Supply Chain Planner

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain short/long-term production planning and manage overall needs for the business, aligning with sales forecasts and product lifecycles.
• Optimize and prioritize production schedule to ensure we are best utilizing our assets to meet business goals and objectives.
• Maintain long-term category strategy and supplier vision to provide strategy to leadership on build/deliver actionable business plans.
• Lead weekly meetings with workshops to ensure adherence to production plan & timely outputs to support stock build needs. Communicate risks that arise from plan deviations.
• Create and distribute weekly production loads from workshops and ensure all elements are maintained based on SOP.
• Ensure that production and shipping schedules are aligned with distribution centers' needs to support all sales channels.
• Maintain the level of stock in-store and online (AVR, Sell-through, etc.). Ensure availability during peak periods defined by the region.
• Assist in deployment of new product launch distribution to stores.
• Calculate manual replenishment orders as needed to supplement store shipments.
• Perform weekly and monthly stock consolidations within the retail network.
• Initiate reverse logistics when needed, following the lifecycle of the products and long-tail analysis.
• Maintain stock accuracy and implement action plan when needed.
• Update and create weekly stock policy reports for Planning teams and ensure key stock initiatives are represented.
• Create visual assets and guides to support Supply Chain communications.
• Assist Planning Manager and Demand Planner in ad hoc pricing projects, sales analyses, and forecasting.
• Analyze data to identify areas of supply chain operations to improve efficiency.
• Manage inventory of non-salable collaterals (e.g., gift boxes, shopping bags) and VM props.
• Partner with stores to forecast collateral needs and collaborate with Central team on deliveries to region.
• Replenish store collaterals monthly.
• Coordinate with regional VM Manager and Logistics department to ensure timely reception and network distribution of VM props for launches and display refreshes.
• Assist in deploying regional level processes and tools defined with the Supply Chain community for all categories.
• Ideate and build dashboards to simplify existing workflows.
• Work in synergy with the Supply Chain team on all projects. Show initiative to bring new ideas and processes for constant cross-category optimization.
• Coordinate with logistics team on solutions to speed up flows of priority merchandise.
• Cognizance of nuance around process, data, systems to drive decisions making. Challenge and propose improvements on existing processes and tools.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree, business, analytics, merchandising, or related field.
• 3+ years of experience, ideally in Supply Chain, Merchandising or Analytics.
• Collaborative with exceptional problem solving & critical thinking skills.
• Entrepreneurial and results oriented. Strong work ethic.
• Capacity to work in collaboration with various departments: sales, logistics, finance, central supply chain, marketing.
• Exceptional skills with Microsoft Excel, analytics, and data crunching in general.
• Proven success managing a line building process and meeting associated metrics (margins, revenue goals, etc.); Demonstrated experience developing and managing assortments.
• Ability to work under deadlines, manage multiple priorities, work independently, take initiative, and pay close attention to detail.
• Proven experience building compelling and engaging data visualization and presentation.
• Exceptional verbal, written and communication skills.
• High proficiency of Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.
• Ability to travel up to 20% (2x/quarter) a year to US & Canada markets.