Senior Procurement Planner

Key Responsibilities

1. Material & Procurement Planning

• Serve as the primary interface between customer order planning teams and project stakeholders, ensuring effective coordination across functions.
• Support material simulation activities to accommodate customer order fluctuations and fulfillment requirements.
• Analyse and act on MRP reports following each MRP run.
• Provide daily updates on material delivery issues via the critical material tracking list.
• Participate in regular task force reviews on critical supply material status and escalate issues in accordance with the escalation framework.
• Attend daily operations review meetings as a platform for information exchange with customer order planning.
• Ensure materials arrive in the correct quantity and at the right time to prevent production disruption.
• Coordinate with relevant stakeholders to mitigate line stoppages when material delivery is at risk.
• Track and monitor supplier delivery performance on an ongoing basis.
• Manage suppliers with higher complexity levels and support supplier development activities.
• Prepare reports and presentation materials as required.
• Support continuous process improvement and lean manufacturing initiatives.

2. Planning Parameter Review

• Continuously review and adjust planning parameters in line with business trends and demand changes.

3. Inventory Management

• Support inventory management activities to achieve monthly coverage targets and inventory turns.
• Drive timely disposition of rejected and obsolete materials, minimise overhanging stock, pursue overhanging material claims, and manage transportation-damage dispositions.

4. Cost Management

• Develop strategic plans to minimise special freight and premium logistics costs arising from supply disruptions.
• Process special freight claims and line-down claims resulting from supplier delinquency.

5. Engineering Change Management

• Participate in engineering change requests and determine implementation dates for raw material changes.
• Support the project team in setting effective dates for software-related engineering changes.

6. Reporting & Analysis

• Support analysis of raw material ABC classification, inventory reporting, and related data as required.

7. Production System & Continuous Improvement

• Support lean manufacturing initiatives including kanban and consignment implementation and continuous improvement projects.

8. Team & Departmental Support

• Collaborate across logistics and cross-functional departments to meet shared objectives.
• Contribute toward achieving departmental goals and key performance indicators.
• Escalate procurement issues affecting individual value streams to the appropriate level.
• Undertake additional duties as assigned by management.

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Requirements

• Degree or Diploma in any discipline.
• 3 to 5 years of experience in procurement planning, material planning, or supply chain planning.
• Strong working knowledge of MRP systems and inventory management principles.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong analytical, decision-making, and data management capabilities.
• Independent, proactive, and results-driven with a high sense of ownership.
• A collaborative team player who is comfortable in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
• Flexible and adaptable to support business needs and ad-hoc projects.