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Our Growth is Creating Great Opportunities!

Our team is expanding, and we want to hire the most talented people we can. Continued success depends on it! Once you've had a chance to explore our current open positions, apply to the ones you feel suit you best and keep track of both your progress in the selection process, and new postings that might interest you!

Thanks for your interest in working on our team!

Job Description

Principle Tasks:

• Secure the Adtran on-time-delivery targets
• Schedule and monitor purchase orders in order to meet our requested delivery date
• Major interface to the Demand Planning teams to support material inflow according to customer requirements
• Lead and push continuous improvement in terms of on-time-delivery performance, production utilization, order-confirmation-time from the suppliers and contract manufacturers
• Balance between service level and inventory level
• Support planning concepts for finished goods, half-finished goods and raw material (e.g. buffer stock, master data)
• Stay connected to Demand Planning to answer requests regarding lead times, supply capabilities, on-time-delivery, material availabilities and pull & push activities
• Develop and control actions to support division, departmental and personal goals (e.g. stocks, on-time-delivery, lead times)
• Contribute to strategic concepts as part of a Supply Chain Planning team
• Lead and participate in projects to support the continuous improvement process within the organization
• Track and trace on-time-delivery performance in the form of required meeting cycles, data reporting and process improvements

Supplementary Tasks:

• Participate in Supply Chain projects to support continuous improvement process
• Represent SCM and Supply Planning Function in Adtran projects
• Support ERP System improvements by reporting of functional bug’s and defining improvement requests

Customers (Internal & External):

• Demand Planning
• S&OP
• Stratetic Procurement
• Product Line Management
• Quality Management
• New Product Introduction
• In- & Outbound logistics
• Production planning
• Sales Operations
• Research & Development

Skills / Qualifications / Training / Experience:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business Administration, Economic Science, Industrial Engineering or equivalent
• Experience in Supply Chain / Purchasing is welcome
• Good knowledge in MS Office and ERP landscapes (SAP or similar)
• Team orientation, high motivation, responsiveness, assertiveness, commitment
• Good command of English and German languages

Success Criteria:

• A pro-active approach of getting things done to fulfill costumer expectations
• Open minded and communicative to manage critical situations and represent a “can do” attitude
• Representing the Adtran goals and culture
• Representing the Operations Vision
• No fear of making mistakes, representing and owning decisions
• To set expectation up front and always manage them
• Not to promise what cannot be delivered, but stretching the comfort zone
• To be able to deliver bad news promptly and with a plan