Material Planning & Logistics Manager

Role Summary

The Material Planning & Logistics Manager position supervises and coordinates team members in the departments responsible for planning and procurement of materials in production, receiving, storing, and preparing product for shipment. 

Main Tasks

• Disciplinary and functional lead, including coordination of activities in the teams;
• Lead the location specific logistics, materials, and production planning initiatives;
• Use Lean manufacturing methodologies in the value chain to drive continuous improvement;
• Work with sales, Inventory, Operations, Planning lead to drive inventory reduction projects;
• Partner with Manufacturing to ensure coordination of other functions such as production planning, raw and finisched goods inventory management;
• Coach team resolving complex problems concerning supply chain issuess;
• Maintain and create metrics, reports, process documentation with the overall objective to proactively highlight potential problems and drive improvements from a financial and operational aspect;
• Report out monthly on achievement of goals and objectives - create and implement corrective actions for negative performance;
• All accountabilities of MP&L processes profiles. 

Skills

Experience

• Bachelor's degree Required;
• 5+ years of relevant work experience: manufacturing industry, structured;
• Experience in leading of team.

Technical/Functional Competencies

• Material Planning and Logistic Process Knowledge (incl. SAP process and transactional-interfacce, process mapping);
• Operational Knowledge (incl. SAP transactional);
• Understanding for relevant Governance in Material Planning and Logistics;
• Lean Principles, like PULL, value stream development, kanban. 
• MS Office skills;
• Italian, English or German fluently;
• Sedapta;