Alliance Inventory Planner

Alliance Inventory Planner

Flexibility Option: Hybrid option available Job Req Id: 32481 Description: Be part of a growing, successful company in an exciting and challenging field. Border States is 100% employee-owned, which means you're empowered to make decisions, find solutions and receive rewards for your hard work. This position will be located in: Fargo, ND Application Deadline: September 14, 2026 Please note that the position may be filled before or after the listed application deadline. Applications will only be accepted while the posting remains active. Pay Range: *Individual compensation is determined based on several factors, including job-related skills and qualifications, education, relevant experience, work location, internal equity considerations, and the overall responsibilities of the position.

Job Summary

The Alliance Inventory Planner is responsible for adherence to the inventory management expectations of a set of key long-term contract "alliance" customers, including inventory turns and on-time delivery. Builds and maintains highly collaborative relationships with key alliance customer contacts and the sales teams that support them. Creates and communicates high-level demand plans for key product families based on analysis of available data and close coordination with customers. Develops a deep understanding of customer operations and plans to provide a tailored customer experience and optimize the balance of inventory service and performance.

Responsibilities

Essential Functions:

• Coordinates the development of alliance customer plans for product demand, stocking/replenishment status, and inventory stocking parameters such as reorder point, lead time, and order quantity.
• Integrates customer demand forecast information into Bthe forecasting process and technical tools.
• Engages alliance customers in joint problem solving for supply chain, demand planning, or material requirements planning challenges.
• Develops and executes inventory management plans to support alliance customer business expansion, capital projects, and new customer implementations.
• Coordinates product needs throughout the life cycle of large customer projects.
• Collaborates and shares information with other teams that service alliance customer relationships, such as purchasing, pricing, sourcing, project management, and marketing.
• Ensures alliance inventory business and data management processes align with dynamic customer needs and expectations which may include refinement of existing tools and processes or facilitating the design of a new tool and process.
• Monitors alliance contract KPIs, such as on-time delivery and inventory turns to identify trends and ensure that expectations are met or exceeded.
• Presents status and progress on alliance inventory KPIs, capital projects, initiatives to branch leadership, key customer contacts, and executives.
• Facilitates maintenance of alliance customer data, such as consigned inventory, customer part numbers, product standards changes and material transitions.
• Ensures new customer implementations, development of system strategies, and ongoing maintenance and improvement are in accordance with customer contracts and meet stated objectives.

Non-essential Functions:

• Assists utility purchasing team in storm response efforts for relevant alliance customer accounts.
• Coordinates and leads frequent inventory meetings with customers, branch leadership, account managers, demand planners, and buyers.
• Participates in vendor and product training.
• Performs other duties as assigned by supervisor or designate.

Qualifications

4-year business or technical degree or equivalent in work experience. 2+ years of experience in an inventory management, supply chain or demand/supply planning role. Experience in wholesale distribution or electrical wholesaling and electrical or natural gas utility products preferred. Solid understanding of demand planning and forecasting concepts (trending, seasonality, etc.), inventory management, and stocking parameters such as order points, lead times, and quantities. Experience with MS Excel/Access. Skills and Abilities Strong interpersonal, written and verbal communication, reading, and analytical skills. Ability to effectively lead, plan, organize, and negotiate. Excellent customer service skills include being competent, accurate, responsive, and engaged.

Physical Requirements

Frequency at which you would carry/lift in a typical day: Occasionally 0 33% Frequently 34 66% Continuously: 67 100% Lift from Waist: < than 10 lbs. - Not at all 10 to 25 lbs. - Not at all 26 to 50 lbs. - Not at all 51 to 75 lbs. - Not at all 75 to 100 lbs. - Not at all 100+ lbs. - Not at all Lift from Floor: < than 10 lbs. - Frequently 10 to 25 lbs. - Frequently 26 to 50 lbs. - Ocasionally 51 to 75 lbs. - Not at all 75 to 100 lbs. - Not at all 100+ lbs. - Not at all Carried for Distance: < than 10 lbs. - Not at all 10 to 25 lbs. - Not at all 26 to 50 lbs. - Not at all 51 to 75 lbs. - Not at all 75 to 100 lbs. - Not at all 100+ lbs. - Not at all Physical Activity Frequency at which you would do the following in a typical day: Sitting (a continuous period of being seated) - Continuously Standing (for sustained periods of time) - Frequently Walking (moving about on foot to accomplish tasks) - Frequently Bending/stooping (downward and forward) - Occasionally Crawling (moving about on hands and knees or hands and feet) - Not at all Climbing/Walking Stairs (ascending or descending) - Frequently Reaching (extending arms in any direction) - Frequently Crouching/squatting (bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine) - Occasionally Kneeling (bending legs at knee to come to rest on knee(s)) - Occasionally Balancing (maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling) - Occasionally Repetitive motion (substantial movement (motions) or the wrists, hands, and/or fingers) - Continuously Pivoting (movement in any direction with one foot, keeping the other in contact with the floor) - Occasionally Pushing/Pulling (using upper extremities to press against or draw or tug) - Occasionally Grasping (Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm) - Continuously Fingering (picking, pinching, typing; working with primarily fingers and not whole hand) - Continuously Talking (expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word) - Frequently Driving (the control and operation of a motor vehicle) - Occasionally Desk work (work usually performed at a desk) - Continuously Use of a computer - Continuously Use of a telephone - Frequently Hearing (Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels) - Continuously Exposure (to adverse weather & temperature conditions) - Not at all Travel (travel needed to perform job duties) - Occasionally

Additional Information

This job description is a summary of the job duties and responsibilities and is not intended to cover all possible job duties and is subject to change at the employer's discretion. Employees must be able to perform the essential job duties and satisfy job requirements either with or without a reasonable accommodation.