What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Materials Buyer Planner position at Indotronix Avani Group?
The materials buyer planner senior serves as the site subject matter expert (SME) for the end-to-end management purchased materials, components, and services, ensuring uninterrupted material availability to support production and business requirements. The materials buyer-planner senior owns and coordinates materials flow strategies for assigned to drive continuous improvement initiatives to ensure supply continuity and service levels.
Key Responsibilities:
- Serves as the first point of escalation for junior materials buyer planners to resolve supplier issues, materials shortages and other day to day opportunities that may disrupt supply continuity.
- Mentor other materials buyer-planners as required by Materials Manager.
- Lead phase-in and phase-out planning for new products and engineering changes.
- Translate production requirements, forecasts, MRP signals, inventory levels, lead times, and safety stock requirements into actionable purchase orders and material planning strategies.
- Identify potential material shortages before they impact production and develop recovery plans to maintain supply continuity.
- Monitor and maintain updated SAP planning parameters (i.e. including supplier lead times, minimum order quantities, order multiples, safety stock levels, and other material planning data).
- Partner with Materials Management, SIOP, Operations, Warehouse, Engineering, Quality, and other cross-functional teams to ensure material availability and support production requirements.
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, business, or related field preferred.
Experience:
- 7-10 years of planning, procurement, inventory, or manufacturing experience.