Freelance Assistant Sourcing Operations Planner

We are looking for a Freelance Assistant Sourcing/Operations Planner for a top lifestyle brand and beauty company in New York, NY! This role manages supply chain planning, costing, financial communication, on-time delivery, and inventory for home fragrance. This role is a trusted advisor for both internal cross-functional partners and external vendors. This person has exceptional attention to detail, strong communication and influencing skills, and is motivated working in a fast-paced environment.

• Pay $24/hr- Onsite
• 6 month contract
  
  
  

Responsibilities:


Vendor Management

• Responsible for ordering and management of Component Inventory and Finished Goods
• Manage S&OP between vendor and beauty business
• Ensure vendor OT&C accountability is at 95% or higher Ensure finished product is delivered to warehouses in a timely manner; work in conjunction with vendors to prioritize production
• Expedite shipments / production to meet speed initiatives
• Short-term and long-term capacity planning
• Issue component and finished good purchase orders and negotiate with vendors to secure production
• Communicate new launch forecasts and medium-range receipt plans
• Partner with vendors to identify future supply chain requirements
  
  
  

Brand Management

• Build relationship as a trusted advisor
• Manage speed-to-market initiatives
• Responsible for communicating/updating changes to open orders: status reporting to cross-functional partners (OT&C accountability at 95%)
• Review and communicate feasibility and timing for all buy requests
• Informs cross-functional partners of excess inventory in Semi Annual Sales and Clearance buys; assist with component run-outs to reduce inventory liability
• Partners with cross-functional partners to develop new launch and medium range receipt plan
• Understand and support business and process changes by utilizing a speed and agility mindset
• Identify opportunities to reduce lead times
• Identify opportunities to gain agility within the supply chain
  
  
  

Inventory Management

• Responsible for the data integrity of Material Requirement Planning (MRP) that will enable a consistent planning horizon
• Execute buys using SAP MRP
• Manage to component inventory targets
• Manage detailed Bill of Material (BOM) accuracy (waste factors and usage); work closely with Inventory Control during Book to Book to identify and resolve BOM issues
• Assist Inventory Control with Physical Inventory and provide support to resolve issues
• Provide justification for excess inventory in quarterly review of Excess and Obsolete reconciliation
• Conduct End of Season inventory management planning; execute ad hoc cycle counts and run outs to reduce liability
• Analyze data, reviewing reports, and resolve issues to maintain a clean Book of Business with focus on inventory turns
  
  
  

Large-Scale Change Management Projects

• Support of the change management Allergen update project (Regulatory Compliance Requirement – not optional)
• Maintaining weekly tracker to report Sourcing task progress with relation to the cross functional teams
• Conducting mass downloads of specification information for over 150 Finished Goods and 200 components
• Copying and verifying costs on new Allergen Compliant Finished Goods and components to replace the existing
• Approving workflows in PLM, preparing Winshuttles for PIR creation in SAP, and Rolling costs for all new Finished Goods
  
  
  

Costing Support

• Cost Roll reporting/execution
• Rebate Calculation and Collection
• Assist as needed with impact analysis
• Execution of cost increase requests, surcharges and PPV review/approval
  
  
  

Commercial support

• PO updates
• Send FG and component RFQs
• Update PCOG trackers
• Process tooling forms
  
  
  

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in related field
• APICS, CPIM a plus
• 3-5 years of sourcing, production planning, supply chain, or inventory management experience
• Experience in manufacturing and/or consumer goods/retail preferred
• Solid business acumen and ability to make recommendations and business decisions in partnership with leader
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with demonstrated initiative and ability to achieve results
• Ability to build and foster strong trusted advisor relationships with internal and external partners System and computer proficiency (SAP, MSOffice)
  
  
  

If you meet the required qualifications and are interested in this role, please apply today.

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