Material Planning Specialist

Job Description

Be part of something bigger. Decode the future.

Electrolux Group is a leading global appliance company that has shaped living for the better for more than 100 years. We reinvent taste, care and wellbeing experiences for millions of people, always striving to be at the forefront of sustainability in society through our solutions and operations. Under our group of leading appliance brands, including Electrolux, AEG and Frigidaire, we sell household products in around 120 markets every year. In 2025 Electrolux Group had sales of SEK 131 billion and employed 39,000 people around the world. For more information go to www.electroluxgroup.com. 
 
Join us in our exciting quest to build a future home!

This is for 10 the of Ramadan Factory – Cairo – Egypt.

The role is to formulate strategies for online platform and responsible for driving growth and develop the channel to meet revenue and growth targets. This role must lead the team and cross functionally and executes comprehensive online sales and ecommerce business plan, and tracking sales trends and identifies opportunity for growth.

What you’ll do:

• Issue POs to optimize inventory availability and maximize DSA.
• Follows up the monthly requisition for local materials and foreign materials on daily basis.
• Issues requisition and maintain inventories of imported materials and supplies necessary to meet the production plans.
• Manages the materials requirements with the Purchasing and Warehouse departments.
• Monitors the flow of scrap materials and slow-moving items.
• Coordinates with the Service center to deliver required spare parts as per a periodic FCST.
• Coordinate with relevant departments to introduce new models on the production lines to ensure smooth running.
• Evaluates the Performance of Section by calculating the turnover ratio and availability of materials and days of supplies.
• Monthly Component stock 3D Analysis (ABC – XYZ – RRS) to Control the NOWC.
• Communicate Receiving team Leader by the Boxes delivery Plan on weekly / daily basis.
• Monthly Safety stock reanalysis to define the best safety stock for Owned ANCs,
• Manage the Phase in/out plans for Components &RM to ensure 100% depletion for Components and zero obsolescence stocks.
• Together with Purchasing fix budget, periodically review (EA1, EA2,) and monthly check component requirement.
• Manage and issue Production/Delivery orders through daily check of production plan and delivery status.
• Manage non-compliant deliveries: in agreement with Quality- Manufacturing- Supplier, report non-conformity material with all needed information to manage failure and arrange for replacement of the defective material/ component to maintain healthy feeding to the plant operations.
• Management of obsolete components: in collaboration with affected areas, develop proper actions to make internal usage of obsolete components (parts, kits…) or to ask supplier to re-work. In case of no further usage/renewal, act with Controlling for proper accounting.
• Manage the use of components not included in the bill of materials, such as lack of material, power consumption, low inventory in the warehouse, and quality issues.
• Inventory maintenance: continuously monitoring status of own assigned component stock.
• Call off consolidation: Consolidates the Requirements from each factory for the same commodity and same Supplier.
• Supplier adherence assessment comparing plan vs estimate vs actual dates & quantities
• Monitor Control Cash Flow by control flow of inbound cash flow with current liabilities.
• Close the cycle with receiving WH team to ensure good receiving and report the rejected shipments.
• Monitor the Custody Shipment in receiving area to release it finally from customs.
• Frequently Suppliers Visit for more alignments and Develop performance (Local / Foreign)
• Control and Manage the Documents circulation related to Shipments and ensure its validation compared to government Banking and ports requirements.
• Monthly review the Actual Suppliers Lead-time compared by theoretical to reduce Suppliers lead-time as much as it can to develop components stocks.
• Follow up open orders from issuing the order till receive it at WH (arrange shipping as per Electrolux contact – manage the doc, follow clearance)
• Manage the Process with Customs & TF and control the Cost of Demurrage.
• Sourcing boards process Participates, give a clear, and well define rating to suppliers from Supply Chain Point of view.
• Review and confirm the Purchasing contracts on system to ensure its validate and completion.

Who you are:

• Bachelor’s Degree.
• 1-3 years of experience in supply chain management, preferably in a manufacturing environment.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Strong communication ability (both written and spoken)
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate with stakeholders across functions
• Ability to tackle demands of ever-evolving technological implements with ease

Core Competencies:

• International. You enjoy working in a truly global environment and you like to deliver in cross-functional teams;

• Strategic. You have demonstrated strategic thinking, have strong analytical skills and ability to see the big picture;

• Business acumen. You have a proven track record of displaying strong business understanding and you are able to evaluate risks/opportunities making skilled business decisions;

• Team player. You have exceptional collaboration skills, proven ability to form strong cross-functional relationships with varying business partners;

• Good listener and communicator. You have great communication skills, and you have the ability to convince, influence and motivate others in a complex matrix organization;

• Self-starter. You are keen on new experience, responsibility and accountability. You are self-driven, problem-solver with a proven track record of delivering great results;

• Agile. You like working in a fast-moving environment, being open to new opportunities and evolving priorities and being flexible in the way you deliver against strict deadlines and dealing with ambiguity. You manage every shifting priority.

• Energy. You are passionate about what you do and able to transmit that energy to your team. Challenges are there to be overcome!

Benefits Highlights:

• Flexibility of work hours with hybrid work arrangement
• Discounts on Electrolux products and services.
• Medical & Hospitalization coverage.

As part of Electrolux, we will continuously invest in you and your development. There are no barriers to where your career could take you.

Find out more:

• https://career.electroluxgroup.com/global/en