Planning & Fulfillment Manager

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Your role and responsibilities

In this role, you will lead Supply Planning, Inventory Management, Order Handling, and Resource Management in the local business unit.

You will drive planning initiatives to improve customer on time delivery, and lead-time, to be accountable for inventory and supply plan adherence responsible for reporting resource utilization. In addition, you will lead local order handling and customer excellence team in managing front-end priorities and communication.

The work model for the role is: Onsite

You will be mainly accountable for:
* Owner of the site supply planning process. Provides visibility of supply capacity and local supply objectives into the Hub/PG S&OP process. Provides feedback into S&OP process of site's ability to support the demand plan; Establishes and maintains finished-good inventory management processes in line with Group/Division/Business Unit instructions. Is accountable for finished-good inventory within the site and driving inventory optimization projects within the site.
* Run a short-term planning process or S&OE process, connecting planning with execution. Coordinate an appropriate response to unplanned events. Support the profitable execution of customer orders, in coordination with project management, engineering, manufacturing, and procurement; Leads local order management and customer excellence teams, responsible for front-end sales and customer communication. Will ensure proper prioritization with the customers and ensure successful front-end communication.
* Leads/contributes to cross-functional initiatives for optimizing customer on-time delivery, lead-time, inventory, resource utilization, and forecast accuracy. Uses lean 6 sigma tools whenever applicable. Collaborate with other units in the end-to-end supply chain.
* Leads local planning function and ensures (with HR Manager support) that local planning and order management teams are properly organized, staffed, and skilled and directed. Guides, motivates and develops direct and indirect subordinates within HR policies, for the benefit of both ABB and the employee.

Our team dynamics
You will join a dynamic, talented, high performing team, where you will be able to thrive.

Qualifications for the role

* Bachelor degree in engineering, business, or manufacturing-related field PLUS minimum 8 years experience manufacturing planning and fulfillment working with flow products and systems
* Sound knowledge of planning ERP systems, demand planning, and lean manufacturing
* High level of proven experience in SAP, capacity planning, and business analytics tools
* Demonstrated experience in customer-facing communication
* Demonstrated leadership capabilities, with a collaborative, solution-focused approach and strong written and spoken communication skills
* Fluent, confident English language skills
* Candidates must already have a work authorization that would permit them to work for ABB in the US.

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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