Production Planning Coordinator (7-Month Contractor)

GENERAL FUNCTION
This position is responsible for monitoring order management and production plan, solving problems during the production. Manage seasonal and monthly production planning activities to support the global business requirements. Connecting the front-end strategies to the souring strategy in order to make clear decisions that are aligned and proactive.
PRIMARY DUTIES
- Support the Senior Production Planning Manager through leading a team on current planning processes and key areas of responsibility, and making process improvements for efficiency and in line with team and company strategy
- Build strategic relationships with all Demand Planning teams, Strategy Planning teams and Product operation Teams
- Support strategic sourcing direction for production and capacity planning through supporting short and long term planning at the country, vendor, and factory level allocation strategies.
- Work closely with the factories and Demand Planning teams to ensure that production plan are aligned with buy calendars and brand launch dates.
- Generate summary reports on orders, shipments, delayed etc. per requirement.
- Maintain system update in a timely fashion with accuracy.
- Monitor the whole process from order receiving through the shipment
- Provide help and solution on day to day works among the team before heading it up to the manager.
- Generate summary reports on orders/delays plus shipment documents, plus other reports per requirement.
- Other general administration tasks assigned.