As a Supply Chain Planner at VAT, you will coordinate planning activities for our advanced vacuum technology material. Your role involves close collaboration with customer order and production planning, ensuring timely procurement, monitoring delivery dates, managing inventory, and maintaining material master data in Microsoft Dynamics 365. Furthermore, you will be responsible for operational performance management with our supply base in close collaboration with our strategic category management. Your tactical and analytical skills, coupled with your experience in supply planning and procurement, will be crucial in supporting our mission to deliver innovative and high-performance vacuum technology solutions.

YOUR CHALLENGES: 

• Coordination of planning activities: Plan and coordinate supply activities for our vacuum technology materials.
• Close cooperation with order and production planning: Collaborate with order and production teams worldwide and coordinate supply to global manufacturing sites.
• Timely procurement of products: Ensure timely procurement of materials from suppliers.
• Purchasing: Perform daily checks and release planned purchase orders. Follow up on delivery date confirmations for unconfirmed purchase orders.
• Delivery dates coordination and monitoring: Coordinate, monitor, and ensure compliance with confirmed delivery dates on the supplier side.
• Supplier performance management: Continuously monitor operational supplier performance metrics. Identify and implement improvement needs and measures jointly with the supplier. Timely update of supplier confirmations and commit delivery dates in Dynamics 365.
• Master data cleanliness: Ensure and maintain material master data correctly displayed in Dynamics 365.
• Inventory optimization: Manage stock levels, availability and calculate/optimize inventory parameters as such material management methods, min, max and reorder point levels.
• Active participation in process optimization: Engage in process optimization projects within supply chain planning.
• Expedite purchase order/escalation management: Align and prioritize with suppliers in case of urgent material needs (e.g., urgent orders, quality issues, etc.).

YOUR COMPETENCES:

• Higher education with a focus on supply chain planning, procurement and logistics or equivalent
• 3 years of professional experience in a comparable position, ideally in supply planning and procurement
• Familiar with inventory management, reporting, KPIs, etc.
• Very good user knowledge of MS Office products, especially Excel; experience with ERP systems (ideally Microsoft Dynamics 365, Finance and Operations)
• Strategic, analytical, process-oriented thinking, and structured work
• Independent, flexible, and persistent personality with assertiveness, negotiation skills, and organizational talent
• Experience in project management is an advantage
• Very good German and good English skills, both written and spoken