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The LEGO Group Material Planning Specialist in Tan Uyen, Vietnam
Material Planning Specialist
Location Tan Uyen, Bình Dương, Vietnam
Job ID 0000016504
Category Manufacturing & Production
Job Description
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!
* T his 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 forthe 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.
Ensurematerial master data is correctand 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 Inventorybased 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.
Do you have what it takes?
Prefer candidate with Bachelor or Master’s Degree in Logistics/ Supply Chain Management or Finance/Accounting Management, Business Management or similar education background
Strong command of English
Must -have qualifications
Aminimum of 5-year-experiencein material planning/ buyer/ production planning at multinational manufacturing site with end-to-end Supply Chain, S&OP Process.
Comprehensive understanding of existing and future capacity plans/constraints at the manufacturing plant and distribution network, and knowledge of how production capacity can be flexed to meet demand.
MS Office (Power Point and Excel is a must, Power BI is a plus)
Deep knowledge in SAP system.
Good problem-solving skills, able to identify and structure issues, run accurate analysis and synthesize recommendations.
Strong communication & inter-personal skills, able to work under pressure.
Good analytical, communication and coordination skills
Proven record in professional working style with demonstrated ability provide support effectively, also in a matrix environment – working with large cross-functional, cross-cultural teams.
Good with numbers and attention to details.
Nice-to-have qualifications
Preference on Consumer Goods industry
Understanding of import & export process will be an advantage
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What’s in it for you?
Here are some of what to expect:
Family Care Leave – We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.
Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.
Wellness – We want you to be your best self, so you'll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programmes run by local teams where you are based.
Colleague Discount – We know you'll love to build so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.
Bonus – We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.
Your workplace –When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.
Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.
The LEGO Group is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay regardless of e.g. race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, disability or gender identity.
The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.
Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.
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