Supply Planner

Supply Planner

Location: Bedford Park, IL, US

Company Name: Univar Solutions USA LLC

Requisition ID: 35492

Job Description

The Supply Planner position is a highly visible supply chain role that's charged with coordinating and optimizing the inventory planning and procurement cost across the supply chain network. What you'll do:

• Ability to balance the sometimes-conflicting goals of inventory targets, target customer service levels, forecast accuracy, and safety stock requirements for the allocated portfolio of SKU's for which they are assigned.
• Key liaison to resolve supply issues and ensures the efficient delivery of inventory, service and cost objectives.
• Identify ways to improve supply planning processes by applying current tools.
• Responsible for ensuring accuracy of all purchase order data to support the Sales, Operations & Transportation Teams
• Meet customer demand and regional performance objectives.
• Proactively use MRP's and other tools to review inventory projections & supply-demand summaries to prevent potential shortages or excessive inventory and demurrage
• Keep track of inventory levels and make suggestions on inventory parameters
• Ability to assess purchasing options, optimizing loads via combining various products onto a single order, pre-ordering as needed to reduce costs.
• Works with product marketing management on overall supply direction
• Review out of stock situations or shortage of supply issues and recommends mitigations.
• Uses exception reports to identify and resolve potential out of stock issues
• Conducts business and performance reviews with key suppliers on an ad-hoc basis
• Tracks and reconciles weekly/monthly metrics versus established targets

Qualifications

What you'll need:

• Bachelor's degree in business, Mathematics, Supply Chain/Operations, Finance or other related field, preferred
• Strong Excel skills required and experience with data manipulation - including graphs, pivots, vlookups, etc.
• Knowledge of integrated planning software highly desirable
• Must possess very strong analytical skills and be detailed oriented
• Commit to process improvement and ability to perform root cause analysis
• SAP experience preferred

Where You'll Work

This is a hybrid based role that will report out of our Bedford Park, IL location - 8500 W 68th Street Bedford Park, IL 60501

Pay & Benefits

The salary range for this position is $58,420 - $73,030. The specific salary offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including the candidate's relevant experience, education, training, certifications, qualifications, and work location. Available employee benefits include health, vision, and dental. We also provide 401k matching for retirement and paid time off.

What You Can Expect

Strong work/life flexibility To be surrounded by an inclusive team who is collaborative and committed to the achievement of the company To be rewarded for your contributions with a targeted annual company bonus (if applicable to your role) and annual salary reviews Competitive pay and benefits