Material Planning Section Manager, Supply Chain | alfanar Electric

Job Purpose

Responsible for overseeing material planning and inventory control activities by managing planning processes, optimizing inventory levels, coordinating with cross-functional stakeholders, and leading the planning team in order to ensure material availability, operational continuity, and alignment with production and business requirements.

Key Accountability Areas

Material Planning Oversight

• Oversee material planning activities to ensure alignment with production schedules and operational requirements
• Review and approve material requirements based on demand forecasts, production plans, and inventory status
• Ensure timely issuance and accuracy of material requisitions to procurement
• Monitor planning parameters and ensure effective execution of material plans

Inventory Control and Optimization

• Monitor stock levels of raw materials, components, and consumables to prevent shortages and overstocking
• Define and control inventory parameters including safety stock, reorder levels, and coverage targets
• Ensure inventory accuracy in coordination with warehouse teams and resolve discrepancies
• Drive optimization of inventory levels in line with cost and service objectives

Stakeholder Coordination and Issue Resolution

• Coordinate with procurement to ensure timely supplier deliveries aligned with production requirements
• Collaborate with production planning to ensure material availability supports manufacturing schedules
• Liaise with sales, logistics, and quality teams to ensure smooth material flow
• Act as escalation point for material planning issues and resolve cross-functional conflicts

Performance Management and Reporting

• Own section KPIs related to material availability, inventory accuracy, and order fulfillment
• Monitor performance against targets and ensure achievement of defined KPIs
• Prepare and review material planning reports and provide insights to management
• Drive corrective actions to improve planning accuracy and operational performance

Risk Management and Continuity Planning

• Identify risks related to material shortages, supplier delays, and forecast inaccuracies
• Develop and implement mitigation plans including safety stock adjustments and alternative sourcing
• Monitor critical materials and ensure continuity of supply to avoid production disruptions

Team Supervision and Development

• Supervise and guide the material planning team to ensure effective execution of responsibilities
• Allocate tasks, monitor performance, and ensure adherence to planning standards
• Support development of team capabilities and enhance planning knowledge and skills
• Promote best practices and continuous improvement within the team

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