Sr Supply Chain Planner

About the job

Review and revise production and fulfillment plans as required by changes in the sales forecast or manufacturing schedules. Act as a liaison between Supply Planning, Demand Planning, Manufacturing, Quality, Sales, & Marketing and functions, communicating and troubleshooting issues, problems, and concerns. Review the sales forecast, analyze production plans and inventory levels, confirm long lead time items to provide production guidance to the manufacturing sites. Generate receipts plan for 3PL partners to support warehouse capacity and resource planning. Assist in the expediting finished goods, when necessary, to support customer order fulfillment. Recommend and implement production and transportation actions when products are in out-of-stock or allocation situations. Aid management/departments on matters related to production or fulfillment planning and forecasting. Ability to be flexible and communicate proactively with global partners. Ability to multitask and maintain composure in stressful situations. Bachelor's degree Supply Chain, Business, or similar field preferred APICS certification and/or affiliation a plus 5 years of experience in supply planning / scheduling / fulfillment (preferably for a manufacturer of consumer products) Prior experience working with MRP / ERP systems (SAP strongly preferred) Functional understanding of inventory movements between plants (delivery docs, post goods issue, post goods receipts) 3 years' experience in Excel (performing functions such as pivot tables, v look-up, etc.) Experience leading process improvement projects within your team, or across supply chain teams Experience influencing direct team members and matrixed team members for end-to-end supply chain improvement