Planner (Supply chain/Logistics)

Insight Global; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 94,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global in Mountain View is seeking a Senior Planning professional to ensure material scheduling aligns with production forecasts, optimizing stock levels and cost. You will coordinate demand, safety stocks, and inventory, while interfacing with Network Engineering project meetings to mitigate supply risks.

The role requires heavy SAP usage, BOM control, SAP reporting, and strong SQL/Excel skills. You will lead material plans across the site and collaborate with 3PL partners to ensure

Qualifications

• Data analytics in supply chain; data management to track data origin and destination.
• 6+ years in a Planner-based role; ability to hit the ground running.
• Understanding of BOM – bill of materials lifecycle.
• Excel/Google Sheets advanced user with formulas.
• SQL skills including joins and lookups.
• Experience leading projects or teams.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain Demand Planning metrics and optimize SAP reporting.
• Forecast demand, manage safety stocks and on-hand inventory.
• Coordinate with 3PL and logistics for on-time deliveries.
• Oversee material management across site decom and reverse logistics.
• Lead materials planning with BOM integrity and inventory accuracy.
• Interface at Network Engineering project meetings and mitigate risks.

Skills

Data analytics

Data management

Planner experience

BOM lifecycle

Excel/Google Sheets

SQL queries

VLOOKUP/Join functions

Team leadership

Google Sheets

Tools

SAP

PLM

Agile

Job description

Job Description

This is an exciting Sr. Planning role where you will ensure material scheduling works effectively to ensure material supply meets production requirements with minimum stock levels, while optimizing cost. This role supports Network Engineering Devices for a growing ISP company. Your responsibilities include identifying, maintaining, and coordinating materials in accordance to forecasted demand and schedules to ensure inventory levels and safety stocks are planned accurately. You'll be the main interface for planning at all Network Engineering project meetings, providing updates and mitigating any supply chain material risks.

Essential job responsibilities:Responsible for building, maintaining and developing Demand Planning metrics, work in SAP to optimize reporting queries, this involves managing SQL lines and ensuring procurement data is accurate and in line with our business requirements.Responsible to predict and resolve site specific material planning issues that arise, including over or under delivery and take up immediate actions in the event of material shortages put projects at riskResolve material specifications, creating and maintaining company part number within PLM/AgileMonitor on-hand inventory, customer demand, project schedules, build plans, inventory transactions and material deltas.Work closely with 3PL in overseeing logistics material management, colocation material delivery requirements, mitigating risk with logistics project managers and 3PL.Actively support large site Decoms, reviewing, analyzing and auditing all material for effective disposition. Ensuring deployment engineering are following best practices for physical device decom along with proper material packaging per device disposition requirements. Overseeing A-Z on reverse logistics for material management.Coordinate inventory levels and controls to mitigate material demand impact risk with active safety stock planning, demand forecasts and open orders. Build contingency plans around risk.Coordination and management of suppliers to organize and ensure scheduled deliveries arrive on time. Or working with to create second sources, change allocations, or develop new partners if required.Execute flexible material processes to provide shortage risk visibility, correct safety stock levels, aid business efficiency, and drive new process improvementsLead site materials planning applied across the business, while ensuring Bill of Materials (BOM) integrity, inventory accuracy and inventory movements are handled daily. This role has pay rate of $65-68hr

Skills and Requirements

• Data analytics (supply chain- more a plus)o Data management- key to understand where data comes from and where it needs to go
• 6+yrs in a Planner based role (ability to hit the ground running)
• Understanding of BOM-bill of material lifecycle
• Strong working experience with excel/google sheets-advanced user/advanced formulas
• Manual work with google sheets/Excel (ability to handle large work samples)
• Critical thinking questions (what did you load, why, what's the action plans)
• Strong working knowledge with SQL-high level (combine tables, joins, strong complex queries )
• Experience creating (vlook ups, joins, Match functions, IT functions-SQL and Excel related work)
• Should have past experience leading projects and or teamsstrong Google Sheets

Large background in Supply chain

strong working knowledge in SAP

We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to [e-mail].