MRP Lead

Responsible for MRP planners, and is the Point of escalation in Global Business Service.

Responsibilities

Overview Reporting into cross category

• Cluster Head, the Material Requirements Planning lead is responsible for the cluster MRP planning activities in GCC for a particular category, ensuring the ongoing availability of materials to support the production plans and hence satisfy the market demand.
• This role is the main interface between the GCC Planning Hub and the Market and GCC Supply Planning for materials
• Planning collaborating with the operations teams and market planners to ensure market plans are adopted and service levels and working capital targets are met
• Lead the Material Planning team for a specific category for the cluster
• Accountable for the weekly/daily material plans and issuing POs (purchase orders) to materials suppliers
• Front end the discussion with Factory Supply planners for in scope materials
• Daily collaboration with CCC Supply Planning to match materials to production plans
• Accountable for sharing the 16 weeks plan to Central Material planning team(Snacks) and with suppliers for beverages
• Coordinate material PIPO with Innovation coordinator ensuring on time delivery of new launches with minimum possible obsoletes
• Highlight any material risk that might cause manufacturing interruption to Supply Planning and RemainCo teams

Provide insights through various management reports

• Leads daily/weekly collaboration with suppliers to ensure on time delivery of materials End to End inventory analytics (ex-Business wastage, excess inventory) including target of reducing inventory
• Deliver all material planning KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) and RCA (Root Cause Analysis) of issues
• Manager suppliers KPIs and leads the improvement and/or escalation of any declined performance
• Analyse the reason for plan failures and work with internal team to fix the issues
• Bring best practice of market to the delivery
• Manage the group of MRP team members (6– 9 MRP planners & innovation coordinators, MDMs) Responsible for adopting the current systems and leads the run to standard agenda and compliance targets for Material Planning area
• Developing tools with the help of IT teams
• RPA (Robotic Process Automation) in the existing delivery

Requirements

• MBA Operations/Supply Chain/ Engineering (preferred) Experience – 6 to 8 years in associated function
• Experienced in Supply Chain Planning (demand, supply planning and/or material plannings)
• Proven management skills with the ability to optimise team performance and development (6 – 9 direct reports) at L6 and L7 High level of knowledge & understanding of the E2E planning systems & processes and experience with any ERP system (preferred) Strong collaboration skills and an ability to work with other functions / departments to address critical challenges as a result of market change or changes in technical, manufacturing or End to end planning processes.
• Strong analytical skills with a keen eye for detail, able to interrogate data and produce detailed outputs.
• Team lead experience
• Team oriented and collaborative
• Problem solving know-how
• Excellent communication and relation building skills

Ability to work independently in a multi-task environment

• Application of Supply chain principles with extensive knowledge in MRP & Production planning
• Skills in query/reporting tools , spreadsheet applications and presentations