Planning Officer

Role Objectives
• Follow up order enquiry from Melbourne office and Merchandising team
• Ensure factory's production is on schedule
• Work with factory to meet cargo ready date (delivery date) to achieve the OTFI result >95%
• Monitor the new item development schedule to meet the market requirements and launch date
• Frequent travel in Southeast Asia region for factory visits to review production and ensure ramp up can meet our shipment schedules
Responsibilities:
• Plan and prepare master schedule to establish sequence and lead time of each order to meet shipping dates according to sales forecasts or customer orders.
• Analyze production specifications and performs mathematical calculations to determine tools capacity and requirements.
• Confer with department supervisors to determine status of assigned projects.
• Expedite factory that delay schedules and alters schedules to meet unforeseen conditions.
• Prepare all related reporting in systems.
• Prepare purchase orders to vendor for fulfil customer orders.
• Review and control FGMA / MAR release to avoid excess materials.
• Control and minimize the liabilities exposure.
• Vendor Quote & Pricing in coordination with Procurement Team.
• Manage packaging materials reports & lab test reports update (DOI Planning).
• Travelling required.
Key Capabilities:
Relating & Networking:
Create win-win partnerships with others. Relates to others in a confident and relaxed manner. Establishes good relationships with customers and employees; relates well to people at all levels; builds wide and effective networks of contacts; uses humour appropriately to bring warmth to relationships with others.
Achieving Personal Work Goals & Objectives:
Seeks progression to roles of increased responsibility and influence; identifies own development needs and makes use of developmental or training opportunities. Driving improvements including personal work goals and objectives.
Delivering Results & Meeting Customer Expectations:
Driving improvements for business results, including personal work goals and objectives. Focuses on customer needs and satisfaction; sets high standards for quality and quantity; monitors and maintains quality and productivity; works in a systematic, methodical and orderly way; consistently achieves project goals.
Presenting & Communicating with Impact:
Communicates for impact, clarity and connection. Speaks fluently; expresses opinions, information and key points clearly; makes effective use of processes to influence and persuade others; promotes ideas on behalf of oneself and others; makes a strong personal impact on others; takes care to manage one's impression on others.
Applying expertise and Technical Capability:
Has the functional and technical knowledge and skills to do the job well and applies this expertise accordingly. Quickly learns new technology.
Relating & Networking:
Create win-win partnerships with others. Relates to others in a confident and relaxed manner. Establishes good relationships with customers and employees; relates well to people at all levels; builds wide and effective networks of contacts; uses humour appropriately to bring warmth to relationships with others.
Achieving Personal Work Goals & Objectives:
Seeks progression to roles of increased responsibility and influence; identifies own development needs and makes use of developmental or training opportunities. Driving improvements including personal work goals and objectives.
Delivering Results & Meeting Customer Expectations:
Driving improvements for business results, including personal work goals and objectives. Focuses on customer needs and satisfaction; sets high standards for quality and quantity; monitors and maintains quality and productivity; works in a systematic, methodical and orderly way; consistently achieves project goals.
Presenting & Communicating with Impact:
Communicates for impact, clarity and connection. Speaks fluently; expresses opinions, information and key points clearly; makes effective use of processes to influence and persuade others; promotes ideas on behalf of oneself and others; makes a strong personal impact on others; takes care to manage one's impression on others.
Applying expertise and Technical Capability:
Has the functional and technical knowledge and skills to do the job well and applies this expertise accordingly. Quickly learns new technology.
Contacts: Have frequent contact with the following internal and external parties:
Internal:
Moose Australia: Product Management team, Global Planning team, Business Development team
Moose Far East: Engineering - Project Management team, Quality - QA/QC team, Procurement team, Merchandizing team, Shipping team, Finance team
External:
Vendors (all with manufactured of Moose items)
Suppliers (all types of materials related to product)