Manager. Material & Production Planning , LV | alfanar Electric

Job Purpose

Material Planning Strategy & Governance

• Lead the development and implementation of material planning strategies aligned with business objectives and operational requirements.
• Oversee the validation of material requirements based on sales forecasts, production plans, and inventory policies.
• Ensure effective coordination with procurement to secure material availability in line with production and delivery commitments.
• Establish and enforce planning standards, policies, and governance frameworks across the function.

Production Planning & Capacity Management

• Direct the development and optimization of production plans to ensure efficient utilization of plant capacity and on-time delivery.
• Oversee production scheduling activities, ensuring alignment with resource availability and operational priorities.
• Monitor overall production performance, proactively addressing constraints, bottlenecks, and capacity risks.
• Drive initiatives to enhance planning accuracy, scheduling efficiency, and throughput optimization.

Inventory Strategy & Control

• Define and manage inventory strategies to maintain optimal stock levels across raw materials, WIP, and finished goods.
• Oversee inventory performance, ensuring alignment with working capital targets and service level requirements.
• Approve and implement inventory optimization initiatives to reduce excess, obsolescence, and stockouts.
• Ensure governance and accuracy of inventory data in coordination with warehouse and relevant stakeholders.

Cross-Functional Leadership & S&OP Alignment

• Lead cross-functional coordination with sales, procurement, warehouse, production, and quality to ensure integrated planning.
• Represent the function in S&OP processes, providing strategic input on capacity, material constraints, and demand-supply balancing.
• Drive alignment between commercial forecasts and operational capabilities to support business growth and service levels.

Performance Management & Reporting

• Define and monitor KPIs related to material availability, production adherence, inventory health, and delivery performance.
• Review performance trends and drive corrective actions to ensure achievement of operational and business targets.
• Provide regular executive-level reporting, highlighting key risks, performance gaps, and improvement initiatives.

Risk Management & Continuous Improvement

• Establish proactive risk management practices to mitigate disruptions in material supply and production planning.
• Lead root cause analysis for major planning and execution issues, ensuring sustainable corrective actions.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives across planning processes, systems, and tools to enhance efficiency and reliability.

HR Proficiency

• Ability to recruit, recognize and cultivate high performers and expose them in order to create a robust second line of management.
• Ability to recognize low performers and guide them to improve or release them.
• Ability to treat subordinates equally without any discrimination.
• Assessment criteria of subordinates is performance that leads to planned results.
• Ensure availability of delegation of authority matrix to have sufficient delegations as per company policy.

Responsibility

• Must take full responsibility for his operation as per the job description and the required deliverables from this position, taking into consideration the general company guidelines.
• Able to anticipate problems and make the necessary proactive steps to prevent them
• Ability to take necessary and proper timely decisions.

Delivery

• Deliver the required results in timely manner with required quality and cost.
• Making a Tangible Difference:
• Must make a tangible difference to his area of operation. and exceed business expectations.

Business Planning and Performance

• Able to transform the corporate goals into business plans.
• Able to Plan, follow-up and execute those plans, whether they are annual or development plans.
• Monitor the plan performance and initiate action to strengthen results and take the corrective action accordingly.
• Provide periodic work progress reports.
• Responsible for monitoring and controlling budgets and expenses to achieve the optimum cost efficiency.

Organizational Development

• Develop the organizational structure according to the current requirements taking into consideration future and development plans.
• Ensure availability of job descriptions for all job roles and deployment.

Business Process Improvements

• Develop, coordinate well-defined written systems, policies, procedures, and seek automations opportunities as much as possible.
• Should be conversant and able to navigate through IT solutions especially those relevant to his job and business.
• Promote the automated systems and using them fully, to spread its culture.

Quality

• Quality is considered as alfanar’s prime competitive advantage as such, managers are expected to act accordingly.

Adaptation

• Adapt to new and alternative techniques, technologies, management structures, and business models.

Health, Safety and Environment

• Ensure a safe, secure, and legal work environment as per the standard regulations.
• Academic Qualification Bachelor Degree in Electrical Engineering or Mechanical EngineeringWork Experience 10-15 yearsTechnical / Functional Competencies Materials Flow AnalysisMaterials/Parts KnowledgeContinuous Flow ProductionPlanningProduction Planning
• Profile description:
• Alfanar is a Saudi company with an international presence, primarily engaged in the manufacturing and trading of a wide variety of low, medium, and high voltage electrical products, in addition to its portfolio of conventional and renewable energy solutions, oil and gas, water treatment, infrastructure, technical services, and digital solutions.
• The hub of alfanar’s manufacturing operations is Medinet alfanar Alsinaiya, a 700,000 square-meter complex located in Riyadh.
• The complex houses an array of ultra-modern manufacturing facilities and laboratories equipped with state-of-the-art technologies and staffed with highly skilled professionals.
• alfanar derives its success from its commitment to providing the highest quality standards to its customers, and the continuous development of its human capital, who alfanar considers its most valuable asset.
• With this in mind, alfanar promotes a proactive work environment where its employees are always valued, nurtured, and empowered to fuel their pride in being part of alfanar.
• For more information about alfanar, please visit alfanar.com