Senior Planner

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

Responsible for Production Planning and Order Fulfilment for designated product portfolio.

Work closely with Fab Operations production floor staff to ensure that all resources are properly allocated and assigned to support production, engineering and New Product Introduction (NPI) jobs.

Lead cross-functional initiatives to meet department goals and objectives.

Process appropriate documentation and coordinate material movement from stock locations to offshore assembly operations, or in response to specific requests from the R&D team.

Conduct routine analysis and maintenance of ERP and planning system data attributes.

Closely coordinate with Coherent global network of production facilities on the transfer of new products and updates to established products.

Assist Commodity Management in the identification of cost reduction and supplier development opportunities.

Regularly evaluate and optimize program related inventory with an emphasis on avoiding or minimizing excess and obsolete material levels.

Participate in and contribute to continuous process improvement initiatives at the department and division level as well as cross functionally.

Help to define, document and deploy critical planning system tools and best practice techniques throughout the entire global Supply Chain organization.

Assist management in the development and maintenance of key team performance and productivity metrics.

Provide key statistical and performance input as well recommendations for future objectives to management for use in Quarterly Business Review presentations.

Partner with the Finance Team through cross functional collaboration on NPI project status, key project deliverables and timely and accurate disposition of Excess and Obsolescence material.

Assume complete front to back ownership for all assigned projects.

Coordinate with Global Procurement Organization (GPO) on the management of domestic and off shore suppliers and sub-contractors to ensure the timely fulfillment of orders for raw material and sub-assemblies.

Education & Experience

minimum 7 years experience in a materials planning environment with an emphasis on NPI support.

Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience in lieu of degree.

Skills

Experience in high volume manufacturing.

Demonstrated change management experience.

Strong analytical skills

Strong understanding of Oracle's Advanced Planning System or equivalent

Lean Six Sigma or Continuous Improvement experience

Experience with Agile (Product Life Cycle Management)

Strong understanding of Microsoft Office applications, specifically Excel and Power Point

Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Ability to present to an executive audience.

APICS certification a plus

Enthusiastic team-player, evidence of developing solid business relationships

Proficiency with MS Office, MS Project, and Oracle required

Must understand Pl...