What are the responsibilities and job description for the Planning and Purchasing Manager position at Lumitex?
About Lumitex
Join us as we strive to become THE global leader in medical device lighting and Improve Life with Light! For nearly 40 years, Lumitex has been at the forefront of revolutionizing medical lighting solutions. We collaborate with our customers to integrate light into applications or leverage light for the treatment or prevention of specific medical conditions. We assist them in overcoming their most complex lighting challenges, delivering customized solutions, and establishing ourselves as their trusted lighting experts.
We believe that ideas can change the world, and our customers should not be bound by technical limitations. Our comprehensive range of services, including product development, engineering expertise, and lighting system production, combine to optimize light and improve the standard of patient care .
Life at Lumitex begins with our Mission to Improve Life with Light! This guiding mission shapes our daily work, inspiring collaboration, fostering innovation, and ultimately making the world a brighter place. We are currently seeking a Planning and Purchasing Manager to join our team and play a pivotal role in our journey. Come grow with us and light your own path!
Job purpose
This role will focus on developing and executing schedules and forecasts to ensure the availability of the right volumes of materials, goods and products, inbound to the business, from its supply chain partners and suppliers.
Ensures that material planning processes are in place that enable operational and production continuity. Takes the coordinating lead, working closely with internal and external parties to ensure supply of materials is in place to satisfy production requirements.
Delivers efficient, effective and flexible solutions to meet production requirements. This role has significant budgetary accountability given its impact to purchasing, inventory and production.
Duties and responsibilities
- Ensure that material scheduling strategy and processes are in place and work effectively to ensure material supply meets production requirements with minimum stock levels, while optimizing costs
- Take ownership of material planning issues that arise, including over or under delivery and take any follow up actions especially in the event of material shortages that affect production
- Seek and recommend solutions to overcome issues arising to meet production requirements and address operational risks
- Design, develop and implement flexible solutions to aid business efficiency, drive process improvements and add value
- Ensure that the Material Requirements Planning system (MRP) is effective and that data is accurate and up to date, resolve any issues as required and ensure consistency is practiced and process
- Ensure integrity of Bill of Materials (BOM) and inventory accuracy and manage and control inventory levels and movements
- Take overall responsibility for obsolete parts process and ensure business is left with minimum liability and minimal waste
- Ensure strategic and operational information, reports and metrics are available as required, report on achievement of targets and identify any corrective actions
- Contribute to the creation and implementation of best practice policies, processes and procedures to aid and improve operational performance.
- Lead internal and external relationships to ensure consistent, timely and effective communication regarding material availability
- Collaborate with stakeholders on product change requests and review and communicate the impact on material planning and schedules
- Support new business initiatives and projects and contribute to review meetings. Ensure effective material planning implementation takes place relating to the changes
- Design, develop and implement processes and work with suppliers on continuous improvement initiatives
Qualifications
Education / Experience
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Physical Requirements
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Conclusion
This job description is intended to convey information essential to understanding the scope of the job and the general nature and level of work performed within this job. However, this job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties, qualifications or physical demands associated with the position.
Lumitex is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. Lumitex complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment.
