Senior Production Planning Specialist - MOSD Leader

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This position reports to

Planning & Fulfillment Manager

Your role and responsibilities

The Planning & Fulfillment department aims to support profitable growth by ensuring accurate planning of our demand and our operations, optimizing inventory and resource management, and perfect execution of customer orders. This mission is achieved by balancing and improving five metrics: on-time customer delivery, inventory, lead time, forecast accuracy and resource optimization. As Production Planning Leader - System Drives Division, you will be responsible for coordinating a team of planners for System Drives in close collaboration with the Operations Team. Your role and responsibilities: • Coordinate the work of the team, delegate tasks and supervise their implementation. • Supporting the production operations manager in making resource decisions based on production load forecasts, technical capabilities and risk analysis. • Collaborate with the department manager on the topic of employee development and motivation. Participate in the resource planning process, participate in recruitment and training of new employees. • Close control and reporting of order execution for the System Drives area. • Collaborate with other areas, especially production, purchasing and customer service. • Active participation in planning development tools/processes in accordance with the Lean approach. • Manage projects in the System Drives production planning area and implement modern methods and tools related to production planning and order processing management. • WIP inventory optimization for System Drives.

Qualifications for the role

• Ability to manage own and team time, set priorities.
• Goal-oriented, highly developed analytical skills, analyzing resource requirements and supporting various scenarios.
• Higher technical education, at least 4-5 years of experience in production planning, experience in team management is welcome.
• Good knowledge of SAP (PP, MM, SD module), knowledge of planning strategies (MTO, MTS, ATO).
• Experience in implementing Lean philosophy in the area of production planning, advanced knowledge of MS Excel, knowledge of tools welcome: MS Access, VBA.
• Very good knowledge of English (spoken and written).
• Ability to work under time pressure and perform tasks in a timely and accurate manner.
• Communicativeness and ability to work in a team.

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