Supply Chain Planning Manager

Description Manage a team of planners to support a Sales, Inventory, and Operations Planning (SIOP) process to ensure alignment between sales needs and product availability including a monthly executive team report for final decision-making and alignment. Requirements Responsible for managing a broad, highly mixed, and technical category of parts, materials, and supplies while maintaining inventory at an appropriate level to achieve both on-time service and inventory targets. Maintain accurate inventory levels for all assigned parts and categories while driving towards optimal levels to meet the needs of the business. Create forward-looking purchase and inventory projections to support cash flow forecasts and working capital requirements. Communicate issues with material availability to the Sales, Customer Service, and Marketing teams along with issues achieving customer requested ship dates. Ensure efficient planning of new product promotions, new product introductions, and product discontinuations. Develop and maintain required planning, purchasing records, and performance reports including Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) and progress. Maintain current, accurate, open-order status of all purchases to ensure continuity of supply and communicate any supply problems which may pose a risk or impact on business operations. Monitor the health of inventory levels including creating forward looking visibility to potential material shortages to communicate proactively to Sales and Customer Service. Direct purchase order creation on a timely and economical basis with the best combination of price, quality, and delivery. Monitor status of open purchase orders to ensure on-time delivery of all materials, including timely resolution, communication, and mitigation of future potential issues. Knowledge/Skills/Abilities Prior people management experience including priority setting, decisiveness, performance reviews, coaching, and development. Ability to “Think like the customer and deliver” is required. Develop collaborative relationships with Sales, Customer Service, Product Management, Marketing, & Warehouse Management to improve service levels while lowering days-on-hand and meeting customer satisfaction. Being a great Team player is a must have. Ability to delve into ERP system functionality, test solutions in Sandbox, read support documentation to fully grasp the most optimal way to fine-tune the system to work for us in the most effective and efficient way possible. Ability to independently troubleshoot issues/concerns, generate solutions and recommend a course of action that solves the underlying issue/concern. Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to effectively and efficiently communicate and present to senior management through reports and presentations, simple and clear verbal, and written communication. Wholesale Distribution, Manufacturing and/or Commercial Products work experience highly preferred. Ability to multi-task and demonstrate a strong sense of urgency for critical items. Ability to plan effectively to meet required inventory targets. Ability to train others in the use of Inventory Optimization processes and tools. Ability to read, analyze and interpret documents such as general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Must be proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), especially Microsoft Excel. Must have a high level of independent judgment and analytical and leadership skills. Education/Experience Bachelor’s degree from four-year college or university required. A minimum of 5 years’ experience supply chain functions such as planning, scheduling, purchasing, demand planning, and data analysis. Experience with Oracle NetSuite is highly preferred. Must have demonstrated experience with MRP/ERP systems. Six Sigma or similar continuous improvement training highly preferred. APICS / ISM certification preferred (CPM, CPIM, CPP, CPSM). Functional Requirements While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and color vision. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet. #J-18808-Ljbffr