Section Manager, Material & Production Planning | alfanar Electric

Job Purpose

To manage the execution of material and production planning activities within the section, ensuring timely availability of materials, efficient production scheduling, and alignment with customer demand. The role coordinates with procurement, production, and warehouse teams to optimize resources, maintain inventory balance, and support the achievement of delivery, cost, and quality objectives.

Key Accountability Areas

Material Planning Execution

• Implement material planning processes in alignment with departmental strategies and operational requirements.
• Review and validate material requirements based on sales forecasts, production schedules, and inventory levels.
• Coordinate with procurement to ensure timely ordering and delivery of materials.

Production Planning and Scheduling

• Develop and update detailed production schedules to meet delivery commitments and optimize plant capacity.
• Monitor work orders and production progress, identifying and resolving delays or bottlenecks.
• Coordinate with production supervisors to align scheduling with resource availability.

Inventory Monitoring

• Track raw material, work-in-progress, and finished goods inventory to maintain optimal stock levels.
• Recommend adjustments to inventory policies to prevent shortages or excess stock.
• Coordinate with warehouse teams to ensure accurate inventory records.

Cross-Functional Coordination

• Liaise with sales, procurement, warehouse, and quality control teams to ensure alignment of material and production plans.
• Participate in Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) meetings to provide input on capacity and material availability.

Performance Tracking and Reporting

• Monitor section KPIs related to material availability, production adherence, and delivery performance.
• Prepare and submit regular progress reports to higher management, highlighting risks and recommending improvements.

Risk Awareness and Problem Resolution

• Identify potential risks in material supply or production schedules and recommend mitigation measures.
• Address operational issues affecting production targets in coordination with relevant teams.

Role Accountability

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

Work Experience

Technical / Functional Competencies