Job Description
Material Planner, Service and After-Sales
The Lucid Service/After-Sales organization is looking to hire a skilled Material Planner to ensure service parts, sub-assemblies and accessories are delivered to Lucid Service Parts Distribution Centers to support our service needs at optimal efficiency. This individual must fully understand Lucid’s supply chain and service operations, as well as be an expert on their assigned product or commodities. They will deploy inventory strategies, be responsible for product change and associated material planning implications, manage and solve exceptions, and drive supplier execution.
This role involves daily management of supply and constraints, status reporting and escalation, supplier engagement and the relentless pursuit of operational excellence and continuous improvement. The Material Planner role requires global cross-functional engagement within Lucid and across the extended supply chain.
What You’ll Do
- Manage the planning and ordering of service parts, sub-assemblies and accessories. Create and deploy material supply requirements to internal and external supply base to support Lucid Service and After-Sales organization.
- Build and maintain operational partnerships with assigned suppliers. Act as the primary interface with suppliers and Lucid logistics/distribution on delivery status, issues and resolution. Escalate to commercial or technical partners when required (GSM, Accounts Payable, Quality, Engineering, etc.).
- Collaborate with Demand Planner to ensure demand from all sources - Lucid Service Centers, Body Shops, eCommerce, Vehicle Delivery, Engineering, Marketing and International Markets - are supported appropriately.
- Apply analytics and supply chain expertise to manage system parameters and meet target inventory and service level goals while minimizing costs and obsolescence.
- Coordinate supplier’s ramp up and down for new product launches, ensuring suppliers deliver shipments needed to support service/vehicle delivery targets.
- Deliver material coverage, run-out reports and other analyses as needed. Provide data-driven decision support to the broader organization through what-if and scenario planning (as examples).
- Manage engineering changes to minimize obsolete inventory and ensure continuous supply.
- Identify and lead process improvement projects related to execution and planned growth for our new product launches, including understanding BOM structures related to forecasting.
- Work closely with the GSM team to improve supplier performance and provide guidance into future purchasing strategies.
- Partner with IT and other business stakeholders on planning process and system improvements.
What You’ll Bring
- Bachelors’ education in Science, Engineering or Supply Chain. CPIM or APICS training is a plus.
- 1-2 years’ experience as Material Planner in a manufacturing-based industry.
- Strong knowledge of MRP/ERP operations with a deep understanding of New Product Introduction, Product Lifecycle Management and Supply Chain operations.
- Highly proficient in Microsoft Office: Excel, Word, Power Point, Outlook, etc.
- Demonstrated skills in supplier operational and relationship management.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills. Ability to analyze data to enable operational decision-making or present clear recommendations to leadership.
- Exceptional ability to interface and collaborate effectively with individuals, groups, and suppliers.
- Ability to multi-task, prioritize and work in an extremely fast-paced environment.
- Ability to write, speak and present effectively and persuasively.
- Passion to continuously develop, improve, and maintain processes.
Base Pay Range (Annual)
$81,600 - $122,400 USD
Geoff Partridge
The spirit of California moves us to think beyond mobility, and design for a world where life is the most important journey we’ll ever take; to look beyond tomorrow and shape a future where we no longer have to choose between doing great things and doing the right thing; and to explore beyond ourselves, and create experiences that remind us what it’s like to feel truly alive.
Sustainability
We aim to create sustainable mobility without compromise in cars that are intuitive, liberating, and designed for all the ways people get around. At Lucid, we place an exceptionally high priority on efficiency — our cars must make the best possible use of the world’s resources. So, every Lucid delivers exceptional range without sacrificing high performance or sublime comfort.
Leadership
Lucid’s leadership team brings to our Silicon Valley headquarters an extraordinary depth of knowledge and experience from the automotive and technology industries. They’re leading us forward to a more sustainable future as we use proprietary electric vehicle technology to reinvent the category for each type of car we build.
Careers
Come work alongside some of the most accomplished minds in the automotive and technology industries. Beyond competitive salaries, we are creating a community for innovators who want to make a significant — and immediate — contribution to the future of sustainable mobility.
Lucid Motors Factory
After evaluating over 60 sites in 13 states for the Lucid Motors factory, we chose a 500-acre property in Casa Grande, Arizona. Located between Phoenix and Tucson — and within easy reach of our Silicon Valley headquarters — the Casa Grande offered close proximity to critical utilities, an established transportation system, and strong support from state and local governments.
This facility is the first greenfield — or purpose-built — EV factory in North America. Designed to our exact specifications, it is being built with such efficiency and speed that we will complete construction of its first phase a mere 12 months after breaking ground. Outfitted with the world’s most advanced production line equipment, the factory will have the initial capacity to produce 10,000 cars a year — and over 300,000 annually with planned expansion.