Material Planner

Ericsson GmbH; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Ericsson is seeking a Material Planner in India to optimize the end-to-end supply chain and ensure timely restoration of services by maintaining optimal stock levels and cost efficiency. The role emphasizes data-driven analysis and continuous improvement to reduce inventory costs while improving service delivery.

You will collaborate with repair centres and stakeholders, drive process improvements, and take ownership of stocking decisions across the product lifecycle to support business

Qualifications

• 6 to 10 years of experience in material planning/inventory planning.
• Reverse logistics experience preferred.
• Knowledge of business processes and change/improvement management.

Responsibilities

• Execute the Hardware Services (HWS) Material Planning process efficiently.
• Ensure stock availability through Forecasting, Stock Dimensioning, Replenishment Planning, and Source Planning while maintaining spend and inventory levels.
• Monitor and follow up on orders to suppliers and repair centres.
• Serve as the primary interface to repair centres for daily issues and scale structural issues to stakeholders.
• Identify opportunities for cost savings and service improvements.
• Make informed decisions on intended inventory stocking levels.
• Review and adjust Target Stock Levels (TSL) to fulfil changes in demand.
• Manage dimensioning throughout the product lifecycle.
• Take part in or lead assignments to drive strategy.
• Perform root cause analysis and implement countermeasures.

Skills

Supply Chain Management

Logistics Management

Computer Science

Applied Probability

Education

Supply Chain related degree

Job description

Join our Team

About this opportunity

Material Planning is an integral part of the Hardware Services Delivery team, ensuring that Ericsson has the necessary service parts to enable our customers to timely restore failures in the live network. The role of the material planner is to optimize delivery performance while minimizing costs and inventory across the end-to-end supply chain. This requires a data driven, analytical mind-set, continuous improvement by doing high quality root causes analysis and defining effective counter measures.

What you will do

• Execute the Hardware Services (HWS) Material Planning process efficiently.
• Ensure stock availability through Forecasting, Stock Dimensioning, Replenishment Planning, and Source Planning while maintaining desired spend and inventory levels.
• Monitor and follow up on orders to suppliers and repair centres.
• Serve as the primary interface to repair centres for daily issues and scale structural issues, such as capacity and quality, to the relevant stakeholders.
• Initiate process and tool improvements.
• Identify opportunities for cost savings and service improvements.
• Make informed decisions on intended inventory stocking levels.
• Review and adjust Target Stock Levels (TSL) to ensure fulfilment in response to changes in customer demand.
• Manage dimensioning throughout the product lifecycle.
• Take part in and/or lead assignments to drive our strategy.
• Perform root cause analysis, define and execute effective structural countermeasures.

The skills you bring

• A background in Supply Chain Management, Logistics Management, Computer Science, or Mathematical Theory and Applied Probability.
• Relevant experience between 6 to 10 years in material planning/inventory planning.
• (reverse) logistics experience is a preference.
• Knowledge of Business Processes.
• Process Management Expertise.
• Change and Improvement Management Skills.
• Consultative Skills.
• Customer Relationship Management.
• Customer Support - Services Knowledge.
• Risk Management Proficiency.
• Service Delivery Process Knowledge.

Why join Ericsson

At Ericsson, you´ll have an outstanding opportunity. The chance to use your skills and imagination to push the boundaries of what´s possible. To build solutions never seen before to some of the world’s toughest problems. You´ll be challenged, but you won’t be alone. You´ll be joining a team of diverse innovators, all driven to go beyond the status quo to craft what comes next.

Encouraging a diverse and inclusive organization is core to our values at Ericsson, that's why we champion it in everything we do. We truly believe that by collaborating with people with different experiences we drive innovation, which is essential for our future growth. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and realise their full potential as part of our Ericsson team. Ericsson is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. learn more.

Primary country and city: India (IN) || Gurgaon