Senior Supply & Demand Planner — Spares & NPI

Oracle; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 91,000 - 187,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) plan with company match

Paid time off

Job summary

Oracle in Houston, TX seeks a Senior Supply Demand Planner to own end-to-end supply and demand planning for service spares, FRUs, and NPIs. You will partner across Service, Engineering, Procurement, Manufacturing, and Finance to optimize inventory and support customer commitments.

You will develop planning dashboards, track service levels, perform root-cause analyses, and drive cross-functional reviews to mitigate risks and drive improvements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in supply planning, demand planning, inventory management, NPI, or service-parts planning.
• Experience supporting new product introductions.
• Strong knowledge of forecasting, inventory optimization, and supply planning.
• Experience with spares, FRUs, repairables, or intermittent-demand inventory preferred.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Advanced Excel and planning-system experience.
• Strong written, verbal, and executive communication skills.
• Proven ability to influence and drive cross-functional decisions.

Responsibilities

• Develop dashboards and planning models for supply, demand, and inventory.
• Track service levels, shortages, forecast performance, and inventory health.
• Perform root-cause analysis on planning and service gaps.
• Compare NPI assumptions to actual field performance.
• Develop supply-demand scenarios for business and financial planning.
• Drive improvements in planning tools, data, and processes.
• Serve as the planning subject matter expert for spares, FRUs, and NPI.
• Lead supply-demand and launch-readiness reviews.
• Communicate risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations to leadership.
• Influence cross-functional decisions without direct authority.
• Drive resolution of complex supply-chain issues.
• Mentor planners and establish planning best practices.
• Own spares and FRU planning for new product introductions.
• Develop initial demand forecasts using installed base, reliability, and failure-rate assumptions.
• Define launch stocking strategies and inventory requirements.
• Ensure parts readiness ahead of product launch and customer deployment.
• Identify critical FRUs, long-lead items, and supply risks.
• Build scenarios for demand, failure rates, lead times, and service levels.
• Track NPI readiness and drive mitigation for gaps.
• Transition planning from assumptions to actual field demand.
• Lead post-launch reviews and incorporate lessons learned.
• Own demand forecasts for assigned spares and FRU portfolios.
• Incorporate installed base, consumption, reliability, returns, and lifecycle data.
• Forecast new products with limited or no historical demand.
• Identify demand trends, forecast bias, and abnormal usage.
• Adjust plans based on field performance and reliability changes.
• Develop scenarios to support planning decisions.
• Develop supply plans to meet service and inventory objectives.
• Set and optimize safety stock and inventory targets.
• Identify shortages, excess, and supply-demand imbalances.
• Lead mitigation for constrained or high-risk materials.
• Optimize inventory across global service locations.
• Partner with suppliers and Procurement on capacity and lead-time risks.
• Reduce excess and obsolete inventory while protecting service levels.
• Manage planning across NPI, ramp, sustaining, transition, and end-of-life.
• Monitor early-life demand and adjust inventory strategies.
• Manage FRU substitutions, supersessions, and engineering changes.
• Minimize stranded inventory during product transitions.
• Develop end-of-life and last-time-buy plans.
• Align inventory with warranty and service obligations.
• Incorporate repair yields, turnaround times, and capacity into supply plans.
• Balance new-buy, repair, refurbishment, and recovered inventory.
• Monitor return and RMA trends for emerging risks.
• Identify repair-loop constraints and improvement opportunities.
• Support repair-versus-buy decisions.

Skills

Experience in supply planning

Demand planning

Inventory management

New product introductions (NPI)

Analytical & problem-solving

Excel and planning systems

Written and verbal communication

Cross-functional influence

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Engineering, Business, Finance, Analytics, or related field

Job description

Oracle in Houston, TX seeks a Senior Supply Demand Planner to own end-to-end supply and demand planning for service spares, FRUs, and NPIs. You will partner across Service, Engineering, Procurement, Manufacturing, and Finance to optimize inventory and support customer commitments.

You will develop planning dashboards, track service levels, perform root-cause analyses, and drive cross-functional reviews to mitigate risks and drive improvements.