Supply Planner/Scheduler

About the role

Supply Planning responsible for managing a global supply plan for assigned products to maximize service levels to customers and optimize working capital spend.

Responsibilities

• Execute deployment and allocation in short supply situations; translate business and inventory needs into supply requirements
• Engage with other worldwide planning organization on management of long-term product supply shortages (e.g., temporarily reduce inventory targets to automate propagation and distribution of materials with shortages, create manual allocation to regions to allow fair share deployment and intercompany shipments)
• Facilitate North America manufacturing plants supply reviews and represent global information; ensure timely collection and review of appropriate information required for this forum to accurately determine global production plan
• Interface with all regional demand planners and supply planners for assessment and understanding of their needs
• Support worldwide Supply Chain key initiatives to accomplish best-in-class forecast accuracy, back order performance, and line fill rates
• Support continuous improvement and cost reduction or efficiency initiatives of the assigned platform
• Support the business launch strategy from a supply chain point of view (start-up of lines for stock build, shelf life management, etc.)
• Responsible for achieving global performance metrics of Back order, Line fill, and Inventory levels of its portfolio
• Consolidate and challenge regional input for the annual volume planning process
• Work with regional supply chain teams to achieve an optimal distribution network and maintain a key coordination point with local warehouse management and transportation functions

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain, Industrial Engineering, Logistics, or Operations required with a minimum of 5 years of related experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Experienced and demonstrated working knowledge of ERP/SAP/MRP systems
• Strong data analytics experience
• Experience with inventory management
• Knowledge and awareness of Lean techniques and Six Sigma
• Strong interpersonal skills in verbal and written communications, customer focus, and professionalism
• Strong listening, questioning, problem-solving, and assessment skills
• Must have knowledge of demand, supply, and capacity planning
• Demonstrated customer-centric focus
• Detail-oriented with strong ability to manage multiple priorities
• Proficient in MS Excel, including pivot tables, vlookups, graphs, and macros (a plus)
• Advanced knowledge of data visualization tools (Power BI, QlikView, Tableau, etc.) (a plus)
• APICS Certification (a plus)

Pay

$20-25/hr

Schedule

40 hours/week