Material Planning Support Leader

At Alstom, we understand transport networks and what moves people. From high-speed trains, metros, monorails, and trams, to turnkey systems, services, infrastructure, signalling and digital mobility, we offer our diverse customers the broadest portfolio in the industry. Every day, 80,000 colleagues lead the way to greener and smarter mobility worldwide, connecting cities as we reduce carbon and replace cars.

Could you be the full-time Material Planning Support Leader in Astana we’re looking for?

Your future role

Take on a new challenge and apply your finance and supply chain expertise in a cutting-edge field. You’ll work alongside collaborative and proactive teammates.

You'll play a crucial role in ensuring timely delivery of materials, maintaining accurate ERP logistics parameters, and fostering strong supplier relationships. Day-to-day, you’ll work closely with cross-functional teams across the business (such as sourcing, procurement, and production), monitor supplier performance, and mitigate delivery issues through action plans, and much more.

You’ll specifically take care of plan-factual analysis and defining risk management strategy but also monitor material planning department performance.

We’ll look to you for:

• Managing small teams to achieve supply chain goals

• Share material planning team performance and KPIs
• Analyse, ensure and upate the accuracy of master data (SAP)

• Hard Inventory KPI and value follow, analyze, report and present

• Raw Material budget share and explain to Finances on weekly/monthly basis (actuals vs budget if needed)

• Overstock and deadstock analysis, coordinate other Departments if needed

• Drive impairment process with support and involvement of Departments

• ABC classification analysis and update quarterly

• Material parameters review, analyze and update quarterly

• GSI parameters update relating to material (safety time/batch size/abcd classification, etc

All about you

We value passion and attitude over experience. That’s why we don’t expect you to have every single skill. Instead, we’ve listed some that we think will help you succeed and grow in this role:

• Degree in Finance or Supply Chain

• Fluent English

• Understanding general Supply chain concepts

• ERP experience (articles configuration, orders management) or ERP architecture understanding (BOM, NCR) or ability to use ERP systems

• Analytical tools proficiency (Excel, Power Query, Power BI)

• Financial expertise, including analysis, planning

• Strong problem-solving and organizational skills

• Ability to work collaboratively and communicate effectively

Things you’ll enjoy

Join us on a life-long transformative journey – the rail industry is here to stay, so you can grow and develop new skills and experiences throughout your career. You’ll also:

• Enjoy stability, challenges, and a long-term career free from boring daily routines

• Work with new security standards for rail signaling

• Collaborate with transverse teams and helpful colleagues

• Contribute to innovative projects

• Utilise our dynamic and flexible working environment

• Steer your career in whatever direction you choose across functions and countries

• Benefit from our investment in your development, through award-winning learning

• Progress towards senior supply chain or logistics leadership roles

• Benefit from a fair and dynamic reward package that recognizes your performance and potential, plus comprehensive and competitive social coverage (life, medical, pension)

• Thrive with our quality of life perks, including corporate shuttlebus, meal allowance and 1Fit discount.

You don’t need to be a train enthusiast to thrive with us. We guarantee that when you step onto one of our trains with your friends or family, you’ll be proud. If you’re up for the challenge, we’d love to hear from you!

Important to note

As a global business, we’re an equal-opportunity employer that celebrates diversity across the 63 countries we operate in. We’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace for everyone.