Inventory Planner Ii

3 weeks ago

Houston, United States LyondellBasell Industries Full time

Location: Houston, TX, US, 77010- Req ID: 85946- Facility: One Houston Center-130- Department: Inventory Plng & Sched, Olefins & Fuels- Division: Olefins and Polyolefins, Refining and SuLyondellBasell

**Basic Function**:
Supply Chain is a customer-focused Center of Excellence providing industry-leading service while delivering differential value to the business, today and into the future. We separate our Supply Chain functions into several areas; these include logistics, customer fulfillment, services, trade compliance, and support for business processes and systems.

This position may support the Intermediates & Derivatives (I&D), Fuels or Olefins business and will be located in Downtown Houston at our North American headquarters. The position offers a competitive base salary, bonus, 401K matching, generous benefits package, pension plan, parking subsidy and employee discounts.

**Roles & Responsibilities**:

- Provide guidance and model best practices to Level II Inventory Planners to resolve customer, supplier, or business related problems.
- Manage inventory to fulfill customer orders for more complex products or shipping locations while using optimum transportation modes to ensure on-time shipping and lead time, focusing on meeting and exceeding customer expectations.
- Where applicable, act as a tolling SME and work with third party tolling facilities to coordinate daily activities between the business, operations planning, and suppliers.
- Operating with an effective collaboration approach by facilitating communication across 3PL providers, internal Supply Chain contacts and the business - including, but not limited to operations planning, commercial management, and manufacturing to provide answers regarding product availability. Proactively provide solutions to time-sensitive needs in a composed manner.
- Manage products in-transit, third party inventory storage, and exchange agreements (where applicable).
- Partner with inventory accounting to accurately reconcile inventory at the conclusion of each month.
- Identify and implement programs which reduce cost, increase efficiency, and align procedures.
- Facilitate efforts on problem resolution and root cause analysis of quality and service incidents while involving others as appropriate to accomplish the task. Identify existing gaps and/or errors, and lead corrective actions in conjunction with marketing, manufacturing, customers, suppliers, and inspectors (where applicable).
- Lead LYB efforts to monitor and achieve continuous improvement in Regional Distribution Center / terminals / plants regarding quality, service, and cost performance.
- Analyze complex data, identify trends and anomalies, and present findings in a clear format.
- Document and maintain processes, procedures, benchmarks, and analyses performed while actively assessing opportunities for continuous improvement..
- Understand relationships across order fulfillment and/or material master data. Lead corrective actions in conjunction with master data team.
- Demonstrate advanced knowledge of the Enterprise system (SAP), extended system tools, while driving team members / 3PL providers toward full utilization of these tools.
- Operate with a solution-oriented mindset with regard to process improvements; Lead change implementation for extended system improvements or other customer fulfillment projects.
- Model LyondellBasell core competencies with internal and external customers.

**Min. Qualifications**:

- Experience with SAP material movement and inventory reconciliation transactions is highly desired
- Strong analytical skills. Comfortable consolidating and analyzing data in Microsoft Excel, as well as utilizing statistical forecasting and modeling.

**Preferred Qualifications**:

- Complex problem resolution abilities.
- Must demonstrate effective communication skills, both oral and written.
- Able to maintain professionalism and prioritize responsibilities in a high-volume, fast-paced environment.
- Composed in time-sensitive situations, comfortable delivering difficult news.
- Order fulfillment experience with direct order management or logistics coordination.
- Knowledge of transportation tracking systems, inventory management tools, and an understanding of the manufacturing/production process.
- Experience using BW, Power BI, Tableau, and other analytical tools is a plus.
- Able to conduct research, prepare comprehensive reports, and present complex financial and statistical information in a clear and succinct fashion.

**Competencies**:

- Build Partnerships
Deliver Results
Drive Innovation
Grow Capabilities
Promote Inclusion
Motivational/Cultural Fit
Technical Skills

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