Manager, Supply Chain Planning & Inventory

Job Description

Summary

Drive the planning and inventory processes, tools and applications for the site / function. Advance subject matter expertise of planning and inventory management processes, tools and application. Coach and mentor others on their strategic activities. The Planning and Inventory Manager is responsible for facilitating, mentoring and coordinating successful planning and inventory projects. This includes ensuring that both the technical and people aspects are taken into account, incorporating change management strategies. Manage resources to effectively help execute the site / function strategy deployment plans.

Detailed Description

Performs tasks such as, but not limited to, the following :

• Drives team to manage material shortages to ensure Clear to Builds in collaboration with the Purchasing and SLM Team.
• Supports the team being the liaison between customer project management and internal departments on the introduction of new product requirements.
• Ensures the team performs a timely and accurate demand management process (If the demand is managed by the Planning Team at your Site).
• Ensures proper Excess, Surplus and Obsolete inventory.
• Ensures the team identifies the impact of excess and obsolescence and drives necessary actions to mitigate it.
• Ensures bills of material are accurate and collaborate with other teams on any engineering changes.
• Collaborates with different stakeholders to achieve Inventory Entitlement targets and drive results.
• Drives actions to meet the Inventory goals (Inventory cash adjusted and Turns), including performing accurate Inventory Projection.
• Leads the team to maintain continuous Material Supply to achieve the targeted inventory levels and turns.
• Ensures the team performs material and capacity analysis before loading MPS. Monitor MPS accuracy, attainment and level load metrics and drive necessary actions to improve them.
• Validates that the team performs Financial Impact Analysis (FIA) to mitigate inventory risk before loading MPS.
• Works with other departments to review and dispose of non-conforming materials.
• Ensures production schedules to meet the customer requirements to achieve high levels of on time delivery.
• Ensures proper POR including OAR management and timely execution.
• Drives necessary actions to meet revenue goals.
• Manages RMA orders. Works with other departments to meet repair commitments.
• Monitors planning parameters ROP & SS to ensure optimized inventory levels.
• Ensures proper execution of the SIOP Process (including accurate data, timely submission, execution of Rhythm meetings with the key stakeholders) until approval completion on a monthly basis.
• Maintains responsibility for SCM Team training completion, performance management, development, recognition, coaching and compensation of employees.
• Reassigns personnel as necessary to optimize work. Act as a liaison with customers to ensure forecast commitments are met.
• Collaborates with other departments to improve supply flex programs.

Knowledge / Skills / Competencies

Physical Demands

Typical Experience

Typical Education

Notes

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities of the position. Employees are held accountable for all duties of the job. Job duties and the % of time identified for any function are subject to change at any time.

Celestica is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, and local laws.

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Celestica is an E-Verify employer.

COMPANY OVERVIEW :

Celestica (NYSE, TSX : CLS) enables the world’s best brands. Through our recognized customer-centric approach, we partner with leading companies in Aerospace and Defense, Communications, Enterprise, HealthTech, Industrial, Capital Equipment and Energy to deliver solutions for their most complex challenges. As a leader in design, manufacturing, hardware platform and supply chain solutions, Celestica brings global expertise and insight at every stage of product development – from drawing board to full-scale production and after-market services for products from advanced medical devices, to highly engineered aviation systems, to next-generation hardware platform solutions for the Cloud. Headquartered in Toronto, with talented teams spanning 40+ locations in 13 countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia, we imagine, develop and deliver a better future with our customers.

Celestica would like to thank all applicants, however, only qualified applicants will be contacted.

Celestica does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies or fee based recruitment services.