Principle Duties and Responsibilities:
Essential Functions:
- Show superior technical skill and competence in performing the planning, procurement, logistics and inventory management of parts throughout the business unit and make recommendation for efficiency improvements.
- Apply sound judgment, experience and specialized supply chain management knowledge to meet performance metrics.
- Demonstrate proficiency to anticipate emerging trends; understand their potential impact to the business and make recommendations for mitigating risk.
- Analyze key performance indicators to ensure supply chain service level goals are achieved and maintained.
- Demonstrate understanding of the financial and logistical impact of inventory investment decisions across the business unit.
- Perform lifecycle planning on rotable and perishable inventory items as required.
- Prepare recommendations for changes to supply chain tactical plans in response to changing business requirements.
- Assist in determining whether excess inventory is subject to re-distribution, sale or disposal.
- Engage with members of other functional areas to understand problems relating to shortages, distribution, customer provisioning, service center demand, and over-the-counter sales. Recommend and implement solutions.
- Support change management objectives.
- Generate stakeholder confidence.
Additional Functions:
- Develop replenishment plans which highlight future inventory imbalances. Take appropriate actions to re-balance inventory levels while minimizing associated logistics costs. .
- Prepare daily, weekly and monthly reports pertaining to current status of group/individual workload, inventory levels, associated logistics considerations and overall customer fill rate. .
- Review engineering drawings, vendor part catalogs, and purchased on assembly items to determine initial spares requirements in support of new and existing product lines. .
- Complete audits as appropriate to area of specialization, identify discrepancies and recommend and implement solutions. .
- Train team members and impart business knowledge, skills and experience. .
- Participate in cross functional teams. .
- Demonstrate ability and breadth of knowledge beyond area of specialization or expertise. .
- Limited travel may be required, as appropriate to area of specialization. .
Perform other duties as assigned.
Other Requirements:
- Experience in demand planning and managing inventories across distribution networks.
- Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software experience strongly preferred.
- Experience with aircraft parts and regulations preferred.
- Must be proficient in Microsoft Products such as Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
This job requires one to be able to read, write, speak, and understand the English language.