Materials Planner

1 Month ago • 2 Years +

Job Summary

Job Description

The Materials Planner ensures the supply of materials meets the production schedule and minimum stock levels. This role involves maintaining strong internal and external relationships to guarantee material supply meets requirements and working in a fast-paced environment. Key responsibilities include managing material stock levels, ensuring material availability for production, timely purchase orders, forecasting inbound costs, and identifying cost-saving opportunities. The planner monitors top-running items, maintains system models using business intelligence and forecast information, and collaborates with various departments to achieve results.

Must have:

Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain, or Business
Fluent in Spanish and English
Proficient in MS Office and Oracle
2+ years experience in manufacturing processes and forecasting

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Job Details

Thales people architect identity management and data protection solutions at the heart of digital security. Business and governments rely on us to bring trust to the billons of digital interactions they have with people. Our technologies and services help banks exchange funds, people cross borders, energy become smarter and much more. More than 30,000 organizations already rely on us to verify the identities of people and things, grant access to digital services, analyze vast quantities of information and encrypt data to make the connected world more secure.

Summary Position:

Ensure that the supply of materials meet the production schedule and minimum stock levels to ensure operational and production continuity. Able to deliver efficient, effective and flexible solutions to meet production requirements. Maintains strong relationships both internally and externally to ensure supply of materials meets requirements.

Ability to work in a fast paced, challenging & always changing environment is essential, supporting the Planning, Production & Logistics teams to ensure this function can continuously improve, add value to the organization and work alongside the different disciplines within the company to achieve results.

The role will monitor and track top running items to allow forecasting ensuring system models are maintained using business intelligence and forecast information gathered from Order Balancing, Production balancing Report and other sources from Customer Service, Sales Op and supplier data

Main Responsibilities:

Assure the stock of all materials are at defined levels (white cards & modules & components, stationery and consumables).

Assure production has required materials to meet customers’ needs.

Ensure the availability of raw materials and consumables when they required by the orders.

On time PO's, follow up on critical Suppliers.

Plan and forecast inbound costs for imported materials.

Achieve savings to reduce order expenses, propose and supervise improvements related to the supply and control of material inventory and reduce inbound costs

Minimum Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain, or Business

Spanish, Fluent English

MS Office, Oracle

+ 2 Years Manufacturing processes, time management, forecasting knowledge.

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