supply chain specialist/material planner (1 year-fixed contract).

This is a maternity leave cover position for a period of 12 months.
Your main responsibilities:
• Manage the flow of materials from suppliers to the warehouse in order to satisfy customer orders.
• Perform purchase order management activities, by effectively communicating with the factories on a daily basis, including rescheduling, expediting and cancelling of orders.
• Maintain effective communication with all related parties; suppliers, forwarders, and the custom broker, while managing various types of trade operations such as import, export, transit trade, drop-shipment, and delivery at the customs.
• Compile import related costs (freight, customs, etc.) of each shipment and accurately report them to the Accounting Department.
• Manage goods receiving process in SAP and address any discrepancies with suppliers.
• Support the Supply Chain Manager in managing 3rd party customs broker in daily operations.
• Collaborate with all stakeholders in gathering the necessary documents which are needed for customs clearance and post market audits (CE declarations and test reports).
• Provide accurate expected delivery dates for inquiries received from Sales Department on potential orders/projects.
• Do the initial review for customer return requests and involve the SCM and the Country Sales Manager for commercial decisions where necessary.
• Execute system transactions for material returns and buybacks from customers.
• Monitor samples given to the customers and follow up on the return of goods back to stock or invoicing of the customers.
• Organize reverse logistics of defected products for repair or credit purposes.