Team Lead, Import Planning

Your Job

Responsible to manage all the activities of planning team such as healthy inventory level and keep excess stock to minimum. He/She will choose the most cost-effective mode of transportation from manufacture entities and ensure on time delivery into the supply chain hubs to meet customer demand and other logistic reports effectively and manage the team to ensure that the responsibilities stated above are well executed and focus on continuous value creation for the organization.

What You Will Do

• Effectively manage and drive to perform day-to-day operations activities by meeting the set KPI’s.
• Ensure customer demand is accurately translated to MLX and non-MLX manufacturing plants via purchase documents.
• To process all expedite requests sent by customer service and actively follow up with the manufacturing plants to assure customer satisfaction
• Coordinate the expedite process between customer service and the Molex manufacturing plants
• To monitor and control all aspects of the purchase document backlog, i.e. overdue, reschedules, unscheduled, substitutions/replacements, returns to ensure MD04 is as clean as possible
• To manage the supply delivery performance of Molex manufacturing plants and external vendors.
• To support the allocation process in cooperation with relevant stakeholders.
• Monitor key performance indicators and take appropriate actions required to meet set targets.
• Support the periodic review of inventory strategies and of demand planning selection
• Support continuous improvement processes and automation projects
• Review the safety stock and VSFB load (forecast) as suggested by S&OP and will challenge S&OP teams when suggestions are not in line with actual numbers.
• Works with Sales and Product Managers on various order issues such as promising, delivery dates, cancellations, and returns. Assists sales in determining standard pack and minimum order quantities for parts
• Manage inventory (DSI), slow and excess or obsolete material
• Provides data, analysis, reports, etc. to management as requested
• Provide training to trainees and to the set expectations
  
  
  

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• MBA / Bachelor’s degree in Engineering / Logistics / Supply Chain or related field
• Good Communication skills
• Good PC skills in particular Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Power BI)
• Proficient in SAP MM Modul
  
  
  

What Will Put You Ahead

REQUIRED:

• 7+ years of experience in global planning(international / intercontinental using multi modal transport e.g. Air/Ocean/Rail), scheduling, purchasing materials requirement or supply chain environment.
• Hands on experience in SAP, SAP Ariba and Microsoft Excel
• Exposure to planning strategies and GS&OP.
  
  
  

PREFERRED:

• Hands on experience on analytic tools BW, PowerBI etc