Senior Supply Planner

Senior Supply Planner

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business or equivalent required, Supply Chain concentration highly desired
• Minimum 3 years of Supply Chain Planning experience
• Broad knowledge on supply chain process fundamentals and metrics, including demand planning, inventory planning, manufacturing, logistics and distribution
• Strong and curious analytical skillset, identifying patterns, exceptions to patterns, and identifying drivers of these outliers
• Expertise in handling datasets within Microsoft Excel, and comfortable learning new planning and IT systems
• Fluency in English required

Responsibilities

• Creation and updating of global inventory plans across specific categories, balancing supply chain constraints, demand priorities, overall inventory levels, and associating service impacts
• Manage priorities throughout the day and ensure the quality and timely completion of work and assigned tasks
• Collaboration with demand planning, production, logistics, sales, marketing and product development on a daily basis, acting as an orchestrator to ensure the best outcomes for SharkNinja
• Rally and lead planners through scenario development and day-to-day business challenges, bringing creativity and results driven action
• Purchase Order Management in alignment with the inventory plan, while 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 steward of the supply chain, challenging SKU proliferation, and ensuring lifecycles transition and launch dates, as well as ABC classifications are updated
• Participate in demand and forecast reviews, ensuring assumptions are captured, demand priorities are clear, and forecasts are clearly understood and aligned
• Participate in supply reviews, ensuring global constraints and opportunities are identified, and feasible options are developed to overcome any constraints, and/or capture opportunities are ready to decide and action
• Collaborate with the manager on the resolution of issues, aligning on a course of action and orchestrating across team of supply planners
• Monitor service levels and inventory levels, particularly in markets with excess or obsolete inventory, and collaborate 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 key cross functional team members with a focus on improving KPI’s and utilization of bandwidth
• Other tasks as assigned or aligned to by leadership, inclusive of running analytics, shaping business scenarios, or contributing to broader transformation throughout the team and organization

Preferred Qualifications

• Supply Chain Certifications (CPIM, CSCP, etc.) considered a definite asset
• Experience within a consumer goods industry highly desired