Raw Material Planner Analyst Lazio

Raw Material Planner Analyst
Roma
Lazio, Lazio

Raw Material Planner Analyst**:

**Position Snapshot

- Type of Contract: Permanent/ temporary/internship

- Full-time/Part Time

- Location:

**The Company**:

Bridgestone in Europe, Russia, Middle East, India and Africa (BSEMIA), headquartered in Zaventem (Belgium), is a subsidiary of Bridgestone Corporation, a global leader providing sustainable mobility and advanced solutions.

In addition to our premium tire products, we offer a growing portfolio of tire-centric and mobility solutions.

Together with our partners and guided by _"Serving Society with Superior Quality", _that has been our mission since Shojiro Ishibashi founded Bridgestone in 1931, we are working to accelerate sustainable mobility innovations and solutions.

Through innovative technology, we are committed to easier, safer, smoother and seamless mobility for our society and customers improving how people move, live, work and play.

Bridgestone also benefits from a significant retail network throughout the region - in fact our retail presence in the EMIA region is the largest in the tire industry.

Through 17 distinct retail partners, we have around 3, 500 outlets across Europe, the Middle East and Africa as well as around 2, 500 outlets through our partner network in India.

This network offers a selection of services, concepts and mobility solutions.

At Bridgestone we pride ourselves on the strong relationships we maintain with everyday drivers and this extensive retail network is one of the core reasons why.

- Bridgestone EMIA_

In line with the "Bridgestone Essence", our work environment is based on integrity and teamwork, where everyone can learn from each other and contribute with their own ideas in achieving the coming goals.

We want to hear from people who can take the challenge, unleash their creative potential and contribute to the company success demonstrating ownership, courage and agility.

We want you to develop your skills, expand your knowledge and be proud of your work.

**Job purpose

As a key member of the Raw Material Planning team you oversee the periodical calculation of the material gross requirements on operational, tactical and strategic horizons.

Based on processes and routines with central and plant stakeholders, you collect all production planning inputs, and review with a critical eye.

You keep track of major developments in new and changing tyre and compound specifications.

These inputs enable you to calculate and analyze raw material requirements for all plants across Europe.

You act as owner for defining gross raw material requirements, act as owner to collect and challenge all required inputs.

Good connection with stakeholders in central and local production planning teams and stakeholders within the European Technical Center will be important.

Within the Raw Material Planning team, you will keep the link with Raw Material Category Planners, who will use your work out as input to make the net raw material planning and order to suppliers.

You realize that the quality and timeliness of your work has a direct and important effect on your colleague's work and output of the entire Raw Material Planning team.

You take ownership of part of the reporting related to gross raw material requirements, leveraging OMP as tool for daily operations and KPI tracking.

**Main responsibilities / Key result areas**:

- **GATHER INPUTS PRODUCTION PLANNING**:

- Gather production planning inputs for different categories including tyre production, compound production, bladder production and other

- Compile production planning inputs in operational weekly cycles, tactical monthly cycles and yearly strategical cycles

- Lead routine meetings with production planners to understand what is behind the volumes in the production plans, understanding and seeing risks and opportunities

- Analyze inputs from production planning to identify most accurate inputs and pro-actively identify attention points for material planning

- Need for special attention to trial production planning

- **GATHER INPUTS SPECIFICATIONS**:

- Create on continuous basis visibility on upcoming new specifications for both tyres and compounds

- Lead and or join routine meetings with plants and European technical center to ensure all required specs data is available to ensure timely ordering of raw materials

- Collaborate closely with local stakeholders in plants finance and technical service teams to be aware about status and progress

- **MAINTAIN MASTER DATA**:

- Maintain material master data in OMP

- Track and maintain specs master data in OMP

- Maintain data translation tables in OMP

- **ANALYSIS**:

- Consolidate received and reviewed inputs

- Analyze gathered inputs to detect potential errors

- **BOM EXPLOSION**:

- Run BOM explosions in OMP based on consolidated inputs

- Add extra requirements after BOM explosion

- Translate and split material codes

- **VALIDATION**:

- Challenge outputs versus different data sources

- Validate outputs against own data r