Senior Supply Chain Planner

Assurant, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a skilled professional to manage and optimize supply chain planning processes. This role involves collaborating with actuarial teams, maintaining accurate data feeds, and ensuring effective communication across departments. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in supply chain management, advanced knowledge of SQL and Excel, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment. Join a forward-thinking company where your expertise will drive operational excellence and enhance decision-making processes. If you are passionate about data and supply chain optimization, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in supply chain planning and management.
• Advanced knowledge of SQL and Excel for data analysis.

Responsibilities

• Maintain accurate device level claims and candidate forecasts.
• Coordinate biweekly updates for financial re-forecast meetings.
• Develop training materials for planning tools across the organization.

Skills

Supply Chain Planning

Microsoft SQL

Excel

Effective Communication

Problem Solving

Deadline Management

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering

Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration

Bachelor's Degree in Finance

Tools

Tableau

Power BI

ACPC

Job description

This position will be responsible for maintaining Insurance Demand and Supply Data feeds, generating device procurement forecasts across all clients (including CPO solutions), plans to re-manufacture for programs that need repair plan coverage, and partner with the actuarial team to maintain accurate device level claims and candidate forecasts. Succeeding in performing this role will facilitate excellent decision making by Demand planning and operations.

What will be my duties and responsibilities in this job?

• This role is responsible for partnering with the actuary team to provide forecasts and improvement feedback. Help communicate supply chain impacts on the forecasting process
• Provide input into advanced exchange device mix in the financial re-forecast process
• Coordinate biweekly updates vs plan for the financial re-forecast meeting
• Quarterly Advanced Exchange mix assumption changes for the RF process
• All US DCC insurance planning data, pipeline updates, and reports (on-hand inventory, open PO’s, WIP)
• Responsible for planning data maintenance, maintaining device migration matrices, device tier and technical specs, and device life cycle management
• Ensure all supported planning tools are working accurately and as expected, technology documentation is complete and accurate, and that appropriate security compliance and business continuity/disaster recovery procedures are developed and maintained
• Ensure that a proper control structure and escalation path is in place and is being followed and monitored for data discrepancies
• Collaborate with other IT departments/disciplines to ensure that changes to environments are instituted at an appropriate level of quality, cost, and architectural consistency
• Perform audits of services, systems, planning tools on a regular basis
• Planning tool development and maintenance
• Develops training materials for team members related to the planning tools deployed across the organization
• Responsible for documenting controls and standards for planning system
• Create new operational guidelines, as needed
• Monitor planning system workflow and processes to maximize productivity
• Recommend procedural changes as needed and implement those changes as directed
• Client device procurement projections for all clients with the requirement, develop and deliver any client related candidate projections/cross dock plans
• CPO Solutions/Trade Desk CPO procurement projections
• Standard Repair Planning candidate forecasts, planning assistance and support
• Order Management system migration setup

What are the requirements needed for this position?

• Bachelors’ degree in Supply chain, Engineering, Business Administration, Business Operations, or Finance
• 10 years supply chain planning experience
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft SQL and SQL Developer
• Advance knowledge in Excel and Microsoft office Suite
• Ability to communicate effectively cross functionally
• Must perform duties under deadline pressure in a fast-paced, high volume, multi-office work environment
• In addition, the ability to prioritize, plan, deal with difficult situations and effectively communicate orally and in written form is essential to the success of this position
• Position requires the ability to work off hours at time to work through system issues and provide support and problem escalation as required

What other skills/experience would be helpful to have?

• CPIM or other related Supply Chain Certifications
• Knowledge and experience in Tableau, Power Bi and/or other Business analytics tools
• Knowledge and experience with forecasting/Planning tools like ACPC