Material Planning Advanced Specialist

Autoliv; Santiago de Querétaro; Hybrid; MXN 420,000 - 660,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Attractive compensation package

Flexible office + home office Fridays

Recognition awards & company events

Gender pay equality

Job summary

Autoliv is seeking a logistics-focused professional to implement and optimize the North American Logistics Strategic Plan across cross-docks and manufacturing sites. You will standardize data and material flows to drive efficiency, mitigate supply risk, and reduce network miles through optimization and asset utilization.

The role requires 3–5 years of experience, advanced English, and a strong understanding of TMS, WMS, MRP, ERP, MES, and YMS in automotive/manufacturing environments.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3–5 years of experience in logistics or supply chain roles.
• Bachelor’s degree in Logistics, Supply Chain, Industrial Engineering, or related field.
• Advanced English skills and ability to collaborate with IT and business teams.

Responsibilities

• Map and optimize process flows across cross-docks and manufacturing sites.
• Translate business needs into IT requirements and support UAT testing.
• Drive data standardization, master data cleansing and enrichment.
• Support digitalization initiatives and new system enhancements.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

English proficiency

Process optimization

Project management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Logistics

Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain

Tools

TMS

WMS

MRP

ERP

MES

YMS

Job description

Support & execute the implementation of the Logistics Strategic Plan across all cross-docks and manufacturing locations in North America. Standardize data and material flow processes to drive efficiency and deliver value through optimization efforts. Focus will be on standardizing and communize process flow for all interrelated locations to effect improvements in supply continuity, mitigate supply risk and reduce network miles through optimization and increase asset utilization.

What You’ll Do

• Mapping process-flow, understanding how each system interacts with processes, improve system efficiency and usage, cleansing, harmonization and enrichment of master data.
• Bridging Business and IT (understand and transform business requirements into IT projects), creation of Business Functional Requirements whenever needed, UAT testing, brainstorm and implement system enhancements across all different systems (ERP, MES, TMS, WMS, YMS).
• Have a bird’s eye view to understand the big picture, have a strategic approach, help translate business needs into functional specifications that IT can develop and execute to show how technology can help drive & improve efficiency and bring value, able to be hands on when needed to support and guide super-users and users on, testing, brainstorming, developing and implementing.
• Project execution and follow up and any other special projects that may come up. Be current at market trends, new systems, applications, AI improvements that could benefit Autoliv’s digitalization efforts.

What Is Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Industrial Engineering, or related field
• 3-5 Years Of Experience
• Advanced English skills
• Solid understand of supply chain management (data and material flow) as well as applications utilized to drive efficiencies (TMS, WMS, MRP, Scanning, etc.) with focus in Automotive/Manufacturing environment.

What’s In It For You

• Attractive compensation package
• Flexible Options (Monday-Thursday at Office, Friday's Home Office)
• Recognition awards, company events, family events, university discount options and many more perks.
• Gender Pay Equality

Autoliv is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Autoliv does not discriminate in any aspect of employment based on race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, gender, sexual orientation, gender identify and/or expression, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local employment discrimination laws where Autoliv does business.