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Job Title: Master Planner

Position Title: Master Planner
Discipline: NA 
Level of Contribution: Expanding/Influencing
Functional Area: Supply Chain
FLSA Classification: Exempt 
AAP Job Group: 2B- Other Professionals
Reports to: Supply Chain Manager or other position as assigned
Direct Reports: Planners
EEO-1 Category: 2 Professionals

Job Position Summary:

This position is responsible for the planning organization and to develop and continuously optimize the master production schedule to meet customer backlog and sales forecast, plan workflow for each
department, monitor resources, material and capacity availability. Influences the optimization of the
master production schedule with clear ties to order management leadership to ensure seamless customer delivery.

Functional Contribution (Contribution Matrix):

• Serves as a Subject Matter Expert (SME)
• Serve as a mentor and role model
• Interprets policies and communicate changes
• Applies tools and techniques from experiences and expertise to reach solutions
• Reports trends to Senior Leadership
• Understand the majority of skills in an area of responsibility.
• Understands the business operations
• Facilitates, coaches, and mentor’s others
• Solves complex problems
• Determines scope, budget, and implementation timeframes of assigned projects
• Understands the financial aspects of the business
• Ability to organize and simplify data for understanding and action
• Makes sound decisions based on evaluation of available information
• Manages internal and external two-way communications to promote the best interest of all parties
• Develops strong relationships and provides effective communication, prioritization, and alignment
• Fosters collaboration
• Promotes consensus
• Identifies team member development needs and provides career coaching and planning assistance

Skills, Abilities and Mastery (Responsibility Matrix):

Delivery:

• Responsible for the planning load to operations production floor
• Integrator for all functional alignment to execution of demand plan i.e. Customer Interface, Customer Service, Engineering, Purchasing, Tooling, Manufacturing and Logistics.
• Establish processes to effectively communicate changes in supply and demand to the purchasing
team to enable prioritization and alignment across value streams, sites, business units, and
functions to fulfill customer needs.
• Provides risk mitigation and management planning, problem solving and issue resolution, process
enhancement recommendations, and adherence to policies, procedures and systems.
• Manufacturing Site Demand Management Plan for Build, Ship and Inventory
• Material Readiness
• Liaison between customer and the operations scheduling team
• SME/Planning Lead:
• Leadership expertise with planners
• Connect functional leaders to drive one goal without direct reporting structure in all order
management flow i.e. customer service, purchasing and delivery.
• 24 Hour sales order acknowledgement
• Control and optimize customer lead times
• Development of plan to meet customer needs
• Execute to finished goods and consignment levels for inventory management
• Responsible for delivery of demand and production plans i.e. sales order and internal demand

Business Partner: 
• Develops strong relationships and provides effective communication, prioritization, and alignment
across value streams, sites, business units, and functions
• Demonstrates capability for engaging with external/internal business partners to provide seamless
linkage of supply chain processes.
• Engaged in Sales and Operating Plan for Financial Planning and Results aligned with cross-functional leadership for customer expectations.
• Strong relationship skills to influence and engage cross-functional leadership without direct reporting structure

Center of Expertise (COE)
• Financial Acumen for Business Making Decisions
• Demonstrates capabilities in material management, Material Requirements Planning (MRP), pull
systems, flow, and the implementation of lean concepts
• Excellent customer service, interpersonal, organizational, and communication skills.
• Relevant certification in APICS (CPIM, CSCP, CFPIM), ISM (CPM, CPSM, CSM), or equivalent
• Proficient in Excel and other Microsoft Office tools
• Excellent negotiation and problem-solving skills. Possess exceptional conflict resolution skills and is adept at dealing with situations involving conflict.

Education, Experience and Certification Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience (5-8 years)
• Technical certification preferred
• Project management experience
• Leadership training

Additional Information Regarding Position

• Ability to fluently speak and write in English is required for this position
• Potential of travel up to 50%

Contact point for the job:

Name: Ms Lili Sharhani/Ms Nurulizzati
Email: [email protected]