Supply and Inventory Planner (m/f/d)

Stellenbeschreibung:

Overview

As a Supply and Inventory Planner, you translate demand plans into feasible supply strategies for test systems and options, balancing capacity, lead times, and inventory. You collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure supply feasibility, inventory health, and timely mitigations, enabling reliable customer service and efficient execution. You provide visibility into gaps, E&O exposure, and buffer effectiveness to support S&OP, shortage management, and risk-aware decision making. This role offers ownership over inventory positioning and risk mitigation in a multi-tier external manufacturing network.

Verantwortungsbereiche

Translate demand plans to feasible supply plans at test-system and options level, balancing capacity, material availability, lead times, inventory, and logistics constraints
Define and maintain inventory targets, safety stock, and buffer concepts aligned with service and cost objectives
Provide supply and inventory inputs for Supply Review and S&OP, including gaps, coverage, shortage risk, E&O exposure, and mitigations
Serve as planning interface between Demand & Supply Planning Lead and cross-functional teams including S&OE, Logistics, and external manufacturers
Run scenarios to assess impacts of demand changes, constraints, lead-time changes, and ramp-up on service, inventory, cost, and risk
Monitor inventory health across locations and coordinate mitigation to prevent obsolescence and excess
Coordinate execution handover with Supply Operations and S&OE, including constraints, shortages, expediting needs, and allocations
Maintain dashboards and reports tracking KPIs (feasibility, inventory health, coverage, turns, E&O risk, buffer effectiveness) and drive parameter improvements

Zentrale Anforderungen

Bachelor’s degree in a related field
Minimum 5+ years in supply/inventory planning, ideally in outsourced/external manufacturing
Strong understanding of capacity, lead times, MOQs, safety stock, buffers, E&O, and service/inventory trade-offs
Proven experience with ERP/MRP and planning systems (Oracle, Kinaxis)
Experience with contract manufacturers, suppliers, and global supply networks in matrix environments
Cross-functional planning interface experience (S&OP, shortage management, handover, escalation)
Strong analytical/problem-solving capabilities with data-driven approach
Exposure to NPI/change control, phase-in/phase-out, last-time-buy, obsolescence management
Preferred: APICS/ASCM CPIM/CSCP or equivalent
Experience with Power BI or similar reporting tools and advanced Excel