Deputy Manager - Materials
Pune (Pune Division) Accounting / Management control
Job description
Job Description Summary
Coordinate and expedite the flow of materials (from suppliers and also within departments) according to production schedules. Plan and schedule material/production needs. Impacts quality of own work and the work of others on the team. Executes standard operational/technical tasks typically subject to instructions and work routines. There is latitude to rearrange the sequence to complete task/duties based on changing work situations.Job Description
Roles and Responsibilities
- Manage master planning, material processes and systems, prepare and update production schedules and purchasing needs. Ensure operational alignment with production plan and KPIs. Optimize inventory and process improvements.
- Broadening knowledge of own technical discipline to execute policy/strategy. May include support roles with specialized technical field of knowledge; still acquiring higher level knowledge and skills.
- Basic understanding of key business drivers; uses this understanding to accomplish own work. Good understanding of how work of own team integrates with other teams and contributes to the area.
- May have some autonomy to make decisions within a defined framework. Resolves issues in situations that require good technical knowledge and judgment within established procedures. Consults more senior team members for issues outside of defined instructions/parameters.
- A job at this level requires good interpersonal skills and may be required to lead a junior team. For customer facing roles, develops strong customer relationships and serves as the interface between customer and GE. Explains technical information to others.
Operational Responsibility
- Place POs in system keeping inventory & Order-to-Build (OTB) in mind & seek PO acknowledgement from suppliers.
- Conduct regular follow-ups with suppliers for production shipment schedules & monitor status.
- Manage supplier documentation to ensure compliance to regulator
- Conduct daily meeting with suppliers to understand bottlenecks, challenges
- Ensure on-time unloading of delivery vehicles & closure of GRN
- Ensure inventory targets related to safety stock is not breached
- Check & download inventory stock
- Sourcing discussion to finalize supplier, allocation any challenges from supplier
- Ensure on-time resolution on RTV , loan and rep, MRB related issue
- Packaging improvement to avoid risk and reduce cost of transportation
- Lead time and logistic time reduction by working with CFT
- Change implementation
- Obsolute part inventory and inventory ageing reduction
- Product knowledge and drawing interpretation to support sourcing on identifying new sources.
- Knowledge of OTR related activities to execute shipments to customer.
- Check for inventory, lead time of part and place PO on-time to ensure availability of material as per build plan.
- Should not be short & long cycle PO.
- Close backdated PO for Po reconciliation
- Ensure maximum threshold inventory raw material plus Goods in transit is not exceeded by ensuring material arrangement as per build plan, control, and improvement on DOH and OTB.
Required Qualifications
- This role requires basic experience in the Manufacturing & Materials Planning and Execution. Knowledge level is comparable to a Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college
Desired Characteristics
- Strong oral and written communication skills. Ability to document, plan, market, and execute programs.
- Strong Material planning skill
- EXIM (Export-Import policies)
- Inventory management/PFEP
- Strong analytical and problem-solving
- Six sigma
- Knowledge of Warehousing
Additional Information
Relocation Assistance Provided: No