Strategic Replenishment Planner

Weber Blackstone; Palatine (IL); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Weber Blackstone in Palatine, IL is seeking a Replenishment Planner to develop material delivery plans that keep production running and optimize inventory turns.

You will collaborate with Manufacturing, Sourcing, Quality, Inventory Control, Engineering, and Finance, monitor supplier performance, and translate forecasts into actionable procurement plans to ensure uninterrupted supply and improved fill rates.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Supply Chain Management or Business.
• 5 years of supply chain experience.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Knowledge of MRP/ERP systems. Experience with SAP a plus.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office software.

Responsibilities

• Develop and optimize a material delivery plan that balances operations and inventory turns while maximizing customer order fill rate.
• Manage supplier delivery performance to minimize variability between expected and actual delivery.
• Ensure raw material delivery and inventory plans support production needs with no interruption.
• Establish and implement analysis of sales forecast against actual sales to identify and address variability that will influence future inventory and fill rate performance.
• Monitor customer order fill rate performance and mitigate key drivers impacting performance.
• Manage supplier performance to deliver industry leading product lead times and inventory turns.
• Enhance supplier development by communicating performance standards, developing improvement initiatives and actively soliciting and providing formal feedback.
• Collaborate with supporting functions to ensure plans are realized: Manufacturing, Sourcing, Quality, Inventory Control, Engineering, and Finance.
• Support new product planning process to ensure material planning needs are incorporated and executed.
• Translate future production and purchasing plans into inventory investment projections that meet our inventory turns goals and ensure plans are executed.
• Identify and implement efficiency improvements within our supply chain, both physical and transactional.
• Assume team leadership role on one or more of the team’s key performance indicators, coordinating review, assessment, feedback and action plans.

Skills

Drive for Results

Adaptability

Change Management

Ethics

Initiative

Communication

Professionalism

Teamwork & Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management or Business

5 years of supply chain experience

APICS CPIM certification preferred

Tools

SAP

Microsoft Office

Job description

Weber Blackstone in Palatine, IL is seeking a Replenishment Planner to develop material delivery plans that keep production running and optimize inventory turns.

You will collaborate with Manufacturing, Sourcing, Quality, Inventory Control, Engineering, and Finance, monitor supplier performance, and translate forecasts into actionable procurement plans to ensure uninterrupted supply and improved fill rates.