Manager. Material & Production Planning , LV | alfanar Electric

Job Purpose

Lead and oversee material and production planning functions to ensure optimal resource utilization, inventory efficiency, and on-time delivery, while aligning operational plans with business objectives and driving continuous improvement.

Key Accountability Areas

Material Planning Strategy & Governance

• Lead the development and implementation of material planning strategies aligned with business objectives and operational requirements.
• Oversee the validation of material requirements based on sales forecasts, production plans, and inventory policies.
• Ensure effective coordination with procurement to secure material availability in line with production and delivery commitments.
• Establish and enforce planning standards, policies, and governance frameworks across the function.

Production Planning & Capacity Management

• Direct the development and optimization of production plans to ensure efficient utilization of plant capacity and on-time delivery.
• Oversee production scheduling activities, ensuring alignment with resource availability and operational priorities.
• Monitor overall production performance, proactively addressing constraints, bottlenecks, and capacity risks.
• Drive initiatives to enhance planning accuracy, scheduling efficiency, and throughput optimization.

Inventory Strategy & Control

• Define and manage inventory strategies to maintain optimal stock levels across raw materials, WIP, and finished goods.
• Oversee inventory performance, ensuring alignment with working capital targets and service level requirements.
• Approve and implement inventory optimization initiatives to reduce excess, obsolescence, and stockouts.
• Ensure governance and accuracy of inventory data in coordination with warehouse and relevant stakeholders.

Cross-Functional Leadership & S&OP Alignment

• Lead cross-functional coordination with sales, procurement, warehouse, production, and quality to ensure integrated planning.
• Represent the function in S&OP processes, providing strategic input on capacity, material constraints, and demand-supply balancing.
• Drive alignment between commercial forecasts and operational capabilities to support business growth and service levels.

Performance Management & Reporting

• Define and monitor KPIs related to material availability, production adherence, inventory health, and delivery performance.
• Review performance trends and drive corrective actions to ensure achievement of operational and business targets.
• Provide regular executive-level reporting, highlighting key risks, performance gaps, and improvement initiatives.

Risk Management & Continuous Improvement

• Establish proactive risk management practices to mitigate disruptions in material supply and production planning.
• Lead root cause analysis for major planning and execution issues, ensuring sustainable corrective actions.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives across planning processes, systems, and tools to enhance efficiency and reliability.

Role Accountability

HR Proficiency:

• Ability to recruit, recognize and cultivate high performers and expose them in order to create a robust second line of management.
• Ability to recognize low performers and guide them to improve or release them.
• Ability to treat subordinates equally without any discrimination.
• Assessment criteria of subordinates is performance that leads to planned results.
• Ensure availability of delegation of authority matrix to have sufficient delegations as per company policy.

Responsibility:

• Must take full responsibility for his operation as per the job description and the required deliverables from this position, taking into consideration the general company guidelines.
• Able to anticipate problems and make the necessary proactive steps to prevent them
• Ability to take necessary and proper timely decisions.

Delivery:

• Deliver the required results in timely manner with required quality and cost.
• Making a Tangible Difference:
• Must make a tangible difference to his area of operation. and exceed business expectations.

Business Planning and Performance:

• Able to transform the corporate goals into business plans.
• Able to Plan, follow-up and execute those plans, whether they are annual or development plans.
• Monitor the plan performance and initiate action to strengthen results and take the corrective action accordingly.
• Provide periodic work progress reports.
• Responsible for monitoring and controlling budgets and expenses to achieve the optimum cost efficiency.

Organizational Development:

• Develop the organizational structure according to the current requirements taking into consideration future and development plans.
• Ensure availability of job descriptions for all job roles and deployment.

Business Process Improvements:

• Develop, coordinate well-defined written systems, policies, procedures, and seek automations opportunities as much as possible.
• Should be conversant and able to navigate through IT solutions especially those relevant to his job and business.
• Promote the automated systems and using them fully, to spread its culture.

Quality:

• Quality is considered as alfanar’s prime competitive advantage as such, managers are expected to act accordingly.

Adaptation:

• Adapt to new and alternative techniques, technologies, management structures, and business models.

Health, Safety and Environment:

• Ensure a safe, secure, and legal work environment as per the standard regulations.

Academic Qualification

Work Experience

Technical / Functional Competencies