Role Summary
The Material Planning & Logistics Manager position supervises and coordinates team members in the departments responsible for planning and procurement of materials in production, receiving, storing, and preparing product for shipment.
Main Tasks
* Disciplinary and functional lead, including coordination of activities in the teams;
* Lead the location specific logistics, materials, and production planning initiatives;
* Use Lean manufacturing methodologies in the value chain to drive continuous improvement;
* Work with sales, Inventory, Operations, Planning lead to drive inventory reduction projects;
* Partner with Manufacturing to ensure coordination of other functions such as production planning, raw and finisched goods inventory management;
* Coach team resolving complex problems concerning supply chain issuess;
* Maintain and create metrics, reports, process documentation with the overall objective to proactively highlight potential problems and drive improvements from a financial and operational aspect;
* Report out monthly on achievement of goals and objectives - create and implement corrective actions for negative performance;
* All accountabilities of MP&L processes profiles.
Skills
* Process Improvement
* Supply Chain Planning
* Data Analysis
* Demand Planning
* Inventory Control Systems
* Shipping & Receiving
* SAP Utilization
Experience
* Bachelor's degree Required;
* 5+ years of relevant work experience: manufacturing industry, structured;
* Experience in leading of team.
Technical/Functional Competencies
* Material Planning and Logistic Process Knowledge (incl. SAP process and transactional-interfacce, process mapping);
* Operational Knowledge (incl. SAP transactional);
* Understanding for relevant Governance in Material Planning and Logistics;
* Lean Principles, like PULL, value stream development, kanban.
* MS Office skills;
* Italian, English or German fluently;
* Sedapta;
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