Material Planning Manager, Field Purchasing (Remote)

At Trane Technologies™ and through our businesses including  Trane® and Thermo King®, we create innovative climate solutions for buildings, homes, and transportation that challenge what’s possible for a sustainable world. We're a team that dares to look at the world's challenges and see impactful possibilities. We believe in a better future when we uplift others and enable our people to thrive at work and at home. We boldly go.

Trane Technologies is hiring a Retail Materials Planning Manager in La Crosse, WI for Supply Retail Planning team. The Retail Materials Planning Manager will be responsible for forecasting and planning in all the retail locations serviced by the Aftermarket business.  This position partners with the regional leaders to make sure the customer expectations are met with regard to availability. This position is also a key enabler of lean and continuous improvement in the store locations as it relates to inventory management. Key performance indicators for this position are retail inventory turns, predicted availability rate, and inventory quality.

Work arrangement: Remote

Position Responsibilities:

• Ensures optimization of all materials management activities including forecasting, planning, inventory control, returns, and inventory balancing.
• Measure, analyze and use root cause problem solving to track and drive key metrics such as Availability, Inventory Turns and Inventory Quality. Develop and drive countermeasures for underperforming key processes.
• Collaborate and maintain communication with retail Trane stores to maximize effectiveness of inventory planning.
• Provide leadership in selecting, developing and evaluating personnel to ensure the efficient operation of materials functions and Ingersoll Rand’s operating goals and objectives.
• Engages in the typical responsibilities of a manager requiring planning, evaluating, organizing, integrating and delegating.
• Manage materials and inventory in a manner consistent with the requirements of a Lean Six-Sigma environment.
• Responsible for the implementation, support and compliance, within the retail process team, of the Materials and SIOP standard work playbook processes and systems.
• Organize activities & assigning jobs accordingly to the staff requirements.
• Develop and implement a professional development program for materials personnel.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Minimal travel may be required.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree preferred or equivalent experience in lieu of a degree considered.  High school diploma or GED required.
• 5 years experience with sourcing, purchasing, retail operations or equivalent experience
• 2 years of leadership experience preferred 
• Experience in operations, inventory management, MRP and lean/OpEx preferred
• Knowledge of retail network operations preferred
• Computer proficient and good data analytic and communication skills
• Possesses or will commit to complete APICS CPIM certification within 18-24 months
• Strong analytical tool proficiency preferred with specific capability in Alteryx and Tableau software applications
• Advanced Excel knowledge required. Knowledge of Oracle, SalesForce, and P21 a plus

What’s in it for you:
•    Benefits kick in day one!
•    6% 401K match, plus an additional 2% of eligible pay in core contributions
•    3 weeks of vacation per calendar year, plus paid holidays
•    Benefits*:  https://www.tranetechnologies.com/en/index/careers/benefits.html

Salary: $84,000 - $120,000
Disclaimer: This base salary range is based on US national averages. Actual base pay could be a result of seniority, merit, geographic location where the work is performed.

We offer competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits and programs. We are an equal opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, pregnancy, age, marital status, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any legally protected status.

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Salary : $84,000 - $120,000