Planning and Fulfillment Manager

The Opportunity

Manages or performs work associated with the procurement and supply and logistics of manufacturing materials including: Materials Requirements Planning. Materials Procurement/Purchasing. Materials Inventory Planning & Control. Materials Warehousing, Distribution & Transportation A Specialist Professional (P4) is a recognized subject matter expert in job area typically obtained through advanced education and work experience.

How you’ll make an impact

• Managing large projects or processes with limited oversight from manager. Coaching, reviewing and delegating work to lower level professionals. Problems faced are difficult and often complex.
• To lead a team of planners and buyers to fulfill the requirements of internal and external customers and ensure incoming quality of the material.
• Liaisoning between internal and external stakeholders.
• Leverage best-practices with scheduling materials planning to keep RM inventory within control and align business processes for maximum factory efficiency.
• Development of suppliers for more cost effectiveness.
• Commercial finalization of service contracts to execute internal projects on time.
• Inventory performance analyses and control withing given target
• Manage obsolete inventory withing target
• Capacity Planning and master scheduling of jobs
• Co-ordinating SCM, Procurement, OH and Production to ensure that projects move as per contractual commitments of customer.
• Responsible to ensure compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.
• Living Hitachi Energy’s core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business

Your background

• A Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Mechanical engineering or Diploma Electrical/Mechanical engineering
• Around 15 to 20 years relevant experience in project management / Order management
• Excellent communications / analytical and problem-solving skill with ability to manage multiple tasks
• SAP and MS Office knowledge is required.
• Proficiency in both spoken & written English language is required