Channel Planner - For Future Consideration

Rivian • Irvine, CA

21h • Hybrid

About The Position

As the Channel Planner, Service Parts, you will support frontline operations by assisting Service Parts Advisors and ensuring Rivian Service Centers have the parts they need, when and where they need them, at an effective cost. You will drive materials management strategies to improve customer service. The role uses a hybrid model, working between an office at Rivian facilities in Irvine, California or other regional Rivian locations and home. This position reports directly to the Manager, Channel Planner.

This is a proactive posting intended to build a pipeline of qualified candidates for future openings. Candidates will be contacted if a matching position becomes available.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Arts degree in Data Analytics, Supply Chain, Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience with high-volume ordering in a fast-paced distribution environment.
• Strong collaboration skills and willingness to drive change.
• Knowledge or experience establishing and managing analytics-based performance tracking within supply chain.
• Clear understanding of planning systems, warehouse management systems, inventory-level establishment, and integration and interdependencies across ERP systems.
• Strong analytical and structured problem-solving capabilities.
• Process design experience, with the ability to understand, document, and transform complex processes.
• Ability to sit or stand at a desk or in collaborative spaces for 8–12 hours per day.
• Ability to type on a keyboard and use a computer mouse.
• Ability to communicate by telephone, video conference, in-person meetings, and email or chat.
• Ability to view, read, and interpret documents and IT systems.
• Ability to perform duties in an office environment that may have ambient noise and temperature fluctuations.
• Ability to travel locally in a personal vehicle, regionally, or nationally less than 5% of the time.

Nice To Haves

• 2–3 years of experience in Automotive, Tier 1, OEM, or a technical field, with emphasis in demand supply chain, materials management, distribution, or logistics.
• Master's degree or MBA in a related discipline.
• Proficiency in SAP, Google Workspace, PTC-Servigistics, DataBricks, Hex, SQL, and Python (Python is a plus).

Responsibilities

• Support the Channel Planning and Analytics strategic plan to improve service levels while reducing inventory and optimizing safety stocks.
• Own master data and inventory parameters for Service Center materials to support demand-forecast-based stocking, strong fill rates, reduced downtime, and cost-efficient supply chain models.
• Support the development, launch, and continuous improvement of part inventory stocking models and strategies, part-order replenishment logic, and distribution planning to meet global SLAs.
• Evaluate and analyze system outputs to ensure the correct materials are ordered, replenished, and available for global service requirements; focus on automation and controls to identify errors and modify, remove, or add orders to address forecasted and unforecasted demand.
• Coordinate and execute transactional material movements to optimize and reduce logistics costs, meet SLAs, and reduce global inventory costs.
• Drive operational excellence and best practices across the network to reduce costs and improve service levels, including replenishment-order generation and Bill of Distribution.
• Collaborate with Service Field Operations, Supply Chain Planning, Demand Planning, and other partners to launch channel planning and clarify service-level expectations, part allocation strategy, availability, inventory refresh cycles, consumption, and field performance.
• Seek out innovations and present strategies for continuous improvement across the organization.
• Perform additional responsibilities as assigned.

Benefits

• Paid vacation.
• Paid sick leave.
• Insurance benefits, including life, medical, dental, vision, short-term disability, and long-term disability insurance, subject to eligibility.
• Opportunity to participate in Rivian's 401(k) Plan, subject to eligibility requirements.
• Employee Stock Purchase Program, subject to eligibility requirements.
• Annual performance bonus may be available.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level