Sr Supply Planner
Our purpose is to positively impact people’s lives every day in every home around the world! We work very hard to provide our consumers with high-quality, exciting 5-star products that make life easier. We thrive on passion and innovation and are looking for great people, with great ideas, who want to build the next big thing and develop while they do.
OVERVIEW:
The Sr Supply Planner oversees and executes the global inventory planning and fulfillment process for a specific category(s) of products. The objective of this role will be to maximize service levels in all markets across the globe, maintain a healthy level of inventory, pivot in response to fluctuations in orders and forecasts, and represent the supply chain as a steward of inventory and cost.
Here are some of the EXCITING things you’ll get to do:
YOUR ROLE in leading our SUCCESS DRIVERS & representing our UNIQUE MINDSET
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OVERVIEW:
The Sr Supply Planner oversees and executes the global inventory planning and fulfillment process for a specific category(s) of products. The objective of this role will be to maximize service levels in all markets across the globe, maintain a healthy level of inventory, pivot in response to fluctuations in orders and forecasts, and represent the supply chain as a steward of inventory and cost.
Here are some of the EXCITING things you’ll get to do:
- 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. Incorporate new parameters and dates within the global inventory plans.
- Participate in demand and forecast reviews, ensuring assumptions are captured, demand priorities are clear, and forecasts are clearly understood and aligned. Incorporate forecasts into global inventory plans.
- 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.
- 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.
- Comfortable working in a multi-cultural, multi-lingual environment, and excited to work collaboratively with colleagues across the globe.
- Strong and curious analytical skillset, identifying patterns, exceptions to patterns, and identifying drivers of these outliers.
- Takes pride in quality of work, and comfortable operating in the detail (bottoms up), while ensuring mid-down and top-down assumption consistency.
- Flexible to manage time across pivots in task prioritization of one's self and the team and communicate for impact the necessary support to navigate through issues and challenges.
- Desire and capacity to learn new systems, processes, and guide others on the learning journey.
- Expertise in handling datasets within Microsoft Excel, and comfortable learning new planning and IT systems.
- Strong communication skills, capable of communicating for impact the key messages for an audience and associating asks through both oral and written mediums.
- Self-starter who thrives in ambiguity, demonstrates curiosity, and approaches work through a growth mindset.
- Bias for action and excited to use voice in meetings to cut through ambiguity and seek clarity.
- Fluency in English required.
- Supply Chain Certifications (CPIM, CSCP, etc.) considered a definite asset.
- Experience within a consumer goods industry highly desired.
YOUR ROLE in leading our SUCCESS DRIVERS & representing our UNIQUE MINDSET
- Lead us to be “RARELY SATISFIED”
- Make things better each day; “PROGRESS OVER PERFECTION”
- Use your knowledge of our consumer, understand that “DETAILS MAKE THE DIFFERENCE”
- Deliver something great; “WINNING IS A TEAM SPORT”
- Be clear and honest, “COMMUNICATING FOR IMPACT”
SharkNinja's Candidate Privacy Notice can be found here: https://www.sharkninja.com/candidate-privacy-notice/
We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability, or any other class protected by legislation, and local law. SharkNinja will consider reasonable accommodations consistent with legislation, and local law. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact SharkNinja People & Culture at accommodations@sharkninja.com
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