Senior Material Requirements Planner (Mrp)

Days tend to mix MRP runs, complex sourcing decisions, junior-planner mentoring, and the steady cadence of cross-functional coordination — running MRP and reviewing exception messages, leading sourcing decisions on critical components, mentoring junior planners, working with operations and engineering on material strategy. You're often the senior materials voice when supply-chain risk surfaces at scale. Material availability and inventory health are the operating measures.

The harder part is often the cumulative complexity of multi-level BOMs — a single end-item planning miss can cascade through subassemblies and components, and senior planners own the holistic view. Variance across employers runs wide: at large discrete manufacturers MRP planning is structured with mature ERP support; at smaller operations the work depends on the planner's personal system knowledge.

The role tends to suit people who are systems-thinkers, supply-chain fluent, and patient with constraint-based planning. CPIM, CSCP, and APICS credentials anchor advancement. The trade-off is the disruption frequency — even senior plans collapse under supplier delays, engineering changes, and demand swings, and the senior planner absorbs the rescheduling.