Manager Supply Chain Planning

Rogers Corporation; Narragansett (RI); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Rogers Corporation is seeking a Manager of Supply Chain Planning in Narragansett, RI to oversee and improve our supply chain planning activities. The role focuses on implementing supply chain strategies, optimizing inventory levels and ensuring timely product availability to meet customer demand.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to analyze demand patterns, forecast sales, and develop scenarios to adjust plans, while driving improvements in scheduling and data accuracy across the

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain management, operations management, or related field.
• 8+ years of experience in supply chain management or related.
• Experience with inventory management, demand forecasting methodologies, supply chain planning software and ERP systems.
• Travel: Up to 10%.

Responsibilities

• Execute IBP by managing cross-functional efforts that integrate demand, supply and distribution planning.
• Drive new supply chain planning strategies to optimize inventory and meet demand.
• Collaborate with commercial, marketing and demand teams to forecast and plan.
• Coordinate with procurement, production and logistics to improve operational efficiency.
• Monitor on-time delivery, lead times, inventories and production progress; investigate deviations.
• Implement best practices for inventory management, safety stock, reorder points and EOQ.
• Promote use of planning software and improve scheduling processes.
• Maintain data quality for stocking policies and lead times.
• Lead improvement projects and special initiatives.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Supply chain management

Demand forecasting

Inventory management

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in supply chain management

Tools

ERP systems

Job description

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Position Title: Manager Supply Chain Planning

Location: Narragansett, RI, US, 02882

Job Category: Supply Chain

Shift: Shift 1

Full Time / Part Time: Full-Time

Job Level: Manager

Approximate Travel: 10%

Job Description

Summary:

The role is responsible for overseeing and managing an organization's supply chain planning activities. This role involves implementing the supply chain strategies, optimizing inventory levels, and ensuring timely product availability to meet customer demand. Collaborates with cross-functional teams, analyzes data, and identifies opportunities to enhance operational efficiency and drive cost savings while ensuring timely delivery of product to customers.

Essential Functions:

• Execute the integrated business planning process (IBP) by managing cross-functional efforts that fully integrates demand, supply and distribution planning processes.
• Drive the implementation of new supply chain planning strategies to optimize inventory levels, ensure product availability, and meet customer demand.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams, including commercial, marketing and demand to analyze demand patterns, sales forecasts, and market trends to anticipate future demand and develop scenarios to adjust to supply chain plans accordingly.
• Work with procurement, production, and logistics, to find ways to enhance operational efficiency.
• Establishes and supervises supply planning and distribution activities by monitoring on time delivery, lead times, material inventories, tracking production progress, and reviewing factors that affect schedules. Explain deviation from target with root cause investigations.
• Implement methods and best practices related to the systems and processes that support managing inventory and reducing excess and obsolete expenses. This includes control management measures, such as aged inventory, safety stocks, reorder points, and economic order quantities, to optimize inventory levels and minimize stockouts for all finished goods, work in progress and raw materials.
• Drive usage of supply chain planning software and identify improvements to the planning and scheduling processes.
• Maintain a high quality of data for planning parameters to execute the order fulfillment strategy – stocking policies, lead time, safety stocks, etc.
• Drive improvement projects and special initiatives required of the planning organization.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, operations management, or related field. May consider equivalent work experience in lieu of degree.
• 8+ years of experience in supply chain management or related.
• Experience with inventory management, demand forecasting methodologies, supply chain planning software and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems.
• Travel: Up to 10%.

Additional Qualification Details: No additional requirement needed

Who We Are and What We Are All About:

Rogers Corporation makes tomorrow's innovations possible. Help build a cleaner, safer and more connected world with a career at Rogers, where we make tomorrow’s innovations possible. We rely on a talented workforce to develop our cutting edge, market-leading material technologies. Our global team develops innovative specialty materials and components that enable technology in a wide array of high-growth markets. Our customers expect high performance and reliability, so we are always looking for people who can improve processes, get results and represent a best-in-class organization. People are at the heart of all our operations, and we encourage our employees to act with integrity, creativity and excellence to help drive results worldwide.

Why Work for Rogers:

It is our commitment to get “Results, but Results the Right Way.” Rogers offers an exceptional work environment and a value-driven culture modeled by leadership. Employees have access to developmental opportunities as well as top-notch benefits and incentive programs. Come join a winning team!

Rogers Corporation provides equal employment opportunities to minorities, females, veterans and disabled individuals, as well as other protected groups.

About Rogers Corporation:

At Rogers Corporation (NYSE:ROG), we're changing how the world uses technology. We are a global leader in materials technology and manufacturing, producing engineered materials to power, protect and connect our world. With nearly 200 years of materials science and engineering experience, Rogers delivers high-performance solutions that enable global Advanced Electronics Solutions and Elastomeric Material Solutions, as well as other technologies where reliability is critical. Rogers enables the world’s leading innovators to achieve greater performance, speed to market and reliability through our renowned technical solutions support, problem-solving and application engineering capabilities. Rogers delivers market-leading solutions for energy-efficient motor drives, vehicle electrification and alternative energy, sealing, vibration management, and impact protection in mobile devices, transportation interiors, industrial equipment and performance apparel, wireless infrastructure and automotive safety and radar systems. Headquartered in Chandler, Arizona (USA), Rogers operates manufacturing facilities in the United States, China, Germany, Belgium, Hungary and South Korea, with joint ventures and sales offices worldwide. For more information, visit www.rogerscorp.com .