Material Planner

Description The Material Planner is responsible for all day-to-day buying and planning activities focused on the procurement and delivery of assigned material. In this role, you will use your experience and expertise to partner with suppliers to develop and execute priorities in line with short-term and long-term business goals. A key element of this position will be to provide functional support to internal customers, ensure business strategies are followed through working closely with your assigned commodities and supplier base to ensure customer orders are delivered on time, are of high quality and optimal cost to the business. This is a cross-functional role that utilizes functional expertise, analytical thinking, and the ability to adapt and prioritize quickly. Primary Responsibilities:

• Translate Service and New Unit demand into supply requirements to meet customer demand, and inventory goals for the Waukesha business unit.
• Expedite and prioritize supply chain and logistics to meet standard, emergency, and short cycle customer demands
• Collaboration with SIOP to help analyze, identify, and action concerns in our demand signals.
• Interface and own timely updates to internal customers to expedite and resolve customer issues
• Ability to manage a high volume of purchase orders across multiple supply chains to ensure on time delivery
• Monitor the material input to ensure the inventory level in proper level, balance the material supply & inventory replenishment
• Work cross-functionally with purchasing/sourcing functions to ensure parts with upcoming demands are sourced in a timely manner to meet production/service needs.
• Mitigate and minimize expediting fees and other expenses with suppliers
• Supports key planning inputs into ERP, including lead times, minimum, maximum, fixed order, and fixed lot multiplier quantities, days of supply, etc.
• Assist the Buyers in resolving accounts Payable and invoice hold issues
• Manage supplier updates in ERP to ensure that they are up-to-date and of qualitative value to our internal customers
• Support supplier performance initiatives and drive resolution on performance issues by understanding supplier capacities & capabilities
• Balance both tactical execution with strategic initiatives necessary to drive cost reduction projects
• Mitigate and minimize premium transportation requests
• Drive Lean process improvements to mitigate and reduce fulfillment risk caused by both internal and external issues
• Support key business initiatives through continuous improvement projects
• Support system testing related to functional responsibilities (ERP, SupplyON, Windchill, PLM, etc.)
• Drive SupplyON adoption with suppliers
• Contribute to projects as a team member or leads small projects
• Work closely with other sourcing functions to ensure that sourcing goals are met for fulfillment, cost, and quality.
• Support Sourcing Quality Engineer and Design Engineering on timely Supplier Deviation Request (SDR) resolution.
• Willingness to take on the most effective role.

Technical Qualifications/Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college Diploma with supply chain focus or related field (or 7+ years of comparable industry experience)
• Working knowledge of Material Requirements Planning module – Oracle, SAP, etc.
• Must be a collaborative team player, willing to take ownership of decisions and be a results-oriented self-starter
• Demonstrated ability to motivate, influence people across a complex matrixed organization, drive change at all levels of the organization, and excel in fast paced business environment
• Consistent track record of meeting / exceeding key performance objectives
• Demonstrated ability to organize, assess, prioritize tasks, risks, resources, milestones, and deliverables with frequently changing priorities
• Significant procurement or equivalent experience
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications
• Demonstrated strong customer service and detail-oriented mindset
• Ability to analyze problems, identify root causes and provide efficient solutions
• Lead initiatives of moderate scope and impact