Material Planner

ALSTOM Gruppe; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A global transportation firm in Riyadh is seeking a Material Planner. The candidate will manage the Supplier's portfolio, ensuring timely and accurate delivery of materials. Key responsibilities include collaboration with procurement, tracking supply issues, and analyzing delivery performance. This role requires expertise in materials planning and strong organizational skills.

Qualifications

• Experience in materials requirements planning is essential.

Responsibilities

• Manage Supplier's portfolio to ensure goods delivery.
• Collaborate with Procurement team on contractual agreements.
• Analyze and manage MRP exception messages.

Skills

Materials requirements planning

Job description

Material Planner Job Description

Date: 1 Oct 2025

Location: Riyadh, SA

Company: Alstom

The purpose of this job is to manage the Supplier's portfolio (Internal and/or External suppliers) for ensuring goods delivery at the right time, quantity, and place based on Alstom needs.

Key responsibilities include:

• Express delivery needs to suppliers and contribute to governance of the Supplier's delivery performances.
• Drive action plan for performance improvement and contribute to risk management.
• Collaborate with the Procurement team to ensure the contractual agreements are reflected in the ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system.

Qualifications:

• Materials requirements planning

Key duties include:

• Follow up with Procurement the Purchase Requisition level maturity for launching Material Planning documents
• Ensure and update the accuracy of material planning master data (in compliance with stock and logistic constraints)
• Create the Material Planning documents (Call-off, Schedule Agreement) and respective Source List and Quota Management
• Communicate the Material Planning documents to Suppliers and follow Suppliers confirmation
• Analyze Suppliers confirmations vs. Alstom needs and evaluate the risk/impact anticipation on production/projects
• Identify priorities associated with risk/impact anticipation and set up recovery actions
• Organize and maintain regular reviews with Suppliers in order to check the status of deliveries and their delivery performances
• Analyze and manage MRP exception messages and anticipate supply problems (backlogs, shortages, no demand…)
• Maintain delivery dates in ERP
• Track missing parts until stock availability
• Ensure non-conformities replacement through NCR process
• Resolve Goods Receipts issues with the applied means of communication (overstock, shortage, damage, documentation, quantity mismatch, Invoices, etc.)
• Analyze and share deliveries performances KPI's with different stakeholders (Internal & External)
• Collaborate with Material Planning Management/SDPM to validate worst Suppliers and define appropriate action plan
• Contribute (when involved) to Supplier Capacity Assessment
• Contribute (when involved) to Supplier's Light Capability Assessment (LSCA)
• Contribute to new business risk assessments and mitigation action plan

Missions:

• Express delivery needs to Suppliers using the dedicated tools
• Follow up deliveries and ensure the availability of goods for Alstom projects
• Contribute with SC inputs for supplier selection
• Contribute to the project SC objectives and targets by ensuring material planning and ERP settings are in line with these