An exciting Production Planning Specialist job has arisen in a leading firm in Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam.

About the Production Planning Specialist Role:

The Production Planning Specialist is primarily responsible for supporting sourcing teams identifying and professionally managing any potential risks that will impact the on-time delivery at the vendors located in Vietnam and other Southeast countries.

Key Responsibilities:

• Systematically manage projects through effective process. Keep consistence and make prioritisation in daily work
• Proactively conduct regular communications. Work with sourcing teams and educate vendors to build up production planning knowledge. Leverage and make effective use of resources
• Take initiatives to early involve in high-risky programs identified. Professionally manage the capacity risk followed by flawless execution
• Help vendors leverage tools to optimise production planning and secure on-time delivery capacity improvement
• Capable of seeking and identifying opportunities. Take initiatives to guide sourcing team to drive projects. Take lead of launch accordingly
• Work with sourcing teams to conduct demand and selected vendor factory capacity gap analysis to identify the areas which have improvement opportunity
• Validate vendor improvement plan implantation progress and communicate with sourcing teams
• Help vendors leverage tools to optimise capacity/inventory planning and secure on-time delivery - Production/warehouse capacity improvement production efficiency improvement
• Align with sourcing teams to coach selected vendor factories production efficiency improvement for related manufacturing cost reduction
• Evaluate vendor partner’s PO lead time processes and explore the improvement opportunity to reduce the shipment lead-time and execute it with secured on-time performance

To succeed in this role, you must have good communication skills in English.

Key Requirements:

• College’s degree in mechanical engineering, industry engineering or another related major
• Three years related experience in industry engineering or factory operations
• Good knowledge of manufacturing process, raw material experience and product cost analysis
• Board understanding on product development, sourcing, quality management, logistic related process
• Effective communication skills to collaborate with others
• Independent work & self-management capability
• Strong problem solving, related project management skills
• Good statistics, quantitative and analytical skill, Excel or Access competency to do basic analysis work
• Oral communication skills in Chinese is preferred, written communication skills in English
• LEAN/Kaizen methodology/tools are preferred
• Quality assurance knowledge on ISO9001 is preferred
• We prefer Chinese speaker, but it’s also acceptable if the candidate has strong capability with fluent in English

This leading company needs no introduction and is recognised as the leader in their field of expertise. The culture is demanding but if you are confident and have a can-do attitude the potential rewards are significant.

If you are driven and looking for a new challenge, this is the role for you.

Apply today.

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