Overview
This role is responsible for leading the weekly Make Planning cycle and creating and releasing the Material Plan for assigned product categories. You will help identify, escalate, and support the resolution of Make supply issues, while monitoring and managing supply exceptions.
You will also be accountable for completing the Monthly Materials Plan with a 24-month rolling horizon for SKUs, using the production plan and supplier feedback as key inputs to ensure material availability. It offers strong exposure to materials planning, cross-regional collaboration, and hands-on learning within a dynamic supply chain environment.
Responsibilities
Main Activities
- Lead the weekly Make Planning cycle and create material plans for assigned product categories.
- Build and maintain the monthly MRP plan based on production requirements and available inventory.
- Share MRP plans with the Bern Make Planning organization according to agreed timelines.
- Identify material supply risks and opportunities, and propose alternative or constrained scenarios to support service levels.
- Escalate potential material risks to the MRP Planning Lead and Procurement, and support issue resolution.
- Validate production and material plans during weekly plan review meetings.
- Assess medium- and long-term material availability using supplier feedback.
- Monitor purchase requisition (PR) conversions and purchase order (PO) releases.
- Track supplier performance and share insights with Procurement.
- Support working capital management by identifying excesses or shortages and proposing corrective actions.
- Create inventory projections for raw and packaging materials, aligned with agreed targets.
- Review weekly business waste and provision snapshots in collaboration with Finance.
- Develop business waste projections to reduce obsolescence and no-consumption risks.
Qualifications
Qualifications
- Fluent in English
- 1-3 years of experience in Materials Planning, or a related supply chain function.
- University degree in Engineering.
- Basic to intermediate knowledge of material planning and production planning concepts.
- Hands-on experience using ERP systems; SAP experience is required.
- Intermediate Excel (pivot charts, pivot tables, formulas, data cleansing)
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Good collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work with multicultural teams across regions.
This role is ideal for someone who wants to build a solid foundation in materials planning while being part of an evolving and collaborative supply chain organization.
