**Responsibilities and Essential Functions**:
This position will be responsible for comprehending the needs and requirements of customers or business partners in order to bring strategic value to them while promoting customer needs as the key driver for business goals and initiatives.
Building strong relationships and partnerships across the company to leverage ideas, capabilities, and processes is critical to the role as well as instilling an energetic and enthusiastic response in others toward achieving company goals and priorities, and arousing others' commitment and support, even when embarking on unknown territory.
This work consists of unifying internal constituents around a common vision and goals, and teaming with others for enhanced outcomes.
This work requires attention to detail, managing multiple priorities and taking actions with mínimal direction which may encompass but not limited to the following:
- Support product supply and inventory plans consistent with the objectives of the business or product line.
- Create a production plan for the assigned module and final production areas.
The production plan considers customer order status, forecast, material availability, production equipment issues, ECN activity and other related production issues in an effort to satisfy customer delivery performance and financial objectives, based on established priorities.
- Assist in resolving circumstances causing delivery not in compliance with customer want dates or excess and slow moving inventory, identifying causes and developing solutions to improve current and future performance.
Provide material status and action plans to business unit, materials management and supply source organizations.
- Maintain accurate Bills of Materials for existing products.
Support implementation of Bill of Material changes from Engineering Change Notices and maintain inventory and Bill of Material information to insure accurate generation of parts lists for product supply sources.
- Develop knowledge of Material Requirements Planning by assisting Supply Analysts plan the phase in and/or phase out of products.
Identify unique components for products being phased out or inactivated, preparing mechanisms for tracking inventory of unique components to insure use up plan to minimize excess and/or obsolete inventory is successful.
Monitor product phase-in/out plans to minimize excess or obsolete inventory and issue progress reports during the phase out period.
- Develop an understanding of product life cycle planning including the process of master scheduling, new product introduction, product phase-in/out and inventory planning and provide backup support Production Control Technical Analysts.
- Work to achieve annual inventory reduction and customer service performance targets.
- Adopting new technologies to enhance performance and to leverage knowledge and information for driving competitive advantage.
Fostering an environment where technological innovations are recognized and rewarded.
- Identifying core value-adding processes and maximizing their performance and productivity.
Integrating and streamlining processes throughout the supply chain and ensuring adoption of best maximum efficiency.
- Realizing a sense of urgency around business imperatives and convincing others of that urgency.
Setting aggressive, well-defined goals to meet business challenges and ensuring performance against those goals.
Overcoming obstacles to drive initiatives and actions to closure.
- Promoting an honest and open environment in which information flows freely among all levels of the organization.
Anticipating and meeting the information needs of all relevant constituents.
**Skills**:
- Ability to accept change and adapt to a variety of assignments in a fast paced environment
- Capability for MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word), and Microsoft Outlook
- Ability to be self-directing, manage time and priorities effectively, take initiative, exercise good judgment and manage multiple priorities to meet deadlines
- Effective communication (verbal and written), interpersonal and collaboration skills
- Interest and ability to thrive in a high energy team environment with strong aptitude for interaction