Senior Spares & C&A Planner

Permanent

Electrolux Group

Electrolux Group is a leading global appliance company that has shaped living for the better for more than 100 years. We reinvent taste, care and wellbeing experiences for millions of people, always striving to be at the forefront of sustainability in society through our solutions and operations. Under our group of leading appliance brands, including Electrolux, AEG and Frigidaire, we sell household products in around 120 markets every year. In 2023 Electrolux Group had sales of SEK 134 billion and employed 45,000 people around the world. For more information go to www.electroluxgroup.com.

All about the role: 

The Senior Planner will be responsible for strategic planning of Spare Parts, Consumables & Accessories to support our growing aftermarket business and document and enhance processes for the same. You will be working in a team based at our office in Bangkok, Thailand. This role is primarily focused on planning and ordering of material within our internal flows, adapting orders to variable demand while maintaining key KPI’s surrounding availability, inventory and freight costs.
Right at the very beginning of our journey to creating better customer experiences, the value and quality we achieve in planning shapes everything we do. So as a planner for the aftermarket, your negotiation and relationship building skills will be critical to the continued flow of materials to our new and existing customers and consumers.
 

What you'll do:

You will ensure that we have the right material at the right place at the right time and in those odd cases where that is not possible, keep all stakeholders well informed while working on solutions and improved lead-times. Developing and maintaining relationships with all stakeholders and continuously enhance stockholding policies & forecasts to reflect the latest demand patterns. You study order behaviors and drive improvements in the daily processes and as a senior planner you will also ensure they are adequately documented.

In detail, you will: 

• Management of inventory planning for multiple warehouses/countries, with main source of supply from internal flows

• Plan inventory and purchase orders strategically by leveraging all aspects of the planning tool and stockholding policies

• Proactively avoid shortages through Risk of run-out process

• Communicate availability dates (ETA/ETD) with all relevant stakeholders

• Coordinate ad hoc stock-ups for sales promotions or quality campaigns in your warehouse of responsibility

• Planning of initial stock for new product launches

• Manage planning related master data

• Timely updates of performance indicators and actively plan corrective actions to reach targets

• Continuously improve the ways of working

• Drive the centralized planning strategy by ensuring processes are improved, added or removed with clearly quantified results

• Own the process documentation and ensure all changes are reflected adequately

• Lead Kitting Process planning and Kitting Master by coordinating with Master Data team and warehouse operations

• Analyze the result for the KPIs of your Countries' responsibility on a regular basis and take proactive actions to improve them

• Analyze on the Inventory Buyback process (from Countries to Central Distribution Center) when is required

• Act as Customer Service of Northeast Asia Countries (Japan, China, Taiwan and Korea) to be ready for Centralize Planning in next year plan

• Work closely with IT team (SAP) including system testing as a project member to fix and close all issues related to Order Management and Spares Planning to avoid repeating problem

• Create WI (Working Instruction) for all SAP Transactions which is used for Spares Planning at Central Distribution Center and Countries. (Planning, Order Intake, Invoicing, Master Data, Report, etc..) together with Day-to-Day operations in the Demand Planning team

• Ensuring that logistics cost billing from Suppliers is billed timely and accuracy

Qualifications:

• University Degree in Engineering

• Minimum 5 -7 years of relevant work experience in material planning, purchasing or inventory management

• Equipped with strong communication and negotiation skills, you are expected to get your message across to different levels of an organization both internally and externally

• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, strong Excel skills

• You enjoy working in a team environment and understand how your individual work contributes to the overall teamwork

• SAP experience is considered and advantage

• Fluent in English, both written and spoken

Where you'll be: 

You will be based in our Bangkok Office and report to Spares & C&A Planning Manager.  

Benefits highlights:

• Medical & Life Insurance

• Discounts on Electrolux products and services

• Flexible work hours/hybrid work environment

As part of Electrolux, we will continuously invest in you and your development. There are no barriers to where your career could take you. 

Find out more: 

https://www.electroluxgroup.com/en/