Global Supply Planner NA

This Global Supply Planner NA position at Motorola Solutions involves coordinating purchasing activities, managing production workflow across global sites, and monitoring performance to optimize customer satisfaction, revenue, cost, and cash flow. The role requires partnering with external manufacturers to create feasible production schedules and leading supply team meetings. Candidates need strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills, with a focus on ensuring production requirements and timely delivery.

Must Have

• Coordinate purchasing activities with all functional departments.
• Achieve and maintain a technical understanding of commodities purchased.
• Perform cost analysis and volume planning for major commodities.
• Obtain materials, components, equipment and services.
• Develop new supply sources where vendors and suppliers are inadequate.
• Monitor cost, schedule and scope of assigned subcontractors.
• Coordinate production workflow for one or multiple products with different sites.
• Monitor production performance and delivery of finished products.
• Guarantee customer satisfaction of internal stakeholders among the supply process.
• Partner with external manufacturers to determine optimal production schedule.
• Work closely with external manufacturers to guarantee production requirements.
• Create a materials and capacity feasible short term production plan.
• Lead weekly and monthly local supply team meetings.
• Plan and prioritize operations to ensure maximum performance and minimum delay.
• Escalate supply/demand imbalances as appropriate.
• Bachelor’s degree.
• 5 years of relevant Supply Chain experience (purchasing, production planning, suppliers development and negotiation).
• ERP/MRP (Oracle, SAP, etc) experience.
• Strong capabilities with spreadsheets / databases.
• Excellent communication skills in Spanish and English.

Company Overview

At Motorola Solutions, we believe that everything starts with our people. We’re a global close-knit community, united by the relentless pursuit to help keep people safer everywhere. Our critical communications, video security and command center technologies support public safety agencies and enterprises alike, enabling the coordination that’s critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals and safer businesses. Connect with a career that matters, and help us build a safer future.

Department Overview

NA Materials Operations organization is responsible for planning materials and managing inventory for all Land Mobile Radio / Video products with the objective of optimizing customer satisfaction and MSI revenue, cost and cash flow.

Job Description

Coordinates purchasing activities with all functional departments acquiring commodities (goods and services) in a cost effective and timely manner. Achieves and maintains a technical understanding of commodities purchased. Performs cost analysis and volume planning for major commodities. Obtains materials, components, equipment and services. Develops new supply sources where vendors and suppliers are inadequate. Monitors the cost, schedule and scope of assigned subcontractors to assure highest quality at best value.

This position will be responsible for:

• Coordinating production workflow for one or multiple products with different sites around the world.
• Monitoring production performance and the delivery of finished products while work with finance and other internal teams to solve any inconvenience.
• Guarantee customer satisfaction of internal stakeholders among the supply process.
• Partner with external manufacturers to determine optimal production schedule.
• Work closely with the external manufacturers to guarantee the production requirements and create a materials and capacity feasible short term production plan.
• Lead weekly and monthly local supply team meeting to determine and communicate feasible schedule for the next week / month and ensure that all parties are aligned.
• Plan and prioritize operations to ensure maximum performance and minimum delay
• Escalates supply/demand imbalances as appropriate.

Qualifications:

• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Excellent communication skills up, down and across the organization (verbal, written and presentation) in Spanish and English
• Ability to work and make decisions in situations with ambiguity and uncertainty
• Actively supports diversity, equity and inclusion
• Self-motivated
• Experience working with suppliers

This position should work on a hybrid scheme in Reynosa, 3 days in the office 2 days from home.

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Basic Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree
• 5 years of relevant Supply Chain experience (purchasing, production planning, suppliers development and negotiation)
• ERP/MRP (Oracle, SAP, etc) experience
• Strong capabilities with spreadsheets / databases
• High Energy / Engagement

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Travel Requirements

Under 10%

Relocation Provided

None

Position Type

Experienced

Referral Payment Plan

Yes