Supply Planner

Ninjakitchen; Needham (MA); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company that is redefining the consumer product landscape. As a Supply Planner, you will play a crucial role in executing global inventory strategies, ensuring optimal service levels, and maintaining healthy inventory levels. This position offers a dynamic environment where collaboration across various departments is key to success. You will have the opportunity to identify process improvements and lead initiatives that enhance efficiency. With a culture that values diversity and innovation, you will be part of a community that empowers personal and professional growth while making a significant impact in the market.

Benefits

Competitive Health Insurance

Retirement Plans

Paid Time Off

Employee Stock Purchase Options

Wellness Programs

Product Discounts

Qualifications

• 1+ year of Supply Chain Planning experience required.
• Broad knowledge of supply chain process fundamentals and metrics.

Responsibilities

• Create and update global inventory plans balancing supply chain constraints.
• Collaborate with teams to ensure optimal outcomes for product categories.

Skills

Supply Chain Planning

Analytical Skills

Collaboration

Microsoft Excel

Communication Skills

Process Improvement

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain

Supply Chain Certifications (CPIM, CSCP)

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Job description

About Us

SharkNinja is a global product design and technology company, with a diversified portfolio of 5-star rated lifestyle solutions that positively impact people’s lives in homes around the world. Powered by two trusted, global brands, Shark and Ninja, the company has a proven track record of bringing disruptive innovation to market, and developing one consumer product after another has allowed SharkNinja to enter multiple product categories, driving significant growth and market share gains. Headquartered in Needham, Massachusetts with more than 3,300+ associates, the company’s products are sold at key retailers, online and offline, and through distributors around the world.

TheSupplyPlanner executesglobal inventory planning and fulfillment strategies for a specific category(s) of products. The objective of this role will be to maximize service levels in all markets across the globe, maintain a healthy level of inventory, pivot in response to fluctuations in orders and forecasts, and represent the supply chain as a steward of inventory and cost.

Here are some of the EXCITING things you’ll get to do:

• Creation and updating of global inventory plans across specific categories, balancing supply chain constraints, demand priorities, overall inventory levels, and associating service impacts.
• Manage priorities throughout the day and ensure the quality and timely completion of work and assigned tasks.
• Collaboration with demand planning, production, logistics, sales, marketing and product development on a daily basis, acting as an orchestrator to ensure the best outcomes for SharkNinja.
• Purchase Order Management in alignment with the inventory plan, while monitoring and adjusting inventory flow for changes in demand, supply chain constraints, or alternative supply options such as reworks, substitutions, or transfers.
• Participate in portfolio reviews as a steward of the supply chain, challenging SKU proliferation, and ensuring lifecycles transition and launch dates, as well as ABC classifications are updated. Incorporate new parameters and dates within the global inventory plans.
• Participate in demand and forecast reviews, ensuring assumptions are captured, demand priorities are clear, and forecasts are clearly understood and aligned. Incorporate forecasts into global inventory plans.
• Participate in supply reviews, ensuring global constraints and opportunities are identified, and feasible options are developed to overcome any constraints, and/or capture opportunities are ready to decide and action.
• Collaborate with the manager on the resolution of issues, aligning on a course of action and orchestrating across team of supply planners.
• Monitor service levels and inventory levels, particularly in markets with excess or obsolete inventory, and collaborate with sales, strategic sales, demand planning, marketing and market leadership to develop corrective actions.
• Identify opportunities for process improvement, develop creative solutions, and lead improvement initiatives with key cross functional team members with a focus on improving KPI's and utilization of bandwidth.

ATTRIBUTES & SKILLS:

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain concentration highly desired or relevant experience.
• Minimum 1 year of Supply Chain Planning experience.
• Supply Chain Certifications (CPIM, CSCP, etc) considered a definite asset.
• Broad knowledge on supply chain process fundamentals and metrics, including demand planning, inventory planning, manufacturing, logistics and distribution.
• Comfortable working in a multi-cultural, multi-lingual environment, and excited to work collaboratively with colleagues across the globe.
• Strong and curious analytical skillset, identifying patterns, exceptions to patterns, and identifying drivers of these outliers.
• Takes pride in quality of work, and comfortable operating in the detail (bottoms up), while ensuring mid-down and top-down assumption consistency.
• Flexible to manage time across pivots in task prioritization of one's self and the team and communicate for impact the necessary support to navigate through issues and challenges.
• Desire and capacity to learn new systems, processes, and guide others on the learning journey.
• Expertise in handling datasets within Microsoft Excel, and comfortable learning new planning and IT systems.
• Strong communication skills, capable of communicating for impact the key messages for an audience and associating asks through both oral and written mediums.
• Self-starter who thrives in ambiguity, demonstrates curiosity, and approaches work through a growth mindset.
• Bias for action and excited to use voice in meetings to cut through ambiguity and seek clarity.
• Fluency in English required.

Our Culture

At SharkNinja, we don’t just raise the bar—we push past it every single day. Our Outrageously Extraordinary mindset drives us to tackle the impossible, push boundaries, and deliver results that others only dream of. If you thrive on breaking out of your swim lane, you’ll be right at home.

What We Offer

We offer competitive health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, employee stock purchase options, wellness programs, SharkNinja product discounts, and more.We empower your personal and professional growth with high impact Learning Programs featuring bold voices redefining what’s possible. When you join, you’re not just part of a company—you’re part of an outrageously extraordinary community. Together, we won’t just launch products—we’ll disrupt entire markets.

At SharkNinja, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are vital to our global success. Valuing each unique voice and blending all of our diverse skills strengthens SharkNinja’s innovation every day. We support ALL associates in bringing their authentic selves to work, making an impact, and having the opportunity for career acceleration. With help from our leadership, associates, and our community, we aim to have equity be a key component of the SharkNinja DNA.

Learn more about us:
Life At SharkNinja
Outrageously Extraordinary

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