Staff Material Planner/buyer

Cutting-edge technology. Over 200 million connected devices. Insightful services. Itron helps our customers better manage electricity, gas and water now and into the future.

The **Material Planner/Buyer** is responsible for purchasing negotiated components and raw materials from vendors, ensuring that facilities have parts in quantity and dates required to meet with production schedules without any extra cost.

The Material Planner/Buyer relies on instructions and pre-established guidelines to perform the functions of the job, works under immediate supervision, and typically reports to the Manager Material Planner/Buyer.

**Job Duties & Responsibilities**:

- Review and analyze MRP action messages on a regular basis to support factory material requirements and avoid shortages:

- Place purchase order based on MRP recommendations, according to lead time and with regards to Procurement sourcing strategy
- Actively monitor, pull in or push out POs to support factory requirements and revenue plan while maintaining optimum inventory level.
- Coordinate purchase order deliveries with suppliers and factory schedulers
- Confirm dock date accuracy, update POs with supplier delivery date (Promise Date) to get reliable MRP and measure supplier performance.
- Reschedule past due purchase orders and alert factory schedulers when vendor inventory will not arrive on time to support the production schedule.
- Request expedites from vendors if relevant to avoid factory line down.
- Provide systemic and automated frequent long-term forecast to assigned suppliers.
- Identify material constraints in case of demand forecast upside/downside or material allocation and escalate accordingly.
- Issue Red Alert to escalate major shortage risks impacting revenue.
- Review and keep item planning attributes related to MRP up to date (planner code, safety stock,)
- Help on supplier corrective actions and may participate to PDCA for purchasing issues.
- As buyer and main contact with suppliers, get notified on receipt, invoice and price discrepancies and help to reassign to relevant internal departments.
- Help to reconcile inventory discrepancies, help to register count sheets for physical inventory or cycle counting.
- Support supplier RMA process from a material planning and PO (return) perspective

**Key Results**:

- Manage and continuously review the MRP system, to ensure it is accurate, up to date and consistently meets the requirements of the business.
- Purchase materials in line with inventory targets.
- Timely and effective communication of forecasts and purchase orders to suppliers.
- Assist with regular re-negotiations of terms of business/service agreements and performance evaluation with suppliers, taking corrective action as required.
- Escalate issues - shortage through material red alert process.

**Required Experience**:

- 5+ years of related experience in material planning, inventory management, risk management, MRP, scheduling, and supply chain analytics
- Experience working with Tier 1 suppliers and/or contract manufacturers

**Preferred Experience**:

- Root Cause Analysis
- Experience in the electronics industry

**Education**:Bachelor's degree in related field or equivalent experience.

**Travel**:1 - 10%

**Physical Demands**:This is a typical office job, with no special physical requirements or unusual work environment.

Itron enables utilities and cities to safely, securely and reliably deliver critical infrastructure solutions. We provide smart networks, software, services, meters, and sensors to better manage electricity, gas, water and city services. We are dedicated to creating a more resourceful world.

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