Planner Buyer

Veritiv México; Ciudad Juárez; On-site; MXN 300,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Veritiv México is seeking a role focused on inventory optimization and collaboration with Sales and field teams to align inventory with financial and service goals. The position involves data research, budgeting oversight, and strategic participation in planning sessions.

Responsibilities include monitoring trends, diagnosing deviations, and providing insightful reporting to senior stakeholders while coordinating with Buyers, Inventory coordinators, and Marketing teams.

Qualifications

• Research using primary data sources and provide market and customer intelligence.
• Track budgets and report variances to senior colleagues.
• Interpret data to identify answers and issues with processes.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Sales Leadership to maximize inventory performance for financial and service objectives.
• Engage with Sales Management to monitor trends and diagnose deviations in key metrics; take corrective action with inventory and field teams.
• Work with inventory management and local field resources to implement corrective actions.
• Provide reporting on objectives and related metrics.
• Coordinate rollout and inventory placement for marketing initiatives with RSL, IM, and Category Management.
• Collaborate with Sales Managers and Reps on customer accounts to establish basic S&OP activities.

Job description

Collaborate with Sales Leadership team to maximize inventory performance to achieve both financial and service objectives. Effectively engage with Sales Management to monitor trends, diagnose root cause of deviations in key metrics and work with inventory management and local field resources to take corrective action. Work with all relevant parties to ensure the appropriate level of customer focus.

• Conduct research using primary data sources and select information needed for the analysis of key themes and trends and provide market and Customer intelligence.
• Engage with sales management to drive alignment between local objectives and inventory strategy.
• Actively participate in strategy sessions.
• Investigate questions relating to existing programs, processes and procedures.
• Interpret data and identify possible answers.
• Involves navigating a wide variety of processes, procedures and precedents.
• Provide reporting against objectives and related metrics.
• Track budgets and report variances to more senior colleagues.
• Roles at this level are typically supervisors or junior professionals who are concerned with delivering results within established systems and with readily available support.
• Process efficiency; apply
• Work with Buyers and Inventory coordinators to adjust inventory to achieve objectives (fill rate, DIOH, DnE, etc.). Coordinate rollout and inventory placement on marketing initiatives in collaboration with RSL, IM team, and Category Management.
• Collaborate with Sales Managers and Reps on selected Customer accounts to establish basic S&OP (sales and operations planning) activities.

Mexico

Veritiv is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.

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