Supply Chain Planning Section Manager | alfanar Electric

Requisition ID: 12930

City: C. Supply Chain

Group overview:

Headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, we operate construction and manufacturing businesses, design & development centers, and a host of facilities in the Middle East and other countries.

alfanar is involved in:

• Electrical, Electromechanical and Civil Engineering Construction
• Manufacturing and Marketing Electrical Construction Products
• Allied Engineering Services

Our Main Divisions:

• alfanar electric
• alfanar Construction
• alfanar Building Systems

alfanar electric

alfanar electric is the industrial arm of alfanar, manufacturing a variety of low, medium, and high voltage electrical construction products.

alfanar electric operates industries in:

• Riyadh and Jubail, Saudi Arabia
• Dubai, UAE
• London, UK

alfanar has a development and engineering center in Chennai, India.

Industrial Complex, Riyadh

The center of alfanar’s industrial activities is alfanar Industrial Complex situated in the Third Industrial Zone on Al-Kharj Road, Riyadh. Spread across 700,000 square meters, the Complex houses alfanar’s facilities and has a comprehensive infrastructure including a data and communication center as well as a commercial zone.

Job Purpose: Optimize material planning processes to ensure efficient inventory management, timely procurement, and alignment with production needs. Lead initiatives to minimize excess stock, oversee phase-in/phase-out processes, and continually enhance performance through strategic planning and process improvements.

Key Accountability Areas:

Inventory Management:

• Determine optimal procurement timing and quantities to align with production and warehouse capacities.
• Enhance inventory turnover by minimizing stock levels and eliminating delivery delays.
• Regularly update safety stock levels for all moving items.
• Implement material segmentation (ABC, XYZ, etc.) and establish material planning parameters.

Supply Chain Efficiency:

• Ensure timely deliveries within budget constraints and quality standards.
• Lead and initiate action plans to reduce Stock Excess and Obsolescence.
• Oversee the phase in/phase out process for any material.

Performance Monitoring and Improvement:

• Monitor and review achievements and deviations from pre-defined plans.
• Continuously improve processes and procedures.

Role Accountability:

HR Proficiency:

• Ability to recruit, recognize, and cultivate high performers and expose them 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 a 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 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 automation 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 Engineering

Work Experience: 6 to 10 Years

Technical / Functional Competencies: Materials Flow Analysis, Material Requirements Planning (MRP/MRPII)