Material Planner

Hard Facts

• Start Date: ASAP
• Duration: 5 Months
• Workload: 100%, 41 hours per week
• Location: Visp, Switzerland
• Work Model: External contract

Your Responsibilities

• Perform all routine activities required to convert planned orders into material plans, including the creation and management of planned material requirements
• Liaise with Supply Planners and Schedulers to ensure that all material plans remain up to date and responsive to changes in material requirements
• Create and maintain detailed material-planning parameters within the relevant planning systems
• Convert material requirements plans and purchase requisitions into purchase orders
• Expedite material availability in close collaboration with Procurement and the teams responsible for inbound-material processing
• Create and manage material-related KPIs and metrics to ensure a reliable understanding of material availability
• Execute key material-availability, mobilization and write-off activities to support optimal inventory management while reducing scrap and waste
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to develop safety-stock and inventory plans aligned with production requirements
• Track, report and facilitate the timely availability of materials, including testing and release for production
• Identify and resolve material shortages to protect production schedules
• Support work-order execution, Bill of Materials management and New Product Introduction activities
• Monitor supplier performance, on-time delivery and contract compliance
• Support inventory-optimization and continuous-improvement initiatives in compliance with cGMP requirements

Your Experience and Skills

• Professional experience in material planning, production scheduling, purchasing or supply-chain operations
• Strong experience with Material Requirements Planning, commonly referred to as MRP
• Experience in purchase-order management, supplier expediting and shortage resolution
• Knowledge of inventory-management methods, including ABC analysis, Economic Order Quantity, reorder-point planning, safety stock and ageing-inventory analysis
• Experience working with Enterprise Resource Planning and inventory systems such as SAP MM, SAP WM, SAP IBP or JD Edwards
• Understanding of Bill of Materials management, work-order execution and New Product Introductions
• Experience collaborating with approved suppliers and monitoring supplier performance through scorecards and on-time-delivery metrics
• Knowledge of goods receipt, Goods Receipt Note and Advance Shipping Notice tracking
• Strong analytical skills and experience creating material-related KPIs and reports
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel, including VLOOKUP, PivotTables and Power Query
• Experience with Power BI, Tableau or SQL is an advantage
• Knowledge of Lean Six Sigma methodologies, DMAIC or Value Stream Mapping is an advantage
• Experience working in a cGMP-regulated environment
• Strong stakeholder-management and communication skills
• Structured, proactive and solution-oriented working style
• Professional command of English; additional languages are an advantage

Interested?

If you have hands-on material-planning experience and enjoy coordinating across supply planning, scheduling, procurement and production, we look forward to receiving your application.