Materials Planner, Lead

• Responsible for performing a wide variety of complex planning activities necessary to achieve production goals.
• Determines the quality and order date of the materials needed to meet production requirements.
• Maintains adequate inventory levels using MRP and reorder point planning.
• Manages the purchasing cycle, including converting requests into purchase orders, tracking purchase orders, receiving materials, and reconciling invoices.
• Develops and maintains relationships with suppliers, identifies and resolves supply issues, expedites critical orders, resolves invoice discrepancies, including pricing, units of measure, and receiving discrepancies.
• Validates and complies with monthly inventory days, supply by product code, and facilitates the reduction of excess inventory.
• Responsible for key network metrics and shelf filling, rates, supply days, and inventory versus plan.
• Coordinates with the procurement, demand planning, implementation planning, and master materials departments in planning executable inventory levels.
• Leads and assists lower-level planners.

• Requires a bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Understands the product life cycle and underlying business planning requirements.
• Understands how role impacts the department and the organization and make system configuration recommendations to improve processes based on this understanding.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Good organization skills.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Solid Customer Relations skills.
• Inventory analysis proficiency.
• Strong analytical, mathematical and problem-solving skills.
• Proficient in standard Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access).
• Expert with SAP or other advanced planning, system Technology.
• Knowledge of Supply Chain Management, purchasing inventory planning.

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