Mercedes-Benz: Building Exceptional Vehicles… and Careers!
The best chapters in Alabama’s automotive success story are yet to come. The Mercedes-Benz automobile of the future will be different; greener, more efficient, safer, and even more fascinating. Only one thing will never change – It will wear a star.
MBUSI is home to the GLE, GLE Coupe, and GLS Sport Utility Vehicles and the   C-Class for the North American market. Our facility is one of the most advanced automotive manufacturing facilities in the world, with over 6 million square feet under one roof. The plant, located in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, is positioned in an area of natural beauty and abundant natural resources.
MBUSI offers an excellent compensation and benefits package including health and life insurance, 401(k) and retirement, on-site child development and wellness facilities. MBUSI is committed to excellence and actively promotes teamwork, safety, quality, and continuous improvement within its ranks. Our Team Members share a common goal to always be the best premium auto manufacturer in North America.
Mercedes-Benz, U.S. International, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants.  Mercedes-Benz U.S. International, Inc. follows all local, state and federal laws in all aspects of business.
 
All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply for any open positions.
 
  Under general supervision, this position manages the medium and long term balance of customer demand and supplier capacity to ensure market requirements are met and to maintain uninterrupted production. Duties and responsibilities Option Code Implementation
Analyze Product Overview documentation changes to establish plausibility and validity dates.
Audit Product Overview and Vehicles to ensure buildability.
Manage changes in market packaging or options codes to insure timely implementation and uninterrupted production.
Coordinate option code timing, analyze code dependencies, technical dependencies, etc. and update systems according to introduction date status.
Option Code / Demand- Capacity Management
Align with Sales and internal departments for option codes requiring capacity restrictions.
Analyze demand and GOP / AP  trends/stability and develop countermeasures to ensure stable production.
Prepare and present code related issues to various levels of Management, understanding the unique problems and timing associated with each restriction topic.
Manage complexity reduction activities as required.
Code capacity planning and monitoring codes on the sales forecast (GOP / AP) horizon, including maintaining restrictions in restriction monitoring system (Vokus).
Lead task force activities around demand-capacity topics in conjunction with material planners and the capacity management groups to prevent interruption to production.
Pre- Series Code Management
Develop pre-Series options code launch packages, as well as Series option code introduction (PEM) strategies.
Analyze market introduction option plans and coordinate supplier’s capacities and sales requirements.
Manage the introduction timing of product overview changes to ensure trial requirements are met.
Sales Forecast analysis
Analyzing the Sales forecast to review changes with every forecast run and comparison of the forecast with the real orders delivered to the plant.
Determining the impact of the changes in the Sales forecast to the plant in terms of material supply.
Leading discussions with MAterial planning and the supplier management groups to determine production impact and coordinating countermeasures.
Demand Generation and Analysis (TBE)
Use the Sales forecast (GOP / AP) and run it against the aligned production program to generate part demand.
Analyze the results and represent Plant Tuscaloosa (W138) in a cross-functional global group to address any topics / issues / escalations and to accept or reject the run based on the analysis.
Serve as a second level escalation for demand related topics and lead discussions and problem solving activities with the material planners and supplier management groups.

Perform other duties as required.