Worldwide Supply Demand Planner

Apple•Cupertino, CA

10d•Onsite

About The Position

Imagine what you can do here. Apple is a place where extraordinary people gather to do their lives best work. Together we create products and experiences people once couldn't have imagined, and now, can't imagine living without. It's the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do. APPLE INC has the following available in Cupertino, California and various unanticipated locations throughout the USA. Forecast demand, inventory, and multi-channel sell through generating weekly and quarterly supply plans that meet Apple's financial objectives. Evaluate risks, plan and implement contingency plans to mitigate. Analyze product sales on a daily basis. Identify opportunities and driving partner groups to appropriate action. Coordinate closely with regional product planning teams to ensure supply plans meet sales requirements. Coordinate with Marketing and New Product Operations teams to set launch quantities of new product introductions and to ensure smooth product transitions. Partner with the global procurement teams to allocate constrained components, ensuring raw material inventory targets are met, and minimizing material obsolescence during product transition and presenting product updates and recommended actions to Operations executive management team on a weekly basis. Identify improvement opportunities in the product planning process, marshal resources, and drive projects to completion.

Requirements

Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Finance, Statistics, International Business, Operations Research, Engineering or a related field and 3 years of experience in the job offered or related occupation.
Performing Advanced Quantitative Modeling utilizing Excel for calculating business decisions
Analyzing large data sets to actualize past operations, assess results, and plan for future requirements
Developing plans for strategic resources to optimize customer satisfaction while also considering financial goals and minimizing operational complexity
Performing Scenario Analysis and Risk Management, analyzing expected outcomes of different business decisions and recommending actions to minimize business losses
Presenting business status, risks and recommended solutions to managers and executives
Quantifying financial implications of business decisions, such as those involving capital expenditures
Coordinating with multiple internal groups/teams to manage business operations and collaborate on decision making
Managing projects or devising new processes to improve business planning operations

Responsibilities

Forecast demand, inventory, and multi-channel sell through generating weekly and quarterly supply plans that meet Apple's financial objectives.
Evaluate risks, plan and implement contingency plans to mitigate.
Analyze product sales on a daily basis.
Identify opportunities and driving partner groups to appropriate action.
Coordinate closely with regional product planning teams to ensure supply plans meet sales requirements.
Coordinate with Marketing and New Product Operations teams to set launch quantities of new product introductions and to ensure smooth product transitions.
Partner with the global procurement teams to allocate constrained components, ensuring raw material inventory targets are met, and minimizing material obsolescence during product transition.
Present product updates and recommended actions to Operations executive management team on a weekly basis.
Identify improvement opportunities in the product planning process, marshal resources, and drive projects to completion.