Materials Planning Manager

Overall Purpose of the Role

• To ensure that the supply of materials meet the production schedule and minimum stock levels to ensure operational and production continuity.
• Deliver efficient, effective and flexible solutions to meet production requirements.
• Maintains strong relationships both internally and externally to ensure supply of materials meets requirements.
• Decisions and results have an impact on the function and their success. Performance affects the function’s image.
• Job holders in this role may take responsibility for ensuring materials are available for a complete section or for a more technically complex aspect of the production process.
• May hold people and budgetary responsibilities

General and Task Management

• Schedule and control the supply of materials/components to meet production requirements and minimum stock levels
• Plan, develop, implement and evaluate processes for material delivery from supplier to point of fit
• Assess volume requirements against planning assumptions
• Day-to-day order management and management of deliveries
• Understand and manage risks to minimise impact on production schedule
• Take follow up actions in relation to material shortages that affect production
• Actively contribute to the development and support of material planning processes and benchmark against best practice and review ways to make continuous improvements
• Implement all processes to agreed standards and targets and support continuous improvement initiatives, identify ingareas of improvement
• Ensure any Material Requirements Planning system (MRP) or IT system that is in place is accurate and up to date and resolve any issues as required
• Monitor the integrity of Bill of Materials (BOM) and manage inventory accuracy
• Monitor and control inventory levels against agreed target levels
• Minimise obsolete stock and ensure business is left with minimum liability
• Support inventory checks to validate inventory accuracy
• Create regular statistical reports and analysis and update others in the organisation

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
• Work with cross functional teams to deliver effective solutions
• Create and issue forecasts to suppliers
• Generate and communicate supplier material delivery schedules to ensure they reflect requirements and meet demands
• Develop and maintain good relationships with suppliers and ensure demand for materials is met and deliveries made on time
• Design, develop and implement processes and work with suppliers on continuous improvement initiatives
• Support assessment and sourcing of suppliers in conjunction with members of the purchasing team
• Support supplier meetings and negotiations to ensure demand for materials is met
• Resolve supplier concerns and evaluate supplier performance in conjunction with members of the purchasing team

Self Management

• Adhere to any health, safety and environmental policies and procedures to ensure the safety and wellbeing of self, staff and visitors
• Embraces personal challenge
• Confident, rounded thinking
• Is self aware
• Is resilient, assertive, optimistic and open to change
• Engages interest and participation of others with a collaborative approach
• Actively Committed to team development
• Assertive and self-motivated and able to work under pressure