The Materials Planning Supervisor is responsible to ensure that strategic material planning processes are in place to enable operational and production continuity. He/she takes a coordinating lead, working closely with internal and external parties to ensure supply of materials is in place to satisfy production requirements. Also, he/she can deliver efficient, effective and flexible solutions to meet production requirements.

Your tasks:

1) General & Task-Management:

• Ensure that material scheduling strategy and processes are in place and work effectively to ensure material supply meets production requirements with minimum stock levels, whilst optimizing costs
• Take ownership of material planning issues that arise, including over or under delivery and take any follow up actions especially in the event of material shortages that affect production
• Assess volume requirements against planning assumptions
• Manage inventory risk and ensure that contingency plans are in place
• Seek and recommend solutions to overcome issues arising in order to meet production requirements and address operational risks
• Implement flexible solutions to aid business efficiency, drive process improvements and add value
• Support continuous improvement initiatives
• Ensure that professional and consistent materials planning processes are applied across the business
• Ensure that any Material Requirements Planning system (MRP) or IT system in place is effective and that data is accurate and up to date and resolve any issues as required
• Investigate and implement system enhancement initiatives
• Ensure the integrity of Bill of Materials (BOM) and inventory accuracy at all times and manage and control inventory levels and movements
• Take overall responsibility for obsolete parts process and ensure business is left with minimum liability and minimal waste
• Ensure strategic and operational information, reports and metrics are available to share with others in the business as and when required
• Report on achievement of targets and identify any corrective action

2) People-Management:

• Manage, coach and develop a high performing team that meets agreed objectives, and which delivers best practice results, added value and continuous improvements
• Monitor and ensure that staff under supervision maintain accurate material schedules to get the right materials on site at the right time
• Takes ownership for team cohesion, proactively contribute to creating a good team atmosphere
• Collaborative approach to others
• Self-starter and able to motivate others Support, encourage and develop team
• Anticipates and overcomes obstacles

3) Relationship Management:

• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to forecast, plan and facilitate on-time materials to the production line as and when required avoiding disruption to production
• Take lead on internal and external relationships to ensure consistent, timely and effective communication regarding material availability
• Work with cross functional teams to deliver effective solutions
• Liaise with stakeholders on product change requests and review and communicate the impact on material planning and schedules
• Support new business initiatives and projects and contribute to review meetings and change process. Ensure effective material planning implementation takes place relating to the changes
• Contribute to the assessment of suppliers in conjunction with members of the purchasing team
• Resolve supplier concerns and evaluate supplier performance in conjunction with members of the purchasing team
• Work closely with the purchasing team to ensure purchasing strategies are maximized

Your qualifications, experience & skills:

• Degree-level and/or equivalent work-experience.
• 5+ years’ relevant experiences including 3 years’ at supervisory level
• Working-knowledge of ERP/ MRP systems, INFOR preferred.
• Expert applied knowledge of forecasting, MRP, transportation, supply-chain, bills of material, inventory-management and warehouse disciplines
• Proven management skills with the ability to optimize team performance and development
• Strong interpersonal, negotiation and influencing skills
• Results orientated and organized with the ability to plan and deliver against deadlines
• Proven analytical, planning and problem-solving skills
• Project management skills
• Excellent attention to detail skills
• Flexible and works well under pressure
• Work location: Tsing Yi