EMEA SC Planner

Description -

Job scope/summary:

The scope of Printing team is to source and deploy Pan EMEA the right printing commercial parts to our customers: Break-Fix (Onsite/Channel/MPS) / Part resales (PL91) / MPS supplies. This represents 3M part shipped per year representing an overall budget above 100M$ with an inventory of above 30M$.

The Supply Chain Planner will manage a given portfolio /product line associated to external HP vendor; he/she will plan inventories for EMEA Network for the products assigned to drive high level of availability (TCE) within the inventory limitations, minimizing SC planning related costs.

Job specifics/responsibilities:

Planning activity for a specific portfolio:

• DMD Forecasting: Maintain part availability to support customer needs: Calculate the needs for spare parts (or Whole Unit Exchange), place appropriate supplier Purchase Orders and monitor the planned deliveries from suppliers.
• End-to-End Planning: Maintain part availability to support customer needs: Calculate the needs for spare parts (or Whole Unit Exchange), place appropriate supplier Purchase Orders and monitor the planned deliveries from suppliers.
• Inventory Management: Manage inventory in EMEA Network (Central warehouse, VHUBs, CHUBs) by defining inventory target for all EMEA locations.
• Lifecycle Management: Work on problems of diverse complexity and scope (New Product Intro, Life-Time Buys, Rolls, Upgrades, others)
• Customer Delivery Performance: Report planning performance of the products assigned; timely spot deviations and launch effective mitigation plan
• Perform monthly, weekly & daily planning activities for the products assigned to drive the key deliverables.
• Actively participate on meetings with other members of the team.
• Forecast needs in his area of responsibility

Finance/Cost and TCE accountability:

• Manage Good Inventory Scrap costs (Excess & Obsolescence) –
• Minimize Planning-driven costs (Inbound, exception, airfreight, rebalancing, reverse)
• Share best practices among the team thru active participation in performance reviews or team meetings.
• Develop Finance / Cost acumen linked to planning activity, understand the cost impacts and balance with TCE expected results; capture the committed costs in respective trackers (Non Prod PO, Air Freight, …)
• Bring creative ideas to improve Cost and/or TCE Develop data analysis capability in order to prioritize actions that will strongly influence results.

Key deliverables/accountabilities:

• Inventory: Gross inventory
• Operational : Material availability & delivery performance (GLOS, LOF, LOA), Backlog including aged backlog
• Finance: Portfolio cost optimization (Inbound, exception, airfreight, rebalancing, reverse ...)
• Meet commitments
• Productivity and efficiency
• Process quality and accuracy

Working relationships:

Internal:

• CS Supply chain & delivery organization
• Printing Vertica team
• WW procurement organization
• WW PLM organization
• WW & EMEA Engineering
• Regional Categories (IW and Trade)
• MPS

External:

• HP Suppliers

Education (degree) and professional experience required:

• High School /Bachelor/Master degree
• 4 to 7 years of professional experience in Planning or Supply Chain similar functions

Other requirements:

• Fluent in English language

Personal skills and qualities:

• Managing Complexity (Ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously and work to tight deadlines)
• Big Data and Real Time Analytics
• Analytical problem solving
• Customer Focus / Intimacy (strong communication skills; positive can-do attitude; customer centric approach)
• Ability to work with maximum autonomy (remote management/team)
• Assertiveness to drive actions and achieve operational performance targets
• Innovative thinker able to use creative solutions in problem solving

Technical skills (procedures and documents the employee has to be acquainted with):

• MS Office& Power BI (or equivalent)
• Planning ERP

Job -

Supply Chain & Operations

Schedule -

Full time

Shift -

Standard Shift (Bulgaria)

Travel -

Relocation -

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