Material Planner

COMPANY :

TE Connectivity Ltd. is a $16 billion global technology and manufacturing leader creating a safer, sustainable, productive, and connected future. For more than 75 years, our connectivity and sensor solutions, proven in the harshest environments, have enabled advancements in transportation, industrial applications, medical technology, energy, data communications, and the home. With 80,000 employees, including more than 8,000 engineers, working alongside customers in approximately 140 countries, TE ensures that EVERY CONNECTION COUNTS. Learn more at www.te.com

BU / FUNCTION DESCRIPTION:

Global Automotive

ROLE OBJECTIVE:

The incumbent will be responsible for end-to-end Material planning operations for automative. He / She should be ensuring the availability of finished materials in the supply chain. Playing major role on Key performance Indicator of Supply Chain Management. To coordinate and integrate the flow of materials and information among suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, and customers, identifying opportunities for improving efficiency, effectiveness and capabilities of the supply chain.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

•Manage the Purchase Order (PO) fulfilment cycle, from purchase requisition through Goods Receipt in the Regional Distribution Centers.

•Work with suppliers and Global Logistics teams to address incidents or exceptions.

•Troubleshoot, expedite and de-expedite product availability and work with cross-functional teams to meet delivery and inventory KPIs, improving customer service and experience, while optimizing logistics cost, inventory and obsolescence

•Execute and coordinate production priority and supply allocation with Master Production Scheduling, Sales and Product Management under capacity and resource constraint.

•Respond to unexpected event in the supply chain, report and escalate those risks to the Supply Chain Manager.

•Track and improve ship to request and ship to schedule performance.

•Clarify short lead time and abnormal demand with Demand Management, Product Manager, Sales and Customer Service Team.

•Perform and publish root cause analysis on delivery performance KPIs.

•Execute Make-To-Order, Make-to-Forecast and Make-To-Stock strategies.

•Coordinate global stock rebalancing activities.

•Review healthy stock levels, conduct root cause analysis and back to normal actions.

•Speed up maturity of old date code, dead projects and quality issues.

•Define demand & supply characteristics and propose optimize segmentation and planning strategies.

•Track billing and shipping backlog versus forecast.

•Expedite late code and shippable late.

•Initiate measurements of guaranteeing production and customer deliveries in case of shortages and other delivery problems.

EDUCATION/KNOWLEDGE:

•Bachelor or master’s degree in supply chain, Logistics, Operations, Commerce

•Knowledge in SAP, MS Office, Access, SharePoint.

•Very high customer and service orientation required.

•Knowledge on Supply Chain Management and Sales Operations.

•Very strong Time Management skills

•Fluent English language skills – written and spoken.

•Strong analytical ability to translate data into actionable information.

•Ability to quickly adapt to new requirements (change Management)

•Ability to work in an intercultural and international team.

CRITICAL EXPERIENCE:

•Minimum 5-8 years’ experience in Material / Product planning.

•Experience in working with multiple teams globally.