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POSITION SUMMARY

Plans industrial capacities for semi-finished goods (SFG) and finished goods (FG) and/or procures raw material (RM) and components in order to meet Customer Service Requirements, planned inventory levels and scrap targets.

PRIMARY DUTIES

• Understands current demands and updates relevant items and planning parameters within SAP/DDMRP (and other IS if applicable).
• Determines all manufacturing capacities (production bottlenecks, QC, critical suppliers…), identifies, addresses and communicates gaps within the Supply & Operations Planning process.
• Determines and shares monthly and weekly production schedules, issues procurement orders and effectively liaises with suppliers to ensure conformance to plan.
• Maintains current knowledge of business practices. Adopts and shares planning best practices
• Follows up manufacturing daily activities and anticipates Customer back orders; identifies and addresses gaps to plan and reschedules accordingly.
• Analyzes commercial and non-commercial demand for RM and/or SFG and FG, on firm and planned horizons, including products during their phase IN and phase OUT stages.

KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE & SKILLS

• Requires strong computer skills including proficiency in Microsoft Office Package; proficiency in SAP (Supply and Manufacturing) is strongly desired. DDMRP experience preferred.
• Bachelor's Degree required, Masters Degree preferred with 3 years of relative work experience analyzing, planning, and communicating manufacturing capacities and production schedules.
• 8+ years of relative work experience analyzing, planning, and communicating manufacturing capacities and productions schedules will be accepted in lieu of education.

WORKING CONDITIONS

Domestic travel requires <5 % of time

Typical office setting

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