Director of Materials Planning

At Honeywell, we look for people driven by a desire to contribute, be challenged and grow. Our people make Honeywell a special company and are a key competitive advantage.
Honeywell International is a $37 billion diversified technology and manufacturing global leader. Honeywell has more than 113,000 employees in 120 countries around the world and has a demonstrated heritage of innovation and achievement.
A new position has been created within the Safety and Productivity Solutions business for an ambitious Materials Planning/Management Professional. You will report to the VP of Planning, SPS to create the processes and tools required to deploy a material planning team across the five GBEs within the division. 

As the COE Director of Materials Planning, you will have the ownership of the Network Materials Planning strategy and processes to enable execution within the businesses. You will support your VP Planning to set the vision and goals for your Materials Planning function and indirectly manage the people and processes to achieve this.
You will partner with the Corporate COE and SME’s to deploy the Honeywell Global Design Model (GDM) and facilitate the full adoption of Rapid Response planning tools across your network.

You will own the monthly Materials Planning process cycle for your network of sites and ensure raw materials replenishment plans align to the network Supply & Production Plans and achieve maximum customer satisfaction and ensure working capital remains within the business goals. You will ensure the network Materials Requirements Plans (MRP) will satisfy the network Constrained Master Production Schedules (MPS). You will partner with the Production Planning and Buying leaders to ensure materials are delivered to the sites/network on time whilst achieving the ISC goals of cost control and working capital targets.

You will be closely involved in product lifecycle events and transitions to ensure the network raw materials replenishment strategy delivers on the product portfolio vitality goals. You will partner with the production planning and buying leaders to create and execute your site/network materials replenishment plans. You will attend monthly SIOP Supply Review meetings at the site/network level to approve the site/network production plans and to present these and the associated risks and mitigating plans to the Business leadership in the Supply, Reconciliation and Exec SIOP meetings. You will demonstrate how the site/network Production plans satisfy the site/network supply plans.

You will create and drive a positive working environment and culture of continuous improvement throughout your organization to achieve the best possible outcomes. You will lead the development of a matrixed team to increase their skills and capability in readiness for internal progression and succession.
The successful candidate must be capable of translating objectives into a deliverable strategy to achieve business goals and create a competitive advantage of the product portfolio. Focusing on building a world-class team, utilizing and deploying Lean Six Sigma techniques, driving continuous improvement activities and achievement of superior performance across all KPIs (Key Performance Initiatives).


Job Responsibilities:
Defining the Vision & Driving Strategy for Raw Materials Planning and Execution

Driving Transformation initiatives and deployment of the Honeywell GDM and RR adoption

Lead and establishing a culture of continuous improvement and process excellence

Build a culture of highly skilled and talented professionals in preparation for progression within Honeywell

Oversee and manage the Raw Materials Planning function and process

Drives the Implementation of the GBE and site RM PFEP Process

Lead the execution team, once established, in a regular cadence to ensure data accuracy and integrity. 

The COE Director will support a team responsible for:

• Sets Stocking and Replenishment Strategies Push vs Pull to support Maximum Service with Minimum Inventories to meet AOP
• Own and ensure material master accuracy
• Cycle Count & Inventory Record Accuracy
• Ensuring materials plan is accurate and current
• Define and maintain Quota arrangements/Multiple sourced items
• Identify MOQ/EOQ/Lot sizes outside of entitlement and working with Strategic Sourcing to resolve
• Work closely with Commodity management to address supply availability for constrained commodities and provide recommended solutions
• Active participant in std transition processes
• Identify and solve problems in and out of the immediate work area independently and ensure materials are ordered and in stock to meet supply requirement
• Lead/participate continuous improvement projects/kaizens
• Continuously improve material management processes to drive better business results
• Identify material related issues and work with procurement to resolve material constraints
• Coordinate engineering change activities with procurement and/or Honeywell sites