Sourced Supply Planner
Position ID: req47143
Sector: BA North America
Functional Area: Supply Chain
Location: Charlotte Office
Number of Openings: 1
Employment Type: Permanent
POSITION DESCRIPTION:
Sourced Supply Planner
For us going to work every day has an even greater purpose than putting the latest product or technology on the market. It's about improving the everyday lives of millions. By being sustainable and open to new ideas we can push the boundaries of cooking, cleaning, and wellbeing at home. But to keep doing so, we need more people who want to innovate and re-imagine what life at home can be.
As a Supply Planner, you will partner across Demand Planning, Industrial Operations, Product Line, and Sales to balance demand and supply based on service, cost, and capacity realities. You will develop net requirements for production, purchase, and transportation quantities by location. Process responsibilities include supporting the setting of inventory targets, Rough Cut Capacity Review, Location-Level Planning, and SKU-Level net supply requirements. You will lead cross-functional interactions and review historical data, customer and factory data, market trends and capacity projections to develop the most accurate and up-to-date supply plan. A continuous improvement focus will be utilized to ensure that the planning accuracy is at optimal levels while communicating to appropriate functions as the plans change. You will be exposed to leadership priorities and strategic initiatives that drive the continuous improvement across all functions of the business.
Key Responsibilities:
• Develop mid to long-term location-level supply and purchase plans supporting sales plans and network safety stock requirements
• Execute against selected Supply Plan scenarios that balance constraints across factory capacity, service, and budget
• Lead weekly cross-functional supply meetings and align to supply plan
• Work with suppliers to review capacity and make suggested changes to maximize sales and profitability.
• Monitor demand to plan and make necessary Supply Plan changes to support in near term
• Monitor actual performance against weekly shipments, deployments, and forecast consumption to drive ongoing performance improvements in costs, time, capacity, and asset utilization
• Works cross-functionally to drive inventory and sales decisions on key product lines
• Develop weekly deployments from Hubs to RDCs
• Support root cause analysis for key service issues, as well as share output with appropriate leadership
• Support Monthly ES&OP and Month End inventory budget processes
• Manage phase in and phase out of key transitions with cross-functional operations team
• Inventory Reporting:
Who you are:
• With a number of projects running simultaneously, flexibility and agility are essential
• You build trust, good working relationships and communicate effectively with your colleagues and across functions
• You can make yourself understood and are a good listener
• You get to know your business and can articulate it well, building a case that is sound and people can buy into
• You are comfortable making decisions in ambiguous situations, understanding the benefits, risks, and opportunity costs of each, with the big picture in mind
• You set the pace and the priorities, and then you bring a methodical approach to meeting your goals.
• You can work autonomously but will never be on your own, working proactively to identify the opportunities and implement the plan
Minimum Qualifications:
• Bachelor's Degree required; preferred major area of study in Economics, Supply Chain, or relevant business area
• Preferred 2 years of relevant experience in planning, forecasting process, basic operations, inventory planning, and statistical analysis
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COMPANY DESCRIPTION
Electrolux shapes living for the better by reinventing taste, care and wellbeing experiences, making life more enjoyable and sustainable for millions of people. As a leading global appliance company, we place the consumer at the heart of everything we do. Through our brands, including Electrolux, AEG, Anova, Frigidaire, Westinghouse and Zanussi, we sell more than 60 million household and professional products in more than 150 markets every year. In 2017 Electrolux had sales of SEK 122 billion and employed 56,000 people around the world. For more information go to www.electroluxgroup.com.