Senior Material Planning Leader (Controlling)
You will deal with the replenishment of Base Material (paper, film, PE, foil) or Additional Materials categories and will belong to a virtual Planning Hub.
You will be reporting to the Head of Material & Production Planning and work closely with other material planners, cluster capacity planners and suppliers, in an aim to get more control on inventories and drive better agenda with suppliers.
Tasks and Responsibilities
- Be owner of Material Master Data in the CFs and reporting accuracy
- Prepare in-depth reports and analysis, collect, monitor and study business data to support cost control in the Cluster Material replenishment flow
- Support meetings with suppliers by providing report, analysis and data
- Identify improvement opportunities in the materials flow and make improvement recommendations
- Drive Material Master Data optimization and alignment in the CFs to support accurate replenishment process through APO and optimal stock levels
- Create data collection guidelines for internal use
- Generate easy-to-use reports based on collected data and make suggestions to increase operational effectiveness
Key requirements
- Analytical work experience - ideally in Controlling or similar data driven role
- Academic degree or equivalent experience
- Solid knowledge in material planning process and tools, logistic flow
- Communication skills in English
- Confident user of various tools to support in depth analysis and reporting
- Strong user of MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook), WebEx, Microsoft Teams to enable remote working
- Ability to work autonomously, drive continuous improvement, challenge current practices and processes
- Experience working with MRP (Material Requirement Planning) tool or similar is an advantage
Attributes
- Strong Analytical mindset and a keen interest to business operations
- Hands on data-mining knowledge
- Ability to develop easy-to-use reports (PBI)
- Pro-active approach
- Good communication skill with the ability to build strong relationships across all functions within all seniority levels
- Strong problem-solving skills with a can-do attitude
- Good understanding of WCM key principles
