Material Planner

Dana is a global leader in the supply of highly engineered driveline, sealing, and thermal-management technologies that improve the efficiency and performance of vehicles with both conventional and alternative-energy powertrains. Serving three primary markets - passenger vehicle, commercial truck, and off-highway equipment - Dana provides the world's original-equipment manufacturers and the aftermarket with local product and service support through a network of nearly 100 engineering, manufacturing, and distribution facilities.

**Position Summary**:
We're looking for a **Material Planner** in Montano Lucino (CO) location, in Italy.

The Material Planner is responsible for ensuring that the materials and components are available to meet the complete customer demand.

**Main Opportunities and Challanges**:
Decision making, flexible approach, team working, sense of urgency, self talent development to growth in the organization.

**Main Responsibilities**:

- Manage materials stock control within lean principles in line with organizational key performance indicators
- Guarantee material availability in the proper time and quantity accordingly to the production planning
- Ensure regular liaison with suppliers to maintain effective supply and reconcile any production /materials issues regarding schedules
- Provide information for daily production meeting to report on inventory levels and supplier/material issues
- Establish and create cost reduction plans for freight and warehouse costs
- Analyze changing material demand patterns
- Resolve capacity issues by prioritized scheduling and requests
- Maintain Master Data and update MRP settings in SAP
- Manage and update MRP exception messages

**Job Position Requirements**:
**Education**:
University Bachelor Degree in Engineering

Professional background:
1-2 years’ experience as Material Planner in a multinational company, within a lean manufacturing envinronment. Automotive business is preferred.

**Hard Skills**:
Essential:

- Knowledge of SAP and experience with MRP systems
- MS Excel
- Ability to work in a fast paced environment with tight deadlines
- Knowledge of industrial manufacturing process
- Extensive experience in expediting materials in a computerized inventory environment
- Excellent command in spoken and written English

Considered as a plus:
Experience working with OEMs

**Soft Skills**:

- Dynamic, quick thinking and flexible
- Attitude to problem solving, even in stressful situations
- Must be able to work as part of a Team and have the drive and determination to succeed in a challenging and highly motivated enviroment
- Strong influencing and negotiation skills
- Interpersonal and communications skills and suppliers relations

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.

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