Materials Planning Team Lead — Drive Planning Excellence

Arrow Components (M) Sdn Bhd; Penang; On-site; MYR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Life Insurance

Year-end Bonus

Performance Bonus

5-Day Work Week

Growth Opportunities

Job summary

Arrow Electronics, Inc. in Penang, Malaysia is seeking an Assistant Manager, Materials Planning to lead the department and optimize inventory planning and cash flow. You will oversee invoicing, credit processes and service requests while driving efficiency across planning activities.

The role involves managing a team, implementing best practices, and coordinating with supervisors to meet targets. It offers a 5-day work week and opportunities for growth within a global tech company.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a 4 year degree and a minimum of 5 years of related experience; or an advanced degree without experience; or equivalent work experience.

Responsibilities

• Manage the department, overseeing and resolving a variety of receivable discrepancies and customer invoice disputes. Improve company cash flow by performing invoice dispute root cause analysis and facilitates customer product returns, minimizing bad debt write offs.
• Manage customer service staff, including hiring, performance management, training and employee development. Respond to customer escalations and performance issues of the department.
• Designing, implementing and improving credit issuance and billing creation processes. Participate in development of key measures and reports for management of service requests.
• Track and report quality issues using reports from system, customer surveys, etc. including return, invoice disputes, shipping discrepancies, claim issues, freight issues and vendor issues.
• Manages a team responsible for maintaining inventory
• Implement planning engagements.
• Standardize and deploy best practices and more efficient ways of doing business within planning team.
• Coordinates and supervises the daily activities of business or technical support
• Sets priorities for the team to ensure task completion; coordinates work activities with other supervisors
• Decisions are guided by policies, procedures and business plan; receives guidance and oversight from manager
• Accountable for the results of routine support operations teams
• Solves problems based on practice and precedent
• Trains team members and provides input to employee performance evaluations

Education

4 year degree or equivalent

Job description

Arrow Electronics, Inc. in Penang, Malaysia is seeking an Assistant Manager, Materials Planning to lead the department and optimize inventory planning and cash flow. You will oversee invoicing, credit processes and service requests while driving efficiency across planning activities.

The role involves managing a team, implementing best practices, and coordinating with supervisors to meet targets. It offers a 5-day work week and opportunities for growth within a global tech company.