Materials Planning Advisor

Dell has been active in Slovakia since January 2003. We started as a centre of sales and customer support and transfer into a business centre supporting the whole EMEA region and the main financial hub of Dell, globally. We offer a broad palette of positions in IT, finance, sales, marketing, data science, technical support and business process support.
We are very honored and humbled to receive 3rd place in an annual 'best employer' survey conducted by Profesia amongst Shared Service Centers in Slovakia for the year 2018. Join our team and be part of life at Dell.

Our marketing department in Bratislava is considered of being a key hub of decision for running EMEA and worldwide marketing strategies. We are supporting global marketing activities across all product domains and variety of sub-functions including product life cycle management, pricing, merchandising, planning and operations.

Key Responsibilities
• Ensure Continuity of Supply.
• Manage the supply-chain manufacturing cycle time/lead time for your commodities.
• Manage demand sensing and demand shaping solutions.
• Monitor forecast versus actual bookings and make adjustments as required.
• Provide options for part shortages & supply-chain challenges.
• Communicate forecasting issues to appropriate groups and ensure revisions are made to forecast within the specified time.
• Supply-chain reporting and planning metrics management.

Essential Requirements
• Energy and enthusiasm for delivering to commitments as part of a global supply-chain team..
• Excellent working knowledge of Excel. An awareness of supply-chain planning/reporting systems is a distinct advantage (Oracle, SAP, Hyperion).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills (English) with good opportunities to present to management teams.
• Is able to work autonomously with considerable latitude to meet and beat the objectives of the role.
• Ability to identify and manage planning process improvements.
• Good business acumen skills. Excellent verbal and communication skills.
• Educated to degree level preferably in Business, Engineering or Operations Management. 3 years’ experience in Supply Chain including relevant experience in supply-chain, distribution, planning and forecasting.

Desirable Requirements
• Analaytics Skillset - Tableau. Power BI
• Excellent Technical and Product Knowledge
• Automation / AI (RPA) skillset