Planning Manager

ABOUT YOUR ROLE

This position reports to the Plant Manager, Kulim and will be responsible for planning material and production requirements to support the plant's short-, mid-, and long-term needs. This is a strategic position with the expectation that the candidate will eventually take over overall Material Planning and Production Planning. 

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES WILL INCLUDE

Material Planning:

• The person will be working very closely with the Demand and Production Planning to ensure direct materials and consumables short, mid and long term demand are properly understood, aligned, planned and purchased.
• The person will be responsible and accountable to ensure that the material inventory levels are kept within our forecast and work with Procurement, Global Procurement and Suppliers to continuously drive improvements in terms of lead time, pricing, sourcing for business continuity, quality and delivery.
• Prepare monthly reports and quarterly reports such as KPI report, Risk Inventory Report, Spend Data Report for cost saving, Supplier On Time Delivery (OTD) Performance Report and Supplier Performance Review Report.
Production Planning:

• Production planning and forecast management for respective production lines.
• Inventory management to streamline production, meet on-time delivery and achieve inventory performance targets.
• Capacity analysis and improvement.
• Production planning by quarterly according to the analysis of historical order, forecast, capacity and inventory status.
• Overall responsible for production schedule to meet delivery targets and shorten end-to-end lead time.
• Keep good communication and relationship with customers.
• Outsourcing management.
• Own full Oracle launch in Operation.
• People management and coaching.
• Work with the financial departments to come up with sales, contribution margin and spending plan, drive execution to meet the target.

Department: Supply Chain
Experience Level: Mid-Senior Level