Specialist – Material Planner Pre-series JIT / JIS

Specialist – Material Planner Pre-series JIT / JIS

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional experience in logistics or production environment in the automotive industry.
• Bachelor’s degree in business, Supply Chain Management, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
• Proven experience in the field of scheduling or pre series logistics, demands and call offs for JIT/JIS preferred.
• Excellent negotiation and communication skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage complexity
• Collaborative team-player with strong interpersonal skills able to work at each hierarchical level of the company
• Strong understanding of Production environment and affinity to work with complex IT-Systems.

Responsibilities

• Monitoring and checking of the gross and demand calculations taking into account any short-term changes in the production program for JIT/ JIS parts
• Monitoring of deliveries/dates according to delivery schedule in coordination with all parties involved (suppliers, freight forwarders and warehouses)
• Checking the sub-/overstocks of components by JIT/JIS supplier based on the available IT systems
• Independent definition and maintenance of the relevant master data and pre-series parameters for JIT/JIS
• Ensuring supplier information for model maintenance and projects with regard to pre-series JIT / JIS parts delivery dates
• Ensuring part availability from external and internal suppliers for new project start-ups (VFF, PVS, 0 series, SOP), model years / maintenance and ongoing change projects
• Initiation and coordination of special measures with suppliers, freight forwarders and production in the event of supply problems, transport losses and damage as well as supplier failures
• Monitoring of program readiness (initial sample target dates)
• Coordination with suppliers and internal departments for the use of new parts stands and scheduling
• Organization and coordination of parts provision for pre-series vehicles
• Phase-out and start-up control during model maintenance in close cooperation with the Technical Change Service
• Cross-divisional coordination, e.g. with Quality management, technical development, suppliers, bill of materials, assembly or technical office regarding the implementation of the planned change requests, change controls and model maintenance points
• Participation in standard appointments for the development of the resource planning of parts and changes.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree preferred.