Public summary
Seeking a hands-on, data-driven Material Planner to manage end-to-end material readiness for hardware manufacturing product lines. Responsibilities include converting demand forecasts into supply plans, coordinating supplier performance, managing BOM changes, supporting new product introductions, optimizing inventory, and ensuring uninterrupted production flow. Requires extensive cross-functional collaboration between Engineering, Quality, Production, and Supply Chain teams. Proficiency in ERP/MRP systems such as SAP S4/Hana and MES systems is essential. The role demands supplier management and expediting skills, advanced spreadsheet capabilities, strong prioritization under pressure, and business fluent English. German language skills are a plus but not required. Permanent employment with varied responsibilities and strong commitment to equal opportunity.
Location and work setup
- Location
- Munich
- Remote status
- On-site
- German requirement signal
- No German Required Detected
- Detected job language
- English
Responsibilities
Own end-to-end material readiness for assigned product lines, including planning and tracking purchase orders, expediting or deferring as needed, and preventing or resolving shortages in coordination with Commodity Buyers. Convert demand forecasts, production schedules, and new product introduction builds into executable supply plans using ERP/MRP. Maintain accurate parameters such as lead times, lot sizes, and safety stocks. Identify long lead items and initiate advanced procurement. Drive supplier performance by monitoring on-time delivery, lead time adherence, and risk mitigation; escalate and implement recovery plans as required. Manage Bill of Materials (BOM) changes and engineering updates to ensure accuracy and involve Commodity Buyers accordingly. Support NPIs and production ramp-ups by aligning BOMs, builds, and capacity with operations and engineering. Optimize inventory levels while maintaining service levels, proposing parameter changes and pull systems like Kanban/JIT where appropriate. Monitor and communicate material status, conduct shortage and commitment reporting, and facilitate daily meetings. Maintain accurate master data matching physical flow and ensure supplier selection involvement from Supply Chain Management.
Qualifications
Extensive experience in cross-functional project management involving Engineering, Quality, Production, and Supply Chain teams. Proven ability to run material status meetings to manage R&D and serial production start-ups. Strong technical capability to manage requirements discussions among Suppliers, Engineers, and Buyers, including ability to interpret drawings. Advanced proficiency in spreadsheet tools with high attention to data accuracy and organization. Profound knowledge of ERP systems such as SAP S4/Hana combined with MES systems, comfortable managing multi-level BOMs. Demonstrated experience in supplier management and expediting, with strong prioritization skills under time pressure. Track record of preventing and resolving shortages while meeting production schedules. Business fluent in English; German is an advantage but not mandatory.