Contract Production Planner Job at Fox Racing, Irvine, CA

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  • Fox Racing
  • Irvine, CA

Job Description

Position Summary:

The Contract Production Planner’s role is to issue, maintain, and monitor purchase orders for assigned vendors to ensure on-time delivery. Maintaining an accurate order book is key to the success of this role. Planner will communicate buy plans and confirm key production information with vendors prior to purchase orders (PO) issuance. This role is responsible for all communication with vendors in regard to current and future PO’s. The role works closely with cross functional teams in demand planning, product development, sales operations, and traffic.

Essential Functions of this Role:

The essential duties and responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to:

  • Facilitate all communication in a timely manner with all vendors and the organization concerning current and future orders
  • Issue global production schedule to assigned vendors and maintain accurate production information
  • Issue all production and sample PO’s to assigned vendors
  • Reconcile purchase orders with purchase requisitions to ensure 100% PO issuance/accuracy
  • Track vendor acceptance of PO’s through vendor proforma invoices or signed PO’s within 1 week of PO issuance.
  • Ensure all dates, pricing, and quantities are accepted by vendors
  • Closely monitor WIP reports to identify delays and communicate any potential delays to the production planning manager and all stakeholders
  • Maintain and distribute seasonal reports to the production planning and all stakeholders
  • Ensure accurate ex-factory and delivery dates are continuously maintained in SAP throughout the production/transit window
  • Work closely with Fox Asia team to verify/track production information within WIP report.
  • On occasion, approve bookings with freight forwarder for USA and Canada PO’s
  • Work with traffic team to ensure timely delivery to warehouse.
  • Monitor/enforce vendor adherence to vendor manual.
  • Work with accounting on discrepancies between PO price and invoice price

Competencies:

  • Well-organized
  • Communicates effectively; written and verbal
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
  • Detail oriented with attention to accuracy
  • Results driven

Supervisory Responsibilities:

  • None

Work Environment:

  • This job operates with a hybrid work from home and office model

Physical Demands:

  • May be required to work more than 8 hours during a workday
  • Sitting for long periods of time
  • Significant manual dexterity for keying in data for long periods of time

Expected Hours of Work:

  • Must be available during standard business hours
  • Occasional meetings after 5pm with overseas vendors and/or Fox Asia team

Travel :

  • None

Required Education, Experience and Skills:

  • Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience in a planning role
  • Microsoft works fluency, in particular Excel
  • Understands ERP MRP (SAP, JDE, MAS90, Epicor, MYOB for example)
  • 2-3 years of consumer-packaged goods experience

Other Duties:

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Job Tags

Seasonal work, Home office, Overseas,

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