Planning Officer

Role Objectives

• Follow up order enquiry from Melbourne office and Merchandising team

• Ensure factory’s production is on schedule

• Work with factory to meet cargo ready date (delivery date) to achieve the OTFI result >95%

• Monitor the new item development schedule to meet the market requirements and launch date

• Frequent travel in Southeast Asia region for factory visits to review production and ensure ramp up can meet our shipment schedules

Responsibilities:

• Plan and prepare master schedule to establish sequence and lead time of each order to meet shipping dates according to sales forecasts or customer orders.

• Analyze production specifications and performs mathematical calculations to determine tools capacity and requirements.

• Confer with department supervisors to determine status of assigned projects.

• Expedite factory that delay schedules and alters schedules to meet unforeseen conditions.

• Prepare all related reporting in systems.

• Prepare purchase orders to vendor for fulfil customer orders.

• Review and control FGMA / MAR release to avoid excess materials.

• Control and minimize the liabilities exposure.

• Vendor Quote & Pricing in coordination with Procurement Team.

• Manage packaging materials reports & lab test reports update (DOI Planning).

• Travelling required.

Key Capabilities:

Relating & Networking:

Create win-win partnerships with others. Relates to others in a confident and relaxed manner. Establishes good relationships with customers and employees; relates well to people at all levels; builds wide and effective networks of contacts; uses humour appropriately to bring warmth to relationships with others.

Achieving Personal Work Goals & Objectives:

Seeks progression to roles of increased responsibility and influence; identifies own development needs and makes use of developmental or training opportunities. Driving improvements including personal work goals and objectives.

Delivering Results & Meeting Customer Expectations:

Driving improvements for business results, including personal work goals and objectives. Focuses on customer needs and satisfaction; sets high standards for quality and quantity; monitors and maintains quality and productivity; works in a systematic, methodical and orderly way; consistently achieves project goals.

Presenting & Communicating with Impact:

Communicates for impact, clarity and connection. Speaks fluently; expresses opinions, information and key points clearly; makes effective use of processes to influence and persuade others; promotes ideas on behalf of oneself and others; makes a strong personal impact on others; takes care to manage one’s impression on others.

Applying expertise and Technical Capability:

Has the functional and technical knowledge and skills to do the job well and applies this expertise accordingly. Quickly learns new technology.

Relating & Networking:

Create win-win partnerships with others. Relates to others in a confident and relaxed manner. Establishes good relationships with customers and employees; relates well to people at all levels; builds wide and effective networks of contacts; uses humour appropriately to bring warmth to relationships with others.

Achieving Personal Work Goals & Objectives:

Seeks progression to roles of increased responsibility and influence; identifies own development needs and makes use of developmental or training opportunities. Driving improvements including personal work goals and objectives.

Delivering Results & Meeting Customer Expectations:

Driving improvements for business results, including personal work goals and objectives. Focuses on customer needs and satisfaction; sets high standards for quality and quantity; monitors and maintains quality and productivity; works in a systematic, methodical and orderly way; consistently achieves project goals.

Presenting & Communicating with Impact:

Communicates for impact, clarity and connection. Speaks fluently; expresses opinions, information and key points clearly; makes effective use of processes to influence and persuade others; promotes ideas on behalf of oneself and others; makes a strong personal impact on others; takes care to manage one’s impression on others.

Applying expertise and Technical Capability:

Has the functional and technical knowledge and skills to do the job well and applies this expertise accordingly. Quickly learns new technology.

Contacts: Have frequent contact with the following internal and external parties:

Internal:

Moose Australia: Product Management team, Global Planning team, Business Development team

Moose Far East: Engineering – Project Management team, Quality - QA/QC team, Procurement team, Merchandizing team, Shipping team, Finance team

External:

Vendors (all with manufactured of Moose items)

Suppliers (all types of materials related to product)

Qualifications

• College graduated or above

• 2+ years working experience as production planner, with related industrial knowledge of production planning and quality control principles

• Working experience on ERP System such as SAP, JDE, etc.

• Experience knowledge on MS-Excel/ Power Point/ Power BI preferred

• Good command of English language

• Ability to communicate in Mandarin is an advantage

Core Values:

We’re a family, who is Outrageously playful, with Wild imagination.'

• We’re a family

- We demonstrate kindness as part of the Moose family – treating others the way we want to be treated. We’re all about welcoming your wacky, weird and wonderful self at work!

- Moosies pride themselves on taking personal responsibility for their actions and outcomes, always acting ethically, professionally, and with a smile.

- We know there is no ‘I’ in TEAM and are committed to hitting team goals way out of the park.

- We’ve got each other’s backs – we support each other with no politics or personal agendas.

• Outrageously playful

- All Moosies use play to stimulate thinking and innovation – applying learnings across all initiatives.

- We think outside the toy box to keep things super FUN.

- We consistently give 100% to put the punch in our products and services.

- We keep our energy up so there’s a great buzz around the place all the time – helping to foster great ideas and ensuring strong productivity.

• Wild imagination

- We’re prepared to share the kooky and the creative in brainstorming sessions, to bring the best Moose to market.

- Moosies put heart and soul into innovating and delivering the best toys ever.

- We elicit infectious enthusiasm, are non-judgemental, value diversity of thinking and the benefits this brings, and are open to all WOW ideas.

- We keep on trend and across new technologies so we can bring this knowledge to the playroom.