VIE - Material Planning
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Alstom
West Mifflin, PA, US
Summary
The role involves managing purchase requisitions and material planning documents while collaborating with internal and external suppliers. Key duties include maintaining master data accuracy, analyzing supplier confirmations, and organizing regular reviews to ensure delivery performance.
Job Description
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, 80,000 colleagues lead the way to greener and smarter mobility worldwide, connecting cities as we reduce carbon and replace cars.
Could you be the Materials Planner we’re looking for?
Your future role
As a Materials Planner, you will 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
All about you
We value passion and attitude over experience. That’s why we don’t expect you to have every single skill. Instead, we’ve listed some that we think will help you succeed and grow in this role:
- Bachelor's degree in a related field
- 2+ years of experience in Procurement and Supply Chain
- Experience or understanding of demand planning processes
- Knowledge of ERP techniques and supplier collaboration tools
- Basic understanding of Lean Manufacturing principles
- Proven experience working in SAP (preferred)
- An APICS certification (preferred)
Things you’ll enjoy
Join us on a life-long transformative journey – the rail industry is here to stay, so you can grow and develop new skills and experiences throughout your career. You’ll also:
- Work with new security standards for rail signalling
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams and supportive colleagues
- Contribute to innovative projects
You don’t need to be a train enthusiast to thrive with us. We guarantee that when you step onto one of our trains with your friends or family, you’ll be proud. If you’re up for the challenge, we’d love to hear from you!
Important to note
As a global business, we’re an equal-opportunity employer that celebrates diversity across the 63 countries we operate in. We’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace for everyone.
