Material Planner

Primary Responsibilities

• Works with Program team to ensure a streamlined procurement process of materials against program requirements to include using a credit card for micro purchases.
• Works with programs in generating material requirements and providing the necessary support of acquisition plans from start to finish.
• Works across multiple government and Leidos systems in a fast-paced environment.
• Maintains reports and monitors material movement throughout manufacturing and inventory sequences.
• Captures forecasts, workload, expediting, and acquisition priority with commodity/category team leadership.
• Provides advice to programs as to proper routes to acquire materials that will be to the greatest benefit of the program.
• Analyzes material requirements for leveraging opportunities, supplier recommendations, acquisition planning.
• Engages supply chain (vendor to manufacturing) to determine optimal acquisition strategy.
• Manages production and delivery schedules.

  Basic Qualifications

  • Typically requires a BA degree and 4 - 8 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 2 - 6 years of prior relevant experience.
  • Candidates with experience in procurement AND/OR a combination of certifications, training, education, or military experience will be considered in lieu of degree.
  • Active Top Secret/SCI with Polygraph clearance is required to be considered.
  • Microsoft Office knowledge and skills.
  • Ability to prioritize multiple tasks and work across multiple systems simultaneously.
  • Attention to detail.
  • Good organization and communication skills.
  • Basic Excel experience (Create workbooks, create formulas, applying formats, sort, and filter data, etc…).
  • Prior inventory control experience.
  • Ability to effectively communicate processes and procedures to customer base.
  • Possess outstanding customer service skills in order to meet high demand requirements.
  • Ability to travel between local sites on occasion to coordinate activities.
  • Ability to understand technical concepts and apply that understanding to daily procurement and program support requirements.
  • Self-starter that can establish priorities, resolve immediate issues, and coordinate with program manager on complex problems.
  • Strong interpersonal skills to maintain effective working relationships with team members and customer.
  • Strong oral and written communication skills to compose and deliver responses to customers’ questions in a clear and concise manner.

  Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience in a similar role executing on time deliveries of hardware and software; interacting with key suppliers; dealing with the financial impacts of supplier decisions on programs; and managing, tracking, and auditing existing hardware and software inventories.
  • Experience supporting procurement system compliance, materials management, prime contract flow downs, supplier quality, and supplier teaming to achieve successful results.
  • Experience working with price analysis methodologies.
  • Experience working with Commercial Supplier Agreements (CSAs) and End User License Agreements (EULAs).
  • Experience with IBM Maximo or Deltek.