Material Planner

Long Description

Forvia Interiors is looking for a Material Planner based in Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal.

The Central Material Planner / Traffic Scheduler is responsible for ensuring that plants receive the materials required to meet production schedules while optimizing inventory, transport flows and operational costs.

Key responsibilities

• Execute the daily procurement process for serial materials within the assigned portfolio.
• Build leveled procurement programs by part and supplier based on MRP, plant requirements and supplier capacity.
• Schedule material and component supply to meet production requirements and minimum safety stock levels.
• Monitor inventory against agreed targets and contribute to JNI reduction through improvements in MOQ, packaging, frequency and lead time.
• Synchronize and optimize supply and transport plans while controlling transportation costs.
• Define weekly and monthly transport plans with plants and identify truck utilization opportunities.
• Manage inbound and outbound flows, including road, sea and air transport, FTL, LTL and shared flows.
• Follow up Freight Orders and ensure adherence to loading and unloading windows.
• Anticipate supply or transport risks, raise alerts and coordinate corrective or backup solutions with plants, suppliers and carriers.
• Monitor supplier capacities with plants and Purchasing, identify deviations and propose alternatives.
• Coordinate supplier delivery allocations when capacity constraints occur.
• Support the resolution of supplier and carrier claims.
• Minimize obsolete stock and business liability in coordination with plant teams.
• Develop and implement standard material supply processes.
• Maintain strong relationships with plants, suppliers, carriers and internal stakeholders.
• Support the implementation of new tools, systems and processes.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of the transport organization.

Main performance indicators

• Supplier and carrier performance, including backlogs.
• Alert management, resolution effectiveness and time to solve.
• Transport cost effectiveness and truck filling rate.
• Inventory, cash and JNI reduction performance.
• Compliance with production schedules, SLAs and agreed operational costs.

Team management and communication

• Promote the Company’s Code of Conduct and act as a role model.
• Support the team and escalate issues when required.
• Cascade key information and provide regular reporting to management.
• Select, manage and develop direct reports.
• Define skills development and training plans with HR and Plant PC&L.
• Conduct annual performance assessments.
• Actively contribute to the Supply Chain network. Qualifications

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The ideal candidate will have/be:

• Bachelor's degree in industrial, transport, or supply-chain management
• First experience in transport operations or material planning appreciated
• SAP knowledge and especially MM, PP and TM modules appreciated
• Multi-functional & Multi-cultural communication
• Minimum bi-lingual (English + one other language)
• Customer orientation / Team spirit / Resiliency / Autonomy / Openness to new ideas
• Ability to work under time pressure