competences required:

-Supply chain process proficiency.

-SAP proficiency.

-Inventory management.

-MS Office proficiency.

-Client portal management.

-Tolerance for frustration and ambiguity.

-Advanced English.

-Materials planning.

-Production planning.

-Numerical analysis skills.

-Personnel management skills.

-Effective communication, leadership, and good interpersonal skills for teamwork.

-Decision-making for optimal problem resolution.

-Process innovation.

- Ethics.

-Design and management of efficient and sustainable processes.

-Corporate environmental and social responsibility.

It would be a distinct advantage if the Job holder has previous experience in the following areas:

-Knowledge of customer service.

-Knowledge of PowerBI.

-Experience in the automotive industry.

-Experience with IATF 16949 processes.