Supply Planning Lead — End-to-End Impact

Icehouseventures; Auckland; On-site; NZD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Snacks and drinks

Health insurance

Parental leave (6 months)

Caregiver leave (4 weeks)

Self-development budget

Wellness leave

ESOP / stock option

Job summary

Halter is seeking a Supply Planning Lead to ensure materials flow, translate demand into material requirements, and partner with suppliers and contract manufacturers to prevent production slowdowns.

This hands-on role offers meaningful problems from week one, with room to grow as Halter scales its supply planning function. You will own planning accuracy, inventory health, and timely delivery while collaborating cross-functionally.

Qualifications

• Solid experience in supply planning or materials planning in a hardware or electronics manufacturing environment. You've owned a supply plan end-to-end and know what it takes to keep it reliable.
• Strong understanding of MRP, purchase order management, inventory control, and how demand translates into supply requirements.
• Trusted by suppliers and contract manufacturers - you've built relationships with the people who actually control outcomes (planners, factory leads, decision-makers), and know how to get things done inside a CM: factory scheduling, internal escalation, and expediting with real leverage.
• Sharp analytical skills. You're fluent in the data that underpins a supply plan, comfortable building your own analysis, and good at spotting the signal in the noise.
• A high degree of ownership and follow-through. You keep track of everything that matters and you close things out.
• Clear, direct communication. You can give a crisp supply position update to a senior stakeholder and a precise expedite request to a supplier.
• A bias for getting ahead of problems. You see them coming, you raise them, and you drive them to resolution.
• Low ego and comfortable with discomfort. You handle hard conversations with honesty, directness, and good judgement about when to escape.

Responsibilities

• Run the supply plan across Halter's product portfolio, translating demand forecasts and production requirements into material and component requirements at the right quantities and timing.
• Place, manage, and track purchase orders across our supplier base, ensuring orders are confirmed, on schedule, and flagged early if they're at risk.
• Build and maintain relationships with the people who actually control outcomes at Halter's contract manufacturers and key suppliers, from planners and factory leads through to commercial decision-makers, positioning yourself as the influence that makes the hard things possible.
• Convert that standing into results when it counts: expediting with real leverage, calling the right person, and clearing delays at the source. This is the core output of the relationships you build.
• Take on the hard supplier problems that need someone experienced to own them through to resolution: the underperforming vendor, the lead time that keeps slipping, the part that's always the reason we're short.
• Map supply risk across the portfolio, including single-source exposures, lead time cliffs and geopolitical vulnerabilities, and drive the mitigations that reduce it.
• Own Halter's material inventory position across raw materials, components and sub-assemblies, holding enough cover to protect production without carrying cash on the shelf.
• Own the reporting that gives Halter an honest view of supply health: coverage, on-time delivery, supplier performance and inventory position.

Skills

Supply planning

MRP

PO management

Inventory control

Demand translation

Ownership & follow-through

Clear communication

Problem anticipation

Job description

Halter is seeking a Supply Planning Lead to ensure materials flow, translate demand into material requirements, and partner with suppliers and contract manufacturers to prevent production slowdowns.

This hands-on role offers meaningful problems from week one, with room to grow as Halter scales its supply planning function. You will own planning accuracy, inventory health, and timely delivery while collaborating cross-functionally.