Senior NPI Materials Planner
UK-based AI and robotics company building commercially scalable humanoid robots for industrial deployment.
Funding history
About Humanoid
Humanoid develops industrial humanoid robots and its proprietary KinetIQ AI framework for real-world tasks across manufacturing, logistics, and related environments.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will own material readiness for prototype and early-production builds. You will translate demand and build plans into prioritised purchasing requirements, manage supply constraints and planning data, run material-readiness reviews, and coordinate with procurement, engineering, production, inventory, logistics, and transformation stakeholders. You will establish scalable planning processes, improve planning tools, resolve complex supply issues, and coach buyers and junior planners.
Requirements
- 10+ years of supply, materials, or buy-side planning experience in complex manufacturing
- Experience in prototype and early-build environments
- Knowledge of production and demand planning
- MRP planning experience, including netting, pegging, time fences, and lot sizing
- Experience supporting procurement with long-lead and constrained supply bases
- Experience in low-volume, high-mix, and NPI environments
- Experience managing ECOs and revision control
- Experience planning across multiple sites and regions
- ERP or MRP system experience
- Advanced Excel or Google Sheets
- SQL
- Power BI, Looker, or a similar BI tool
- PLM and BOM management tool experience
- Google Workspace
- Slack
Responsibilities
- Build and own the buy-side material-planning approach
- Own material readiness from engineering release to parts availability
- Establish the demand-to-supply planning interface
- Feed supply constraints into the S&OP cycle
- Set planning strategies for long-lead, single-source, and critical components
- Develop planning tools, data, and future ERP/MRP requirements
- Build a repeatable planning framework for changing BOMs and ECOs
- Plan material to a six-week design and build cadence
- Prepare material plans for Gamma and contract manufacturing partners
- Run regular MRP-style planning and resolve exceptions
- Maintain and share a prioritised weekly material plan
- Communicate available material configurations for planned builds
- Consolidate demand for builds, spares, repairs, service stock, and pilots
- Maintain commodity and subsystem lead-time data
- Run weekly material-readiness reviews and recommend shortage recovery actions
- Assess ECO and BOM-revision impacts on orders and stock
- Validate supplier lead times, MOQs, lot sizes, and delivery commitments
- Maintain planning master-data accuracy
- Track open POs, inbound deliveries, in-transit stock, and customs clearance
- Report on material coverage, shortages, supplier performance, lead-time variance, and inventory exposure
- Lead resolution of complex material-supply problems
- Coach buyers and junior planners
- Deputise for the Senior Manager – WILP when required
Benefits
- Stock options
- 30+ paid days off
- Private healthcare
- Pension scheme with 8% total contribution
- Free daily breakfast, catered lunch, and in-office snacks