Planning Clerk

About the role

Assist in planning to ensure timely, cost-effective production and delivery by aligning material purchases, manufacturing schedules, and inventory levels.

Key responsibilities

• Request and/or generate production orders for assemblies and sub-assemblies according to the build plan requirement
• Make the analysis of the build plan requirement vs current capacity, in order to escalate if there is any constraint
• Support the forecasting process to define the overall demand plan
• Ensure that the agreed upon demand plan is loaded in Rapid Response and other production planning tools are developed and maintained to support the timely production of product to meet customer requirements and maintain the desired amount of inventory
• Help develop new product production demand plans to support new product launch plans while minimizing scrap of phased out products
• Collaborate, build and maintain relationships with business partners (e.g. Sales, Marketing, Document Control, Engineering, Finance, Purchasing, Production Planning, Quality Assurance) to gain insight on requirements to sales activities, market trends and capacity status
• Monitor and report forecast accuracy, implementing necessary action items to drive improvement
• Work closely with the operation team to track and improve the demand plan vs. capacity requirements to ensure the company is growing the capacity to meet the demand requirements
• Work closely with Engineering, Purchasing, Production and Distribution to coordinate the implementation of change orders, ensure production happens in a timely manner and specific customer orders are shipped on time
• Identify forecast issues, trends and gaps and conduct analysis

About you

• Above 2 years' experience within the Production and Material Planning process
• Excellent understanding of Planning, Procurement, Manufacturing, Inventory Management, Consumer Service and Distribution
• In-depth knowledge of demand forecasting principles and excellent understanding of supply chain and how the forecast impacts the downstream business areas
• Very strong quantitative, statistical and analytical skills
• Strong numerate, analytical and critical thinking skills with demonstrated ability to evaluate whether a result is sensible or not
• Ability to translate word problems into mathematical equations
• Ability to synthesize and filter inputs from multiple resources to key in on the important influences which will impact future demand
• Excellent communication skills in listening, writing and speaking and excellent interpersonal skills
• Very good negotiating skills where desirable results are realized without damaging relationships
• Excellent Project Management skills