SUPPLY CHAIN PLANNER

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

·      Understand the overall business landscape from suppliers, marketing, operation and supply chain

·      Develop demand forecast both normal and promotional items based on historical data/performance and market information by working closely with marketing/operation

·      Understand inventory position for each location and work closely with all related parties to optimize the inventory level. This includes the inventory analysis to suggest further actions to marketing/operation/supply chain.

·      Understand different replenishment strategy for different product segments from stores to distribution centers or suppliers

·      Develop supply plan to ensure product availability of each store at the optimum level (cost, service and inventory)

·      Develop, monitor and report cross supply chain key performance indicators (KPI’s) of cost, service and productivity

·      Develop “what-if” scenarios to model and analyze cost/service impacts across the Supply Chain

·      Lead the sale and operation planning meeting to ensure the alignment across supply chain

·      Lead the supply chain planning data management (lead time, order quantity, cost, store operation, storage space, etc.)

·      Build planning system and analysis tools and processes to ensure the logic and process to sustain the business outcomes

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain management, logistics, operations or engineering is preferred
• 3-5 years of inventory management or distribution management experience in high volume, fast paced seasonal or heavily promoted businesses (retail or consumer goods) is preferred
• Confident with managing and analyzing inventory and distribution data for the purpose of providing insights
• Passion for supply chain analysis and improvement
• Strong interpersonal skills and demonstrated success working with and influencing team members to achieve goals
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with ability to communicate effectively with all levels of management and vendors
• Expertise using Excel, planning system including data management