SUPPLY PLANNER

About the role

The Supply Planner executes global inventory planning and fulfillment strategies for specific product categories. The objective is to maximize service levels worldwide, maintain healthy inventory levels, respond to order and forecast fluctuations, and act as a steward of inventory and cost within the supply chain.

Responsibilities

• Creation and updating of global inventory plans across specific categories, balancing supply chain constraints, demand priorities, overall inventory levels, and associated service impacts.
• Manage daily priorities and ensure quality and timely completion of work and assigned tasks.
• Collaborate daily with demand planning, production, logistics, sales, marketing, and product development to orchestrate optimal outcomes.
• Purchase Order Management aligned with the inventory plan, monitoring and adjusting inventory flow for changes in demand, supply chain constraints, or alternative supply options such as reworks, substitutions, or transfers.
• Participate in portfolio reviews as a supply‑chain steward, challenging SKU proliferation, updating lifecycles, launch dates, and ABC classifications, and incorporating new parameters into global inventory plans.
• Participate in demand and forecast reviews, capturing assumptions, clarifying demand priorities, and integrating forecasts into global inventory plans.
• Participate in supply reviews, identifying global constraints and opportunities, developing feasible options to overcome constraints, and preparing actions to capture opportunities.
• Collaborate with the manager to resolve issues, align on courses of action, and orchestrate across the team of supply planners.
• Monitor service and inventory levels, especially in markets with excess or obsolete inventory, and work with sales, strategic sales, demand planning, marketing, and market leadership to develop corrective actions.
• Identify opportunities for process improvement, develop creative solutions, and lead improvement initiatives with cross‑functional teams to enhance KPIs and bandwidth utilization.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain (highly desired) or relevant experience.
• Minimum 1 year of supply chain planning experience.
• Supply chain certifications (CPIM, CSCP, etc.) considered a definite asset.
• Broad knowledge of supply chain fundamentals and metrics: demand planning, inventory planning, manufacturing, logistics, and distribution.
• Comfortable working in a multicultural, multilingual environment and collaborating globally.
• Strong analytical skillset—identifying patterns, exceptions, and drivers of outliers.
• Detail‑oriented with ability to maintain consistency across bottom‑up, mid‑down, and top‑down assumptions.
• Flexible time management to pivot priorities and communicate needed support.
• Desire and capacity to learn new systems and processes, and guide others.
• Expertise in handling datasets within Microsoft Excel and willingness to learn new planning/IT systems.
• Strong written and oral communication skills for impactful messaging.
• Self‑starter who thrives in ambiguity, demonstrates curiosity, and embraces a growth mindset.
• Bias for action; comfortable speaking up in meetings to cut through ambiguity.
• Fluency in English required.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts and Health Savings Accounts (with company contribution)
• 401(k) retirement plan with matching
• Employee stock purchase program
• Life insurance and AD&D coverage
• Short‑term and long‑term disability insurance
• Generous paid time off and company holidays
• Parental leave
• Identity theft protection
• Pet insurance
• Pre‑paid legal insurance
• Backup child and eldercare days
• Product discounts and referral bonus program
• Additional wellness programs and learning opportunities

Pay

Salary range: $66,300 — $103,500 USD (actual compensation may vary based on geography, skills, education, experience, and other qualifications).