Acara Solutions has an opening for a Material Planner for Alstom Transportation in New Castle, DE.
At Alstom, we understand transport networks and what moves people. From high-speed trains, metros, monorails, and trams, to turnkey systems, services, infrastructure, signalling and digital mobility, we offer our diverse customers the broadest portfolio in the industry. Every day, 74,000 colleagues lead the way to greener and smarter mobility worldwide, connecting cities as we reduce carbon and replace cars.
In this role you will be a key contributor to multi-million- dollar projects. Your success will be determined by your ability to deliver results in a challenging supply chain environment. To do this, you will need to bring a well-developed skill set of organization, analytical skills, as well as exceptional communication skills.
As a Material Planner, you will be collaborating with suppliers on numerous innovative projects. Some of your key responsibilities will include:
- Managing purchase requisitions for material planning documents creation with internal suppliers.
- Owning the follow up with Procurement at the purchase requisition level maturity for launching material planning documents with external suppliers.
- Ensuring and updating the accuracy of material planning master data.
- Creating the material planning documents & respective source list and quota management.
- Communicating the material planning documents to suppliers and follow suppliers' confirmation.
- Analyzing suppliers' confirmations vs. Alstom needs and evaluate the risk/impact anticipation on production/projects.
- Identifying priorities associated with risk/impact anticipation and set up recovery actions.
- Organizing and maintaining regular reviews with suppliers in order to check the status of deliveries and their delivery performances.
- Other duties may be assigned.