Supply Chain Planner

JOB SUMMARY

This individual is responsible in the participation in the planning of all materials required by all of Belimo’s North American manufacturing facilities. This individual bears full responsibility for agreed upon goals and objectives set with the Team Leader, Planning Manager, Vice President of Production, and the Head of Global Planning & Master Data Management.

COMPANY'S MISSION AND VALUES

REPORTING STRUCTURE

This individual is part of the Belimo Americas Planning team and reports to the Planning and MDM Team Leader, Americas.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop and maintain 18 month rolling plan for America’s manufacturing facilities based on statistics and enriched with all relevant input from Sales, Product Management and Supply Chain.
• Partner with Product Management and Sales to understand changes in demand, collaborate on demand opportunities, determine demand forecast and manage supply plan with agility to support.
• Participates in the creation and maintenance of planning for all materials used in all plants.
• Identify potential supply risks, alert any supply-demand misalignments, coordinate with the appropriate stakeholders to propose solutions and drive closure.
• Heavy product life cycle management skills, product specific inventory strategies, develop robust plans to enable new product launch and product phase-out ensuring continuity of supply minimizing excess stock and stock out.
• Use data-guided analytical rigor to identify trends, patterns, issues that lead to sub-optimal output, recommend process improvement opportunities and action plans.
• Drive sustainable improvement in planning accuracy, service level and related KPI’s through root-cause analysis by leveraging planning tool, cross-functional collaboration and change management skills.
• Develop working relationships with planners globally and build a “virtual” team through regular work sessions and exchanges.
• Knowledgeable in the overall functionality of the PP module so that manufacturing operations can proceed without interruption.
• Knowledgeable in evaluating the impact of PP transactions throughout other modules within R/3 system.
• Analyze inventory for slow moving and dead stock, initiating scrap, rework or obsolescence with Belimo departments including Quality, Production and Product Management

REQUIREMENTS

• 7-10+ of experience in demand/supply planning, material planning, or inventory management in a manufacturing environment
• BS Degree or equivalent experience
• Extensive SAP experience
• Proficient in Microsoft Business Software
• Strong analytical and communication skills required
• Self-starter, self motivated and results-oriented with good organizational skills
• Ability to communicate both written and verbal in a professional manner
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills, a continuous improvement mindset
• Highly proactive. Decision making ability
• High attention to detail and follow through
• APICS (CPIM/CSCP) certification preferred