Material Planner

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Your Role and Responsibilities

You will support the development of the planning and fulfillment-related processes, skills, and tools. Supports performance improvement, including customer on-time delivery and lead time, ensuring adherence to inventory targets and supply plan optimization.

- Work model: #LI-Hybrid

In this role, you'll help run what runs the world by taking on meaningful work that drives real impact, as you will be accountable for:

• Executing daily, plant-level Materials Requirement Planning (MRP) to create and managing production requirements to meet the production delivery schedules. Monitoring schedule adherence, identifying key root causes for deviation, and taking follow-up improvement action.

• Supporting Planning & Fulfillment team in aligning material availability to production targets being responsible for stock profile and segmenting the portfolio of materials through an ABC/XYZ analysis, product lifecycle management, defining inventory policies according to this segmentation

• Collaborating with Buyers for obtaining the best possible supplier performance in terms of supplier on-time delivery, MOQ, quality, lead time, and flexibility.

• Supporting organization in reaching inventory targets and ensuring adequate replenishment of inventory through purchase orders.

• Managing MRP exception messages on a daily basis; supporting cycle counting and/or year-end inventory counting.

Qualifications for the Role

• Degree in Management Engineering or Mechanical Engineering;

• Knowledge of SAP;

• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office (in particular on Microsoft Excel) and data analysis tools (Power BI or similar are considered a plus);

• Ownership, problem solving attitude and proactive approach;

• Teamwork attitude, good communication skills and courage complete the profile.

• You are at ease communicating in Italian and English, both written and spoken

Benefits

Locally, you can count on:

• Competitive compensation: Attractive salary packages and performance bonuses.

• Corporate welfare: Access to a wide range of services and personal well-being support.

• Career development: Structured career paths, individual development plans, opportunities for internal mobility, including international roles, technical and managerial training programs, mentoring and access to global learning platforms

• Flexibility and work-life balance: Flexible working hours, hybrid work options, and a strong focus on work-life integration.

• Employee Support: free services like psychological help, wellness coaching, and emotional support for employees and their families.

• Parental Leave: at least 12 weeks of fully paid leave for primary caregivers and 4 weeks for secondary caregivers, promoting DEI values.

• Meal allowance: Access to canteen or ticket restaurant is provided to support daily lunch expenses.

More about us

ABB's Distribution Solutions Division facilitates the efficient and reliable distribution, protection and control of power by improving electric power quality while strengthening the resilience of the grid. The Division offers segment-specific products and solutions that largely serve utilities, industry and infrastructure segments, often providing the requisite medium-voltage link between high-voltage transmission systems and low-voltage users. With ABB Ability enabled connected solutions at its core, the offering includes medium-voltage air- and gas-insulated switchgear (1 to 66 kilovolts), indoor and outdoor circuit breakers, reclosers, fuses, contactors, relays, instrument transformers, sensors, motor control centers, as well as low-voltage switchgear for the ANSI standard markets.

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