Buyer/Planner

Objectives & Missions Reporting directly to Assistant Manager, Purchasing, your role will be to ensure that products sourced from the Business Units (BUs) and external suppliers are made available to internal customers in the required quantities, on time, and in line with quality rules and economic objectives. As part of the Supply Chain organization and with the aim of ensuring the continuity of repair production: • Defining the procurement parameters in the MRP item master sections and in Supply Chain contracts consistent with the inventory objectives and industrial strategy (in accordance with the defined budgets) • Analyzing and measuring inventory completeness levels • Analyzing, processing, confirming, and issuing the production needs/demand to the supplier • Ensuring that all Purchase Order Requests (POR) are processed • Processing and managing external procurement (excluding non-production purchases) to ensure the operational performance of the supplier panel in terms of quality and lead-times. • Confirming deliveries for the coming week • Analyzing deliveries that are not or will not be honoured, requesting a new date from the BUs in Europe, US and Asia or external suppliers (Revised Date), and updating them • Negotiating lead times/quantities with suppliers within the contractual framework set by purchasing • Monitoring the progress of manufacturing at the supplier’s plants, managing Orders aknowledgements, monitoring flow till receipt, following up the handling of administrative disputes/discrepancies, and following up with suppliers • Managing suppliers return flows • Monitoring suppliers capacity and providing forecast to suppliers. • Monitoring and analysing suppliers performance in coordination with the HOD Supply Chain and, if supplier targets are not met, implementing the internal and external action plans in coordination with the central Supply Chain teams. Efficiency criterion: reliability of transmitted data • Handling exception messages (release an order, advancing, postponing, cancelling an order, end date overrun, late release, etc.) from the material requirement plan • Suggesting solutions in the event of shortage parts (exchanges between Shops to find solutions) • Setting up weekly purchase order lists reviews with the Coordinator & BUs • Performing financial reconciliations of PNs • Participating in the Supply Chain / Procurement department’s Quick Response Quality Control (QRQC) • Participate in new capability set-up on initial provisioning for spares • Ensure Quarantine dispositions are acted promptly • Rectify PO/ Invoice & Inventory variances • Any other duties Ensuring compliance with standards and improving them: • Applying safety and operating standards (quality, lead times, 5S, maintenance) • Updating standards by proposing improvements • Participating in improvement projects Requirements • Diploma / Bachelor degree in Supply Chain Management • 3 to 5 years’ experience or successful initial experience as a procurement Specialist, material planner or buyer in manufacturing or MRO environment is a good asset for the position. This could also open the role to relevant candidates from precision engineering, electronics, semiconductor or other regulated manufacturing environments with transferable experience. • Ability to use business systems and management tools: ERP, Supplier portal, etc. • Good knowledge and understanding of MRP2principles • Basic knowledge of business economics • Knowledge of the basic rules of customs and transport • Knowledge of suppliers contractual framework • Ability to work as a team • Possess good interpersonal and instructional skills • Project management experience • Well organized and excellent follow-up strategy