What are the responsibilities and job description for the Supply Chain Planning Specialist position at Jobleads-US?
At Jobleads-US, we are seeking a highly skilled Supply Chain Planning Specialist to join our team.
About the Role
This role is responsible for enhancing the supply chain planning processes of Building Products (BP) to understand, plan, and define demand and supply, ensuring continuous supply aligned with demand, and balancing service, cash, cost, and capacity.
Key Responsibilities
- Create and maintain product portfolio/family level and aggregated overall business demand plans (volume) for the next rolling 18 months.
- Build forecast assumptions, including product transition, trends, and large projects.
- Lead monthly SIOP meetings to understand macro/micro drivers that could impact the demand plan in the short or long term.
- Handle exceptions (delivery blocks, customer order scheduling, etc.) and product allocation in collaboration with product management, procurement, and order management along with proactive communication across the organization.
- Ensure product availability, delivery capability, and reliability (customer/supply) for best-in-class service to customers through monitoring and adjusting to demand.
- Generate supply plans for International internal mfg. sites and suppliers to assure optimized replenishment of BP finished goods. Provide guidelines for production planning/material sourcing to internal plants and external suppliers, domestic and international.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain/Logistics, or related discipline.
- 2 years' experience in demand/material/finance or business planning.
- Experience with Advanced Planning/Decision Support Systems such as: SAP APO, SAP IBP, Oracle Demantra, JDA Demand, JDA Enterprise Planning, Kinaxis, etc.
- Expert Analytical Skills.
- Expert Excel skills (formulas, pivots, charts, etc.).
