Overview
Reporting into cross category Cluster Head, the Material Requirements Planning lead is responsible for the cluster MRP planning activities in GCC for a particular category, ensuring the ongoing availability of materials to support the production plans and hence satisfy the market demand. Responsible for MRP planners, and is the Point of escalation in Global Business Service.
This role is the main interface between the GCC Planning Hub and the Market and GCC Supply Planning for materials Planning collaborating with the operations teams and market planners to ensure market plans are adopted and service levels and working capital targets are met.
Responsibilities
- Lead the Material Planning team for a specific category for the cluster
- Accountable for the weekly/daily material plans and issuing POs (purchase orders) to materials suppliers
- Front end the discussion with Factory Supply planners for in scope materials
- Daily collaboration with CCC Supply Planning to match materials to production plans
- Accountable for sharing the 16 weeks plan to Central Material planning team(Snacks) and with suppliers for beverages
- Coordinate material PIPO with Innovation coordinator ensuring on time delivery of new launches with minimum possible obsoletes
- Highlight any material risk that might cause manufacturing interruption to Supply Planning and RemainCo teams
- Provide insights through various management reports
- Leads daily/weekly collaboration with suppliers to ensure on time delivery of materials
- End to End inventory analytics (ex-Business wastage, excess inventory) including target of reducing inventory
- Deliver all material planning KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) and RCA (Root Cause Analysis) of issues
- Manager suppliers KPIs and leads the improvement and/or escalation of any declined performance
- Analyse the reason for plan failures and work with internal team to fix the issues
- Bring best practice of market to the delivery
- Manage the group of MRP team members (6– 9 MRP planners & innovation coordinators, MDMs)
- Responsible for adopting the current systems and leads the run to standard agenda and compliance targets for Material Planning area
- Developing tools with the help of IT team
- Apply RPA (Robotic Process Automation) in the existing delivery
Qualifications
- Engineering Education
- Experience – 6 to 8 years in associated function
- Experienced in Supply Chain Planning (demand, supply planning and/or material plannings)
- Proven management skills with the ability to optimise team performance and development (6 – 9 direct reports) at L6 and L7
- High level of knowledge & understanding of the E2E planning systems & processes and experience with any ERP system (preferred)
- Strong collaboration skills and an ability to work with other functions / departments to address critical challenges as a result of market change or changes in technical, manufacturing or End to end planning processes.
- Strong analytical skills with a keen eye for detail, able to interrogate data and produce detailed outputs.
- Proficiency in Excel
Abilities:
- Team lead experience
- Team oriented and collaborative
- Problem solving know-how
- Analytic skills
- Excellent communication and relation building skills
- Ability to work independently in a multi-task environment
- Application of Supply chain principles with extensive knowledge in MRP & Production planning
- Skills in query/reporting tools , spreadsheet applications and presentations
