Supply Chain Planner

ZipRecruiter; Danbury (CT); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm is seeking a Supply Chain Planner in Danbury, CT. This role focuses on material planning for North American manufacturing facilities, requiring strong analytical skills, extensive experience in supply chain and SAP, and a proactive decision-making mindset. Join a dynamic environment committed to operational excellence.

Qualifications

• 7-10+ years of experience in demand/supply planning or inventory management.
• APICS (CPIM/CSCP) certification preferred.
• Experience in a manufacturing environment required.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain an 18-month rolling plan for manufacturing facilities.
• Analyze inventory for slow-moving and dead stock, initiating necessary actions.
• Drive improvements in planning accuracy and service levels.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Communication

Problem-solving

Decision making

Attention to detail

Education

BS Degree or equivalent experience

Tools

SAP

Microsoft Business Software

Job description

Job DescriptionJob Description

Aquinas Consulting is seeking to fill a Supply Chain Planner job for our client located in Danbury, CT. In this role, you will be responsible for the planning of all materials required by our client’s North American manufacturing facilities. This individual bears full responsibility for agreed upon goals and objectives set with the Team Leader, Planning Manager, Vice President of Production, and the Head of Global Planning & Master Data Management.

Supply Chain Planner Job Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain 18 month rolling plan for America’s manufacturing facilities based on statistics and enriched with all relevant input from Sales, Product Management and Supply Chain.
• Partner with Product Management and Sales to understand changes in demand, collaborate on demand opportunities, determine demand forecast and manage supply plan with agility to support.
• Participates in the creation and maintenance of planning for all materials used in all plants.
• Identify potential supply risks, alert any supply-demand misalignments, coordinate with the appropriate stakeholders to propose solutions and drive closure.
• Heavy product life cycle management skills, product specific inventory strategies, develop robust plans to enable new product launch and product phase-out ensuring continuity of supply minimizing excess stock and stock out.
• Use data-guided analytical rigor to identify trends, patterns, issues that lead to sub-optimal output, recommend process improvement opportunities and action plans.
• Drive sustainable improvement in planning accuracy, service level and related KPI’s through root-cause analysis by leveraging planning tool, cross-functional collaboration and change management skills.
• Develop working relationships with planners globally and build a “virtual” team through regular work sessions and exchanges.
• Knowledgeable in the overall functionality of the PP module so that manufacturing operations can proceed without interruption.
• Knowledgeable in evaluating the impact of PP transactions throughout other modules within R/3 system.
• Analyze inventory for slow moving and dead stock, initiating scrap, rework or obsolescence with departments including Quality, Production and Product Management

Qualifications:

• 7-10+ of experience in demand/supply planning, material planning, or inventory management in a manufacturing environment
• BS Degree or equivalent experience
• Extensive SAP experience
• Proficient in Microsoft Business Software
• Strong analytical and communication skills required
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills, a continuous improvement mindset
• Highly proactive. Decision making ability
• High attention to detail and follow through
• APICS (CPIM/CSCP) certification

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Aquinas Consulting is a woman and minority owned company headquartered in Milford, CT that provides Engineering, Information Technology (IT), and Manufacturing staffing solutions throughout the US. We take pride in 20 years of service to our clients, our hiring managers, our consultants, and our local community. Aquinas is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer and committed to considering all qualified applications without regard to , genetic information, , , , , , veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. www.aquinasconsulting.com