Planner (Supply chain/Logistics)

Post Date

Jul 01, 2024

Location

Mountain View,
California

ZIP/Postal Code

94043
US
Nov 06, 2024 Insight Global

Job Type

Contract

Category

Project Manager

Req #

SJC-715897

Pay Rate

$54 - $68 (hourly estimate)

Job Description

This is an exciting Sr. Planning role where you will ensure material scheduling works effectively to ensure material supply meets production requirements with minimum stock levels, while optimizing cost. This role supports Network Engineering Devices for a growing ISP company. Your responsibilities include identifying, maintaining, and coordinating materials in accordance to forecasted demand and schedules to ensure inventory levels and safety stocks are planned accurately. You'll be the main interface for planning at all Network Engineering project meetings, providing updates and mitigating any supply chain material risks.

Essential job responsibilities:
Responsible for building, maintaining and developing Demand Planning metrics, work in SAP to optimize reporting queries, this involves managing SQL lines and ensuring procurement data is accurate and in line with our business requirements.
Responsible to predict and resolve site specific material planning issues that arise, including over or under delivery and take up immediate actions in the event of material shortages put projects at risk
Resolve material specifications, creating and maintaining company part number within PLM/Agile
Monitor on-hand inventory, customer demand, project schedules, build plans, inventory transactions and material deltas.
Work closely with 3PL in overseeing logistics material management, colocation material delivery requirements, mitigating risk with logistics project managers and 3PL.
Actively support large site Decoms, reviewing, analyzing and auditing all material for effective disposition. Ensuring deployment engineering are following best practices for physical device decom along with proper material packaging per device disposition requirements. Overseeing A-Z on reverse logistics for material management.
Coordinate inventory levels and controls to mitigate material demand impact risk with active safety stock planning, demand forecasts and open orders. Build contingency plans around risk.
Coordination and management of suppliers to organize and ensure scheduled deliveries arrive on time. Or working with to create second sources, change allocations, or develop new partners if required.
Execute flexible material processes to provide shortage risk visibility, correct safety stock levels, aid business efficiency, and drive new process improvements
Lead site materials planning applied across the business, while ensuring Bill of Materials (BOM) integrity, inventory accuracy and inventory movements are handled daily. This role has pay rate of $65-68hr

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Required Skills & Experience

- Data analytics (supply chain- more a plus)
o Data management- key to understand where data comes from and where it needs to go
- 6+yrs in a Planner based role (ability to hit the ground running)
- Understanding of BOM-bill of material lifecycle
- Strong working experience with excel/google sheets-advanced user/advanced formulas
- Manual work with google sheets/Excel (ability to handle large work samples)
- Critical thinking questions (what did you load, why, what's the action plans)
- Strong working knowledge with SQL-high level (combine tables, joins, strong complex queries )
- Experience creating (vlook ups, joins, Match functions, IT functions-SQL and Excel related work)
- Should have past experience leading projects and or teams

Nice to Have Skills & Experience

strong Google Sheets

Large background in Supply chain

strong working knowledge in SAP

Benefit packages for this role will start on the 31st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.