About this role
<p>.</p><div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px">Job Purpose</H2> </div><div><p>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.</p></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px">Key Accountability Areas</H2> </div><div><p>Material Planning Oversight</p> <ul> <li>Oversee material planning activities to ensure alignment with production schedules and operational requirements</li> <li>Review and approve material requirements based on demand forecasts, production plans, and inventory status</li> <li>Ensure timely issuance and accuracy of material requisitions to procurement</li> <li>Monitor planning parameters and ensure effective execution of material plans</li> </ul> <p>Inventory Control and Optimization</p> <ul> <li>Monitor stock levels of raw materials, components, and consumables to prevent shortages and overstocking</li> <li>Define and control inventory parameters including safety stock, reorder levels, and coverage targets</li> <li>Ensure inventory accuracy in coordination with warehouse teams and resolve discrepancies</li> <li>Drive optimization of inventory levels in line with cost and service objectives</li> </ul> <p>Stakeholder Coordination and Issue Resolution</p> <ul> <li>Coordinate with procurement to ensure timely supplier deliveries aligned with production requirements</li> <li>Collaborate with production planning to ensure material availability supports manufacturing schedules</li> <li>Liaise with sales, logistics, and quality teams to ensure smooth material flow</li> <li>Act as escalation point for material planning issues and resolve cross-functional conflicts</li> </ul> <p>Performance Management and Reporting</p> <ul> <li>Own section KPIs related to material availability, inventory accuracy, and order fulfillment</li> <li>Monitor performance against targets and ensure achievement of defined KPIs</li> <li>Prepare and review material planning reports and provide insights to management</li> <li>Drive corrective actions to improve planning accuracy and operational performance</li> </ul> <p>Risk Management and Continuity Planning</p> <ul> <li>Identify risks related to material shortages, supplier delays, and forecast inaccuracies</li> <li>Develop and implement mitigation plans including safety stock adjustments and alternative sourcing</li> <li>Monitor critical materials and ensure continuity of supply to avoid production disruptions</li> </ul> <p>Team Supervision and Development</p> <ul> <li>Supervise and guide the material planning team to ensure effective execution of responsibilities</li> <li>Allocate tasks, monitor performance, and ensure adherence to planning standards</li> <li>Support development of team capabilities and enhance planning knowledge and skills</li> <li>Promote best practices and continuous improvement within the team</li> </ul> <p> </p></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px">Role Accountability</H2> </div><div><p>HR Proficiency:</p> <ul> <li>Ability to recruit, recognize and cultivate high performers and expose them in order to create a robust second line of management.</li> <li>Ability to recognize low performers and guide them to improve or release them.</li> <li>Ability to treat subordinates equally without any discrimination.</li> <li>Assessment criteria of subordinates is performance that leads to planned results.</li> <li>Ensure availability of delegation of authority matrix to have sufficient delegations as per company policy.</li> </ul> <p>Responsibility:</p> <ul> <li>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.</li> <li>Able to anticipate problems and make the necessary proactive steps to prevent them</li> <li>Ability to take necessary and proper timely decisions.</li> </ul> <p>Delivery:</p> <ul> <li>Deliver the required results in timely manner with required quality and cost.</li> <li>Making a Tangible Difference:</li> <li>Must make a tangible difference to his area of operation. and exceed business expectations.</li> </ul> <p>Business Planning and Performance:</p> <ul> <li>Able to transform the corporate goals into business plans.</li> <li>Able to Plan, follow-up and execute those plans, whether they are annual or development plans.</li> <li>Monitor the plan performance and initiate action to strengthen results and take the corrective action accordingly.</li> <li>Provide periodic work progress reports.</li> <li>Responsible for monitoring and controlling budgets and expenses to achieve the optimum cost efficiency.</li> </ul> <p>Organizational Development:</p> <ul> <li>Develop the organizational structure according to the current requirements taking into consideration future and development plans.</li> <li>Ensure availability of job descriptions for all job roles and deployment.</li> </ul> <p>Business Process Improvements:</p> <ul> <li>Develop, coordinate well-defined written systems, policies, procedures, and seek automations opportunities as much as possible.</li> <li>Should be conversant and able to navigate through IT solutions especially those relevant to his job and business.</li> <li>Promote the automated systems and using them fully, to spread its culture.</li> </ul> <p>Quality:</p> <ul> <li>Quality is considered as alfanar’s prime competitive advantage as such, managers are expected to act accordingly.</li> </ul> <p>Adaptation:</p> <ul> <li>Adapt to new and alternative techniques, technologies, management structures, and business models.</li> </ul> <p>Health, Safety and Environment:</p> <ul> <li>Ensure a safe, secure, and legal work environment as per the standard regulations.</li> </ul> </div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px">Academic Qualification</H2> </div><div><div>Bachelor Degree in Electrical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering</div></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px">Work Experience</H2> </div><div><div>6 to 10 Years</div></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px">Technical / Functional Competencies</H2> </div><div><div>Materials Flow Analysis</div><div>Material Requirements Planning (MRP/MRPII)</div></div></div></div>