Join LEGO® Manufacturing Vietnam (LMV) as a Material Planning Specialist and become a pivotal part of a team that thrives on innovation and excellence. Here, your expertise will help shape the building blocks of creativity and play, in an environment that values your growth and contribution to crafting a future where every process is as inspiring as our products. Apply now and build a career that stands the test of time, just like our bricks!

* T his role will be working temporarily at LEGO temporary office in District 1, HCMC (shuttle bus is provided from Bien Hoa, Binh Duong to the office) and be relocated to Binh Duong at the end of 2024.

Core Responsibilities

• Responsible for the planning of raw materials and packing materials , ensuring that the production plan can be executed. Through close contact with Procurement team and suppliers, you ensure that a solid supplier relationship and performance.
  
• Base on Forecast to monitor PO to vendor and prepare raw material demand before release PO to vendor. Ensure it meets the MRP requirements.
  
• Place order with right price, right lead time, right quantity based on requirements and forecast in SAP system. Contact with supplier to ensure receiving goods in right time and right quantity. In case that material has quality issue, work with other department and vendor to clear it as replacement.
  
• Manage MRP exceptions and all activities related to material planning to ensure material availability for the master production plan in line with planning parameters and vendor contract.
  
• Ensure material master data is correct and properly maintaining of SAP transactional data.
  
• Monitor, follow up and provide feedback on supplier’s performance on delivery, quality, and service. Take action to improve supplier’s delivery performance.
  
• Minimize material freight expenses, control shipment on time to prevent air cost in case of urgent shortage.
  
• Control Inventory based on target defined and goods receipt target, consumption target to make sure inventory protection happen.
  
• Control unhealthy stock to avoid excess and dead stock. Reduce inventory to increase cash flow of plant.
  
• Responsible for all communication related to supply risks, interruptions, and impacts.
  
• Support department initiatives that drive improvements in process and capabilities throughout the organization.
  
• Ensure good communication and integration with other planning team, shop floor planner, shipping and other stakeholders.
  
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.
  

Play your part in our team succeeding
You could be our new Material Planning Specialist to support the Planning Director to start up the new Planning team in an extraordinary factory and make sure that our exciting products reach the hands of the children in the most efficient manner. You are also responsible for providing all Planning support to the Packing operation – advance information of plans, monitoring and reporting progress, etc.
Play an important country planning role to set up Material Planning process as well as planning execution in LMV.

Do you have what it takes?

• Prefer candidate with Bachelor or Master’s Degree in Logistics/ Supply Chain Management or Finance/Accounting Management, Business Management or similar education background
  
• Strong command of English
  

Must -have qualifications

• A minimum of 5-year- experience in material planning/ buyer/ production planning at multinational manufacturing site with end-to-end Supply Chain, S&OP Process.
  
• Comprehensive understanding of existing and future capacity plans/constraints at the manufacturing plant and distribution network, and knowledge of how production capacity can be flexed to meet demand.
  
• MS Office (Power Point and Excel is a must, Power BI is a plus)
  
• Deep knowledge in SAP system.
  
• Good problem-solving skills, able to identify and structure issues, run accurate analysis and synthesize recommendations.
  
• Strong communication & inter-personal skills, able to work under pressure.
  
• Good analytical, communication and coordination skills
  
• Proven record in professional working style with demonstrated ability provide support effectively, also in a matrix environment – working with large cross-functional, cross-cultural teams.
  
• Good with numbers and attention to details.
  

Nice-to-have qualifications

• Preference on Consumer Goods industry
  
• Understanding of import & export process will be an advantage
  

Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However, please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to any advertised closing date. So, if you're interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

What’s in it for you?

Here is what you can expect:

Family Care Leave - We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.

Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.

Wellbeing - We want our people to feel well and thrive. We offer resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing along with opportunities to build community and inspire creativity.

Colleague Discount – We know you'll love to build, so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.

Bonus - We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.

Workplace - When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.

Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.

The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age and religion) to apply for roles in our team.
Research shows that women and people from different underrepresented backgrounds often only apply for a job if they meet 100% of the listed qualifications. If you dream of being a part of our team and you meet many, but not all of our listed qualifications for this role, please apply.

The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.

Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.

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