Material Planner (3 months assignment)

Position purpose:

• Manages purchase orders, manages the schedules and forecasts for the right volumes of materials, goods and products inbound for the business.
• Validates the consistency of the supplies, conducts and coordinates the purchase orders with the Category Buyer, the production planning and the Project Manager.
• Insures that the delivery of material meet the production schedule and adequat stock levels to ensure operational and production continuity and contributes to the implementation of the necessary actions.
• Maintains strong relationships both internally and externally to ensure supply of materials meets requirements

Role & Responcibility:

• nsures all professional procurement tasks are well conduct end ensures that products, modules, items, and services are provided in an appropriate manner and in accordance with the terms and conditions negotiated by the Category Buyer with suppliers (respect for sources of supply);
• Ensures compliance with supply. Ensures compliance with deadlines, specifications and standards (methodology) and quality procedures; suppliers follow-up;
• Plans shipments and receipts (full supply chain from supplier to point of delivery). Must, in an emergency context, be able to demonstrate composure and hindsight in order to best manage unforeseeable events (production shortage, supplier failure, problem with a carrier);
• Finalize and issue purchase orders for all requests;
• Work with planning departement to communicate the appropriate forecasts to suppliers as appropriate.
• Ensures volume of orders in line with supplier capacity;
• Determine optimum logistics solutions for purchased components;
• Work with Finance to reconsile invoices problems;
• Be parts of the procurement strategies with the Category buyer and implements the necessary actions to improve them (delay, communication, presentation of supplier performance results);
• Able to launch RFQ and negotiate pricing.
• Ensures a stock and component availability balance, responsible for managing its "supplier portfolio" on both the stock level and the service rate;
• Ensures the ERP parameters are well completed and maintained : supply policy (PTS, PTO), lead time, security stock, supplier conditions, price conditions, MOQ, consolidation period;
• Support KPI’s improvements.
• Is the guarantor of compliance with the processes (Procure-to-pay), Grant of Authority.

Skills & Experience:

• Education: Business School or Business CFC (with a specialization in logistics);
• 5 years in procurement / sourcing / logistics;
• ERP Mastery;
• Excel, Word, Powerpoint.

Key competencies:

• Customer Focus: Acts with the customer in mind. Builds and maintains good relations with customers. Listening to and understanding customer challenges and requirements.
• Result Orientation: Possesses and applies knowledge and skills necessary for task completion. Does things and/or ensures things are done from the perspective of both quality and quantity of work.
• Initiative and Adaptability: Seizes opportunities in a proactive way. Does not give up when faced with a difficult situation. Identifies problems and finds solutions in a creative manner.
• Teamwork: Works cooperatively with others and is part of a team. Helps others and fosters a spirit of cooperation to achieve a common goal.
• Communication: Written and verbal communications are clear, concise and understandable.

Languages:

Good level of English and French (spoken and written).

We offer an interesting job in an international growing company, dynamic and collaborative working environment, possibility to work on innovative projects and continuous professional growth.

If you are Swiss or EU citizen, or hold a valid work permit, please apply, and send your full application only in English.

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