Assistant Manager/Manager - Supply Planner - Consulting Firm

Inviting applications for the role of Supply Planner/ Assistant Manager/Manager - Supply Planning!

- Strong understanding of supply chain and supply planning business drivers, organization structures and key metrics. Well-developed interpersonal / communication skills.

- Ability to balance priorities across multiple internal and external stakeholders

- Ability to learn new systems quickly and leverage systems and information to influence others

- Understand supply chain & procurement principals.

- Experience in multi-echelon inventory optimization

Responsibilities :

- Balance resources vs requirements

- Seasonal / LTO supply planning: Analyze historical data, LTO effectiveness

- Supply planning response to customer / product segmentation: Initial analysis & updates

- Support monthly and Sales and Operations Planning workbooks for Product Business Teams

- Analyze and review inventory stocking policies and strategies quarterly in order to minimize spoilage, maximize service, and maximize inventory turns

- Analyze inventory investment costs and trends to ensure they are in alignment with departmental and company objectives

- Analyze total delivered costs (manufacturing and distribution) and recommend and implement changes process and strategy to achieve lowest Supply Chain cost

- Provide inventory management support

- Maintain consolidated view of inputs across manufacturing, materials, and logistics

- Ensure fill rates goals are met or any variance minimized according to received prioritization logic for constrained capacity

- Plan material actions to ensure production needs can be met, minimizing shortages to ensure customer delivery targets are met

- Support creation of a monthly supply review meeting- S&OP support

Qualifications we seek in you!

Minimum Qualifications :

- Bachelor's degree in business administration (or educational equivalent), Operations Management, Supply Chain Management, engineering or related field

- MBA preferred

- Experience in Job Offered, Fulfillment Planning, or related field (which experience must have included supply chain or fulfillment planning experience with perishable materials or materials having a short shelf life, advanced planning systems for enterprise resource planning, and financial analysis and network modeling.

- Experience with Blue Yonder and/or other Advance Planning System experience preferred

- APICS affiliation and/or certification

- Ability to work in a multicultural environment.

- Working knowledge of any of the ERP & Planning systems like Kinaxis is Mandatory etc