Material Planner

Description

Work Arrangement: This role is categorized as onsite. this means the successful candidate to report to the GM office full time.

The Role:
As the Material Planner you will be part of the Supply Chain team, you will be responsible for support in one of the key areas: manufacturing/warehouse operations, supply chain systems and processes, launch execution and scheduling and material management.

In this role you will act as a liaison between purchasing, engineering, warehousing/manufacturing, logistics and suppliers to resolve issues and to provide support.

What You'll Do:

• Executing work, you're doing in support of supply chain organization's business objectives.
• You will provide support of one of the key areas within Supply Chain.
• Ensure business objectives goals are achieved or exceeded in all areas including customer, quality, service, responsiveness, people, product and financial initiatives.
• You will be responsible for supporting relationship management and offering support to warehousing/manufacturing and suppliers.
• Position supports plans and issue resolution to ensure no or minimal impact to the supply chain.

Planning:

• Review monthly SAP plans.
• Investigate and fix SAP deviation for MRP run on part level.
• Release and communicate the delivery plan to local suppliers.
• Update the delivery plan timely based on the updated production sequence.
• Generate the monthly forecast for related local suppliers for 6 months with monthly update.
• Receive and analyze the imported material for all local Material/ Process Material and report risk items with deep action plan with the supplier to close the risk.

Follow Up:

• Review the daily shortage report for all production lines.
• Follow up on part level with local supplier and confirm the timely delivery.
• Establishes, modifies and monitors shipping of the in-consignment material (CKD, Local and PM).
• Support the local suppliers by having an interaction with overseas suppliers and source plants to support the local supplier recovering the high-risk shipments.
• Close monitoring for Material Expiry.
• Regular visits to supplier premises for follow-up and supplier improvement.

Reporting:

• Confirm/Issue SPPS's (Supplier practical problem solving) for late delivery issues.
• Report the delivery violation and follow up on the supplier action plan to eliminate it.
• Report the high-risk issues.
• Report the supplier KPI.
• Track and report the capacity issues.

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualification)

Educational and Experience Background:

• 1 or 2 years of experience in same field.
• Engineering, Business, or any related bachelor's degree.

Competencies:

• Strong cross-functional collaboration with manufacturing and support teams.
• Clear and effective communication
• Ability to influence and drive change without direct authority.
• Skilled in facilitating problem-solving and improvement discussions.
• Planning and follow up skills.
• Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills.

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Client-provided location(s): Cairo, Egypt

Job ID: General_Motors-JR-202612203

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2026-06-08T00:01:53