Logistics Team Leader (Material Planning)

FORVIA HELLA; Región Centro; Presencial; MXN 1.032.346 - 1.376.462; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

FORVIA HELLA is seeking a professional in El Salto, Jalisco, to supervise and optimize material planning in a high complexity plant operation. This role includes project management and leadership responsibilities, ensuring material availability and continuous improvement in logistics practices.

Candidates are encouraged to apply regardless of their backgrounds, as inclusion and diversity are core values of the company. Join a team committed to high-performance solutions!

Formación

• Ability to supervise and optimize material planning execution.
• Experience in project management related to logistics.
• Strong leadership and team management skills.

Responsabilidades

• Supervise material planning execution in a complex plant operation.
• Manage high complexity logistics projects.
• Guide and support employees to fulfill their tasks.

Descripción del empleo

Location: El Salto, Jalisco

FORVIA HELLA is a listed international automotive supplier. As a company of the FORVIA Group, FORVIA HELLA stands for high-performance lighting technology and vehicle electronics and, with the Lifecycle Solutions Business Group, also covers a broad service and product portfolio for the spare parts and workshop business as well as for manufacturers of special vehicles. With currently around 36,500 employees at over 125 locations, the Company is active worldwide and generated adjusted sales of €8.1 billion in fiscal year 2024.

Job Objective

Supervise and optimize material planning execution in a high complexity plant operation, focused on attaining high material availability within specified resource constraints.

Cooperation / project management in the context of regional and global projects in logistics networks as well implementation of new standards, methods or processes together with global or regional management.

Duties and Responsibilities

A Material Planning

• Supervise and optimize material planning execution in a high complexity plant operation, focused on attaining high material availability within specified resource constraints.
• Responsible to continuously improve the material planning process in a medium up to high complexity plant operation.
• Direct and manage the maintenance of master data.
• Supervise the first level support for material planning in a high complexity plant operation.
• Supervise all knowledge transfer connected to the material planning process.
• Track the achievement of material planning target KPIs in a high complexity plant operation and trigger countermeasures in case of deviations.
• Supervise all material planning activities in a high complexity plant operation and continuously track and manage occurring changes.
• Safeguard that all material planners are fulfilling the required tasks according to corporate standards and trigger trainings to close any related competence gaps in a high complexity plant operation.
• Build-up and maintain all required capabilities and competences to execute a first level support for all material planning related issues in a high complexity plant operation.
• Responsible to direct material planning planners to attain required master data quality for standard material planning use cases.
• Ensure and trigger continuous improvement within the material planning process and supervise the implementation of improvements according to corporate standards incl. documentation of changes.
• Align all material planning activities within plant logistics and across other related functions in the plant as well as in corporate logistics.
• Especially aligning with sales and demand planning, production planning, production and purchasing.
• Manage material planning exceptions and facilitate the generation of viable solutions and initiate logistic escalation if necessary.
• Assumption of KPI responsibility.
• Cooperation / project management in the context of regional and global projects in logistics networks.
• Ensure global standards.

B Project Management

• Management and project lead for high complexity logistics projects from technical and organizational perspective incl. rollout and sustainable implementation of corporate standard processes.
• Defining, planning, coordinating and monitoring tasks within project teams by using defined methods and systems.
• Preparing and further development of concepts for improving recording, analysis, modeling, presentation and management of process-related data.
• Continuous monitoring of project success regarding time, budget and output quality and driving execution of defined actions.
• Coaching and training of the project team and/or triggering additional trainings.
• Negotiating general logistics conditions with suppliers, service providers and customers (e.g. JIT/JIS processes, turnaround periods, packaging).

C Leadership

• Deploying employees corresponding to their qualifications within the relevant structure. Instructing and supporting employees in a target-oriented and motivating manner to fulfill the tasks.
• Guiding, instructing and supporting employees in function-related tasks.
• Participating in hiring process and responsible to sustain the team performance and evaluation as well as qualification demands.

Your Qualifications

Even if you do not meet all our requirements, do not hesitate to apply to us, because the further development of our employees is very important to us and opens up a wide range of opportunities for you in our company.

FORVIA HELLA stands for the variety of all employees. Inclusion and diversity are firmly anchored in our company culture. We are continuously looking for new team players and welcome applications from all interested parties, regardless of their ethical and social background, age, religion, gender, disability, sexual orientation or identity.