Job Summary:

The Production Planning Specialist is primarily responsible for supporting Asia sourcing teams (in Shanghai and Vietnam) on identifying and professionally managing any potential risks that will impact the on-time delivery at the vendors located in Vietnam and other Southeast Countries. The Production Planning Specialist should take the lead on good production planning to secure key programs successfully launch in the store; review vendor production capacity for corresponding solution; coach vendor factories to well utilize meaningful tools to optimize inventory performance for company and vendor factory sides.

This position also needs to explore PO lead time reduction opportunities through vendor PO handling process analysis; The Production Planning Specialist needs to be pro-actively seeking and identifying vendor / items opportunities including the manufacturing process improvement.

Job Responsibilities:

Production Planning

• Systematically manage projects through effective process. Keep consistence and make prioritization in daily work.
• Proactively conduct regular communications. Work with sourcing teams and educate vendors to build up production planning knowledge. Leverage and make effective use of resources.
• Take initiatives to early involve in high-risky programs identified. Professionally manage the capacity risk followed by flawless execution.
• Help vendors leverage tools to optimize production planning and secure on-time delivery

Capacity Improvement

• Capable of seeking and identifying opportunities. Take initiatives to guide sourcing team to drive projects. Take lead of launch accordingly.
• Work with sourcing teams to conduct demand and selected vendor factory capacity gap analysis to identify the areas which have improvement opportunity
• Validate vendor improvement plan implantation progress and communicate with sourcing teams
• Help vendors leverage tools to optimize capacity/inventory planning and secure on-time delivery
• Production/warehouse capacity improvement

Production Efficiency Improvement

• Align with sourcing teams to coach selected vendor factories production efficiency improvement for related manufacturing cost reduction
• Evaluate vendor partners PO lead time processes and explore the improvement opportunity to reduce the shipment lead-time and execute it with secured on-time performance.

Qualifications:

• Colleges degree in mechanical engineering, industry engineering or another related major
• 3+ years related experience in industry engineering or factory operations
• Good knowledge of manufacturing process, raw material experience and product cost analysis
• Board understanding on product development, sourcing, quality management, logistic related process
• Effective communication skills to collaborate with others
• Independent work & self-management capability
• Strong problem solving, related project management skills
• Good statistics, quantitative and analytical skill, Excel or Access competency to do basic analysis work
• Oral communication skills in Chinese is preferred, written communication skills in English.
• LEAN/Kaizen methodology/tools are preferred
• Quality assurance knowledge on ISO9001 is preferred

Contact: Phuong Le - 0903432692 - phuong.le@peopleprofilers.com