Material Planner

Lennox(NYSE: LII) is an industry leader in energy-efficient climate-control solutions founded over a century ago on the principles of integrity and innovation. Dedicated to sustainability and creating comfortable, healthier environments for our residential and commercial customers while reducing their carbon footprint, we lead the field in innovation with our cooling, heating, indoor air quality, and refrigeration systems.

Allied Air Enterprises is a division of Lennox International. We bring together the collective strengths of seven comfort brands – Armstrong Air, AirEase, Concord, Ducane, Allied, Allied Commercial and Magic-Pak to give distributors and dealers the ultimate source for heating and cooling solutions. From compact residential applications to large commercial projects, Allied Aire Enterprises redefines ease-of-business through breadth of product, resources, and competencies unparalleled in the market.

At Allied Air Enterprises, we're proof of how effective good people can be. We've based our entire business on hiring talented, dedicated professionals and giving them the resources needed to thrive. Having the right people can elevate the attitude, ideas, quality and commitment of any facility, and we're proud to say our employees do so every day. The dedication we have for promoting environmental sustainability through innovation is only possible due to our employees’ creativity and their desire to improve the world.We believe they help us create products that are better for homeowners, better for the environment, and better for the professional dealers who install them every day.

Hear from employees how we energetically go after our share of the market and uphold our values as we win:

Job Description

The successful candidate will:

• Determine the quality and order date for materials needed to meet the production needs.
• Initiate purchase or production requisitions as appropriate.
• Maintain appropriate inventory levels using MRP and reorder point planning.
• Manage the purchasing cycle, including converting requisitions to purchase order, PO follow up, material receipt, and invoice reconciliation.
• Develop and maintains supplier relationships Identifies and resolves supply issues.
• Expedite critical orders.
• Resolve invoice discrepancies, including pricing, unit of measure, and receiving discrepancies.
• Validate and meets the monthly inventory days of supply by product code and facilitates the reduction of excess inventory.
• Responsible for the key metrics of network and facing fill rates, days of supply and inventory versus plan.
• Coordinates with Sourcing, Demand Planning, Deployment Planning, and Material Master in planning executable inventory levels.
• May provide work direction to other Materials Planners.

Qualifications

• Requires a bachelor's degree. Requires at least 5 years related experience. APICS or equivalent certification preferred.
• Understands the product life cycle and underlying business planning requirements.
• Understands how role impacts the department and the organization and make system configuration recommendations to improve processes based on this understanding.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Good organization skills.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Solid Customer Relations skills.
• Inventory analysis proficiency; Strong analytical, mathematical and problem solving skills.
• Proficient in standard Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access).
• Expert with SAP or other advanced planning system Technology.
• Knowledge of Supply Chain Management, purchasing, inventory planning.