packing Material Planner

Join LEGO® Manufacturing Vietnam (LMV) as a Material Planning Specialist and become a pivotal part of a team that thrives on innovation and excellence. Here, your expertise will help shape the building blocks of creativity and play, in an environment that values your growth and contribution to crafting a future where every process is as inspiring as our products. Apply now and build a career that stands the test of time, just like our bricks!
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* This role will be working temporarily at LEGO temporary office in District 1, HCMC (shuttle bus is provided from Bien Hoa, Binh Duong to the office) and be relocated to Binh Duong at the end of 2024.
Core Responsibilities:
• Responsible for the planning of raw materials and packing materials, ensuring that the production plan can be executed. Through close contact with Procurement team and suppliers, you ensure that a solid supplier relationship and performance.
• Base on Forecast to monitor PO to vendor and prepare raw material demand before release PO to vendor. Ensure it meets the MRP requirements.
• Place order with right price, right lead time, right quantity based on requirements and forecast in SAP system. Contact with supplier to ensure receiving goods in right time and right quantity. In case that material has quality issue, work with other department and vendor to clear it as replacement.
• Manage MRP exceptions and all activities related to material planning to ensure material availability for the master production plan in line with planning parameters and vendor contract.
• Ensure material master data is correct and properly maintaining of SAP transactional data.
• Monitor, follow up and provide feedback on supplier's performance on delivery, quality, and service. Take action to improve supplier's delivery performance.
• Minimize material freight expenses, control shipment on time to prevent air cost in case of urgent shortage.
• Control Inventory based on target defined and goods receipt target, consumption target to make sure inventory protection happen.
• Control unhealthy stock to avoid excess and dead stock. Reduce inventory to increase cash flow of plant.
• Responsible for all communication related to supply risks, interruptions, and impacts.
• Support department initiatives that drive improvements in process and capabilities throughout the organization.
• Ensure good communication and integration with other planning team, shop floor planner, shipping and other stakeholders.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.
Play your part in our team succeeding!
You could be our new Material Planning Specialist to support the Planning Director to start up the new Planning team in an extraordinary factory and make sure that our exciting products reach the hands of the children in the most efficient manner. You are also responsible for providing all Planning support to the Packing operation - advance information of plans, monitoring and reporting progress, etc.
Play an important country planning role to set up Material Planning process as well as planning execution in LMV.