Manager Material Requirements Planning

Location: Peterborough

Salary: £49,500 + (depending on experience)

Benefits:

• 25 days annual leave + 8 Bank Holidays
• Up to 10% Bonus
• Contributory pension scheme - Caterpillar will double the employee's contribution Up to 10%
• Contributory share scheme - Caterpillar will match 50% of the employee's contribution
• Optional flexible benefits including access to health and dental care plans, EV car lease, holiday purchase.
• Employee referral bonus

About IPSD:

Caterpillar’s Industrial Power Systems Division (IPSD) designs, tests and manufactures 0.5 to 18L Cat® and Perkins engines that power over 5000 applications including Marine, Petroleum, Industrial Applications, Electric Generators, and Locomotives. Caterpillar’s company strategy includes sustainability as one of four focus areas and IPSD is engaged and actively preparing green energy solutions for the future.

Role Definition:

Managing a material planning team supporting multiple facilities' production requirements, defining processes and structure to optimise efficiency across the team.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinating with multiple functions, such as manufacturing, procurement, etc., to acquire appropriate requirements to meet development and accuracy standards.
• Managing day-to-day activities of material planning staff; supporting them with high complexity and high value component supply.
• Participating in planning inventory and defining optimal inventory levels and adjustment authority; monitoring inventory levels using parameters to mitigate supply risk.
• Coordinating NPI and NSI activities for material planning.
• Lead process improvements and standardisation across the group, and support project work.
• Ensuring compliance with established policies and procedures; implementing loss prevention procedures and practices.

Degree Requirement:

Degree or equivalent experience desired.

Decision Making and Critical Thinking:

• Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
• Applies an assigned technique for critical thinking in a decision-making process.
• Identifies, obtains, and organizes relevant data and ideas.
• Participates in documenting data, ideas, players, stakeholders, and processes.
• Recognizes, clarifies, and prioritises concerns.
• Assists in assessing risks, benefits and consideration of alternatives.

Effective Communications:

• Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviours.
• Delivers helpful feedback that focuses on behaviours without offending the recipient.
• Listens to feedback without defensiveness and uses it for own communication effectiveness.
• Makes oral presentations and writes reports needed for own work.
• Avoids technical jargon when inappropriate.
• Looks for and considers non-verbal cues from individuals and groups.

Inventory Management - MFG:

• Knowledge of processes and methods of inventory management; ability to effectively manage local or distributed inventories of raw materials, work-in-progress and finished goods.
• Follows processes to take stock, release inventory or return into processing; resolves discrepancies.
• Tracks inventory information for a specific product group or location.
• Works with basic tasks of inventory management for a specific location.
• Produces basic inventory management reports for senior staff to reconcile the inventory balances.
• Performs the receiving, ticketing, checking in and distributing of inventory items for a specific location.

Logistics Management:

• Knowledge of logistics and management; ability to follow proper processes and run operations for effective and efficient movement of materials and finished products.
• Assists in the development of process flows to track lead time by activity.
• Uses tools, with guidance, to forecast delivery times, determine costs and assess performance.
• Maintains records of all shipments and invoices using an established system.
• Participates in integrating logistics processes and developing effective networks.
• Works with logistics in a domestic environment.

Performance Management:

• Knowledge of successful performance management techniques; ability to apply organisation’s performance management system, practices and tools to developing and improving individual, team, and organisational performance.
• Identifies opportunities to enhance performance, e.g., practice assignments, training, shadowing.
• Ensures performance goals, checkpoints, and feedback focus on behaviours.
• Provides documented input to formal performance review conducted by manager.
• Observes individual performance and provides fair and objective feedback.
• Uses formal and informal rewards and recognition programmes for employees.

Planning and Organising:

• Knowledge of the process of planning and arranging tasks and resources; ability to plan and organise both time and resources to get things completed while structuring and maintaining work in a systematic and highly methodical way.
• Seeks help to modify priorities as new information surfaces or conditions change.
• Demonstrates the ability to estimate the time and resources required to complete tasks.
• Identifies own key assignments, schedules, and process steps.
• Applies the concept of ‘critical path’ in order to complete work in a timely manner and keep larger tasks on track.

Problem Solving:

• Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognising, anticipating, and resolving organisational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.
• Identifies and documents specific problems and resolution alternatives.
• Examines a specific problem and understands the perspective of each involved stakeholder.
• Develops alternative techniques for assessing accuracy and relevance of information.
• Helps to analyse risks and benefits of alternative approaches and obtain decision on resolution.
• Uses fact-finding techniques and diagnostic tools to identify problems.

Supply Chain Management - MFG:

• Knowledge of functions, principles and techniques used in supply chain management; ability to develop and use strategies, practices and tools for controlling the logistical processes.
• Discusses considerations for integrating partner and supplier transactions.
• Recognises software systems or components used to manage supply chain.
• Summarises supply chain considerations for different types of products or components.
• Participates in supply chain analysis and uses it to spot trends and improvement opportunities.
• Works with a specific part of supply chain management process.

This position requires working onsite five days a week.

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.