Buyer/Demand Planner - Supply Chain

Key objectives to optimize inventory and execute against growth plans and strategic initiatives, drive cross- functional alignment on challenges, opportunities, and execution roadmaps, and evolve and build new processes to elevate our overall planning model.

Key Responsibilities:

 Monthly review of inventory requirements for a wide portfolio of professional tool,

equipment, and safety products.

 Purchase order; processing, tracking, confirmation, and importing of shipments.

 Providing regular forecasts of future ordering requirements to vendors.

 Daily correspondence with our international suppliers and logistics partners.

 Produce both weekly and monthly reports for management.

 Setting up new vendors and products on our ERP system.

 Checking import documents and billing documentation for accuracy.

 Customs clearance of products by brokerage or self-brokerage.

 Providing the warehouse with documentation for initial receipt of goods.

 Costing of shipments.

 Arranging deliveries with local truckers and international freight forwarders.

 Processing invoices for payment.

 Closing and maintaining import files.

 Maintenance of supplier files.

 Other duties to be assigned when required.

 Collaborate closely with Merchandise and Sales teams to create and manage seasonal

and yearly demand plans to meet business and departmental goals, metrics for

forecast accuracy and planning data integrity.

 Analyze historical sales trends, research demand drivers, prepare forecast data,

develop statistical forecast models, and evaluate forecast results.

 Work closely with other Supply Chain teams on Supply Chain strategies as well

as the monitoring/tracking of various demand planning factors that impacts

product availability.

 Communicate forecast, including risks, uncertainty, and assumptions to

incorporate impacting factors and to identify trends, performance, and concerns.

 Participate in Supply Chain improvement projects and initiatives as they arise.

 Summarize and report relevant data to the management team. Participate in the

preparation of executive level information.

 Streamline and build efficiencies into the planning process. Collaborate with

peers in developing best practices and strategy.

 Coordinate with all necessary internal departments to ensure that production

timelines and deliveries are achieved.

 Foster positive, productive, proactive relationships with a wide variety of cross

functional partners.

Qualifications

 Bachelor’s degree in business, operations or related field.

 5+ years of experience in a similar role.

 Advanced MS Office Suite with focus on Excel user skills.

 Strong numerical aptitude.

 Anaplan experience, a plus.

 Strong working knowledge of SAP essential.