Strategic Supply Planner: Forecasting & PO Optimization

REI; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 93,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee discount

Health benefits

Retirement savings plan

Job summary

REI is seeking a Supply Planning Analyst to help improve supply plan accuracy and flexibility by managing forecasting and operational data before purchasing cycles. You will oversee purchase orders, production issues, and perform data analysis to support Private Brands’ supply planning across stores and direct sales.

The role requires 4+ years of related experience, strong analytical skills, and proficiency with Excel/VBA, Enovia, SAP, and Sigma.

Qualifications

• 4+ years related experience required.
• Understanding of product development sampling and manufacturing processes.
• Experience with product inventory analysis, acquisition, allocation and management for multiple stores and direct sales.
• Strong analysis skills: ability to recognize trends and execute adjustments with internal and external partners, capitalizing on both strategic and tactical opportunities.
• Uses business knowledge, innovative thinking, and sound judgment in the solution of problems or the pursuit of business opportunities.
• Understanding and effective execution of merchandising math principles: initial mark-up, gross margin, markdowns, shrink, damages, inventory turnover, open-to-buy preferred.

Responsibilities

• Utilize a collaborative approach with Product and Planning teams to obtain and ensure current, accurate information.
• Summarize and present seasonal analysis to cross-functional teams and external partners.
• Contributes to the strategic direction and priorities of the Supply Operations team.
• Demonstrates the ability to think critically and challenge upward strategically.
• Ensure accuracy for all product and vendor data.
• Ensure on-time forecast completion; review and analyze forecast information, highlighting discrepancies and trends.
• Resolve purchase order and production minimums issues.
• Manage purchase order changes.
• Monitor and communicates delivery issues to internal teams and provide resolution options.
• Track, manage and resolve material/component liabilities to reduce overall impact to business.
• Utilize multiple data sources, or create new data sources, to provide insights into performance and the impacts to REI’s on hand inventory and product planning.
• Monitor and analyze operational statistics, reports, trends, variances and issues.

Skills

Strong analytical skills

Cross-functional collaboration

MS Excel (incl. VBA)

Proficiency in MS Office

Data interpretation

Tools

Enovia

SAP

Sigma

Job description

REI is seeking a Supply Planning Analyst to help improve supply plan accuracy and flexibility by managing forecasting and operational data before purchasing cycles. You will oversee purchase orders, production issues, and perform data analysis to support Private Brands’ supply planning across stores and direct sales.

The role requires 4+ years of related experience, strong analytical skills, and proficiency with Excel/VBA, Enovia, SAP, and Sigma.