Team Leadership

• Supervise, coach, and develop Buyer Planners.
• Set performance expectations, conduct regular 1:1s, and manage performance against KPIs.
• Balance workloads across commodities, projects, and production requirements.
• Ensure disciplined use of ERP/MRP systems and accurate planning data.
• Develop cross-training and professional development plans, including APICS CPIM/CSCP opportunities.
• Maintain coverage plans for absences and staffing changes.

Material & Project Planning

• Work with Senior and Junior Project Managers to align material plans with project schedules and production releases.
• Participate in ETO project kickoffs to review BOMs, identify long-lead components, assess supply risk, and establish material commitments.
• Provide material availability and lead-time information for customer delivery planning.
• Lead shortage escalations and coordinate supplier alternatives, recovery plans, and internal responses.
• Review the active project portfolio and protect material critical paths.
• Support quick-ship and CTO programs through appropriate finished-goods and material availability.

Sales & Demand Planning

• Provide Sales with lead-time, supplier capacity, and material availability information during the quoting process.
• Participate in SIOP meetings and provide supply chain input on forecasts, backlog, and capacity.
• Use sales pipeline information to anticipate demand and position strategic materials.
• Support customer-specific stocking, blanket order, and consignment programs.

Strategic Supply Management

• Develop positioning plans for critical and long-lead materials.
• Manage inventory strategies for specialty breakers, bus assemblies, power electronic modules, custom enclosures, transformers, and other critical components.
• Identify single-source risks and develop mitigation strategies such as dual sourcing, safety stock, supplier-managed inventory, and LTAs.
• Support commodity strategy and preferred supplier programs.
• Lead facility-level make/buy analysis and present recommendations to leadership.
• Monitor commodity pricing, supply constraints, geopolitical risks, and tariff impacts and recommend appropriate actions.

Inventory Management

• Own inventory performance, including turns, days of supply, E&O inventory, and working capital.
• Drive toward a target of 10 inventory turns per year.
• Lead monthly excess and obsolete inventory reviews and track disposition actions.
• Establish safety stock, reorder point, lot-sizing, and cycle-count policies.
• Lead the annual physical inventory process.
• Balance material availability with inventory investment and working capital objectives.

Supplier Management

• Monitor supplier SOTD, PPM, lead-time accuracy, and responsiveness.
• Conduct quarterly business reviews with key suppliers and establish measurable improvement plans.
• Escalate supplier issues that could affect production.
• Work with Quality Engineering on SCARs, root cause analysis, corrective actions, and supplier recovery.
• Support qualification of new suppliers with Quality Engineering and Application Engineering.
• Negotiate or oversee pricing agreements, blanket POs, and LTAs with strategic suppliers.

ERP / MRP & Reporting

• Maintain accurate item masters, BOMs, supplier lead times, and planning parameters.
• Establish ERP/MRP usage standards and eliminate off-system planning practices.
• Review MRP results and correct issues involving parameters, demand signals, and BOMs.
• Partner with IT and ERP administrators on system improvements and reporting.
• Prepare weekly supply chain dashboards and monthly KPI scorecards.
• Lead improvements involving ERP parameters, supplier lead times, receiving, inventory, and material flow.
• Apply Lean principles and 5S throughout warehouse and stockroom operations.