Supply and Demand Planning Manager

Trackonomy • San Jose, CA

4h

About The Position

At Trackonomy, our employee value proposition champions your growth through varied responsibilities and a commitment to innovation. We believe every team member is essential and regarded as a founder, aiming to make a lasting impact on the world. We offer diverse roles and opportunities to learn from seasoned leaders, where potential, passion, and results define career trajectory. Merit and opportunity are prioritized over mere experience, offering unique growth opportunities. Trackonomy is dedicated to impactful tech solutions that better our world, from fire prevention to enhanced security, saving lives and changing industries. We are pioneering a transformative network of interconnected objects, aiming to create the operating system for the connected world by enabling inanimate objects to converse, think, and interact in real-time. Our devices integrate with physical entities to facilitate a global conversation. Our overarching mission is to craft the operating system for the connected world, one object, and sensor at a time. Our customers are major players in various verticals such as logistics, industrial, utilities, healthcare, and government. They use our solutions for a wide range of applications like predictive maintenance, workflow optimization, asset protection, safety, security, and environmental monitoring. We are a unicorn, funded by top investors like Kleiner Perkins and 8VC. Our executive leadership team has experience working together for over two decades, having previously held key roles in the C-suites of renowned companies such as Flextronics, Heptagon, GT-Nexus, and Digital Motors Corporation. Together, we have engineered a revolutionary technology that is yielding extraordinary results. This position will establish and drive improvements in both the S&OP process and master production scheduling process to ensure that factory output matches customer demand in the short-term and long-term while carrying minimum effective inventory. The Supply and Demand Planning Manager will work closely with Sales and Marketing to determine customer demand and supply chain, production planning and manufacturing to produce a plan consistent with total factory capacity and the sales forecast. The qualified individual must be able to facilitate complex planning for all aspects of production and possess substantial product, plant, process and market knowledge as their actions have a significant impact on customers, material and capacity planning.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, business administration or a related field required
• 5-10 years of experience in materials management, manufacturing, operations, or hardware development
• Strong planning background in the materials, manufacturing and engineering environment
• Forecasting and inventory management skills. Extremely proficient with establishing planning parameters (MOQ, safety stock, reorder points, etc.)
• Experience developing succinct, crisp executive summaries and presenting to leadership
• Results oriented - has a track record for delivering results, takes ownership and is accountable

Nice To Haves

• MBA preferred
• Ability to drive forward solutions in ambiguous situations with limited supervision
• Open-minded self-starter with the ability to adapt, improvise and problem solve
• Motivated, detail-oriented, and meet deadlines in a dynamic environment
• Ability to work independently on multiple tasks and projects with various stakeholders
• Ability to collaborate cross-functionally, work across multiple teams, and drive complex schedules, assess priorities, and identify gaps
• Organizational skills to manage transactional details
• Excellent analytical skills with spreadsheet tools
• Demonstrated ability to establish business process issues and drive process improvement
• Thorough understanding of a manufacturing business and supply chain
• Experience using MRP / ERP systems (Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central preferred)
• Sound knowledge of supply chain processes and procedures including manufacturing planning, demand, and replenishment processes.
• A demonstrated background in low volume and high mix manufacturing.
• Professional certification by the American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS) preferred
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and presentation skills. Ability to clearly express oneself verbally and in writing in the English language. Communicate effectively with employees and other business contacts in a courteous and professional manner
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
• Ability to manage complexity and resolve conflicts that arise from balancing multiple priorities
• Able to positively manage situations of a dynamic nature; to be able to modify plans, actions, and decisions considering changing situations and circumstances while still meeting, or proposing modified, deadlines
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to be accurate, detail-oriented, and to remain calm in stressful situations.
• Excellent customer focus with a high sense of urgency
• Proficient in MS office applications (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook)

Responsibilities

• Integrates sales orders with master schedule; coordinates availability of raw materials, supplies, equipment, and staff as needed to meet delivery dates
• Analyze and identify risks associated with the options built into the Master Production Schedule, including manufacturing lead times
• Maintain raw material and finished goods inventory at target levels to ensure high service levels
• Identify inventory reduction opportunities which can translate into projects which deliver a specific savings amount
• Working with production planners, regenerate and maintain a periodic Master Production Schedule to meet customer requirements to ensure inventory levels and production efficiencies
• Analyze, organize, record and publish weekly and/or monthly graphs for planning and purchasing key performance metric indicators
• Follow through on strategy on short and long-term department goals
• Work closely with Sales and Finance to align on forecast plans

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees