Lead Material Planner

Responsibilities:
• Working with the sales and operations team to convert the demand plans into physical orders.
• Understanding business trends, opportunities and how they impact the demand forecast.
• Planning and scheduling order timelines to be consistent with customer requirements while minimizing inventory and shipping costs.
• Analyzing incoming demand: identifies order exceptions, misalignment with product rationalization strategy and opportunities to utilize existing inventory.
• Implementing inventory stocking strategies.
• Monitoring levels of safety stock, global and aging inventory and works with regions and manufacturing plants to address accordingly.
• Implementing inventory stocking strategies.