Our purpose is to positively impact people’s lives every day in every home around the world! We work very hard to provide our consumers with high-quality, exciting 5-star products that make life easier. We thrive on passion and innovation and are looking for great people, with great ideas, who want to build the next big thing and develop while they do.

OVERVIEW:

On site: Hybrid 3 days a week

The Supply Planner executes global 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:

Bachelors 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 ones 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.

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.

YOUR ROLE in leading our SUCCESS DRIVERS & representing our UNIQUE MINDSET

Lead us to be “RARELY SATISFIED”
Make things better each day; “PROGRESS OVER PERFECTION”
Use your knowledge of our consumer, understand that “DETAILS MAKE THE DIFFERENCE”
Deliver something great; “WINNING IS A TEAM SPORT”
Be clear and honest, “COMMUNICATING FOR IMPACT”

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