Replenishment Planner

Weber Blackstone • Palatine, IL

28d • $74,000 - $83,000

About The Position

The Replenishment Planner develops and manages material delivery plans that ensure uninterrupted supply for operations and customer demand while optimizing inventory investment. The role closely monitors execution and proactively addresses exceptions. It supports production and customer service goals by balancing operational needs, inventory turns, and customer order fill rates. The posting states that the Senior Replenishment Planner reports to the Supply Planning Manager; it does not clarify whether that reporting line applies to this Replenishment Planner role.

The planner collaborates with Manufacturing, Sourcing, Quality, Inventory Control, Engineering, and Finance; supports material planning for new products; translates production and purchasing plans into inventory investment projections; and leads review and improvement efforts for one or more team performance indicators. The position has no direct supervisory responsibilities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Supply Chain Management or Business.
• Demonstrated success in problem solving within a business environment.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Planning and organizational skills, including demonstrated ability to multitask.
• Knowledge of MRP/ERP systems.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office software.

Nice To Haves

• Five years of supply chain experience preferred.
• Experience with SAP is a plus.
• APICS CPIM certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop and optimize material delivery plans that balance operations and inventory turns while maximizing customer order fill rate.
• Manage supplier delivery performance to reduce variability between expected and actual deliveries.
• Ensure raw material delivery and inventory plans support production without interruption.
• Analyze sales forecasts against actual sales to identify variability affecting future inventory and fill-rate performance.
• Monitor customer order fill-rate performance and mitigate its key drivers.
• Manage supplier performance to improve product lead times and inventory turns.
• Communicate supplier performance standards, develop improvement initiatives, and solicit and provide formal feedback.
• Collaborate with Manufacturing, Sourcing, Quality, Inventory Control, Engineering, and Finance to ensure plans are realized.
• Support new product planning to incorporate and execute material planning needs.
• Translate future production and purchasing plans into inventory investment projections that meet inventory-turn goals, and ensure plans are executed.
• Identify and implement physical and transactional supply-chain efficiency improvements.
• Lead work on one or more team performance indicators, coordinating review, assessment, feedback, and action plans.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Life and disability insurance.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• 401(k) with company match.
• Eligible for paid time off, including vacation, sick, personal, and holiday time.

What This Job Offers

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