Dometic is a global market leader in the mobile living industry. Millions of people around the world use Dometic products in outdoor, residential, and professional applications. We are on a growth journey – now looking for a Supply Planner for covering Dometic Parts / Spare Parts.
About The Position
As a Supply Planner for Dometic Parts / Spare Parts, you are responsible for managing complex spare parts portfolios characterized by sporadic demand and high-mix, low-volume structures. Your mission is to balance customer service levels (On Time Shipment), safety stock targets, and inventory efficiency while ensuring high long-term availability across the network.
Your Main Responsibilities
- Inventory Optimization: Conduct regular ABC/XYZ analyses to segment the spare parts portfolio by value and demand predictability and define differentiated planning and safety stock strategies accordingly.
- Lifecycle & Obsolescence Management: Own and drive the End-of-Life (EoL) process, including the calculation and execution of Last Time Buys (LTB), to secure spare parts availability over extended lifecycles (often 10+ years).
- Supply Execution & Expediting: Monitor open purchase orders, proactively manage delivery risks, and follow up with suppliers to ensure reliable supply performance.
- Supersession Management: Manage technical replacement chains and part number supersessions to enable smooth transitions from old to new items while minimizing obsolete inventory and waste.
- Cross-functional Collaboration: Act as a key interface between Technical Service, Procurement, Logistics, and other stakeholders to align supply plans with service requirements, product changes, and market developments.
- Performance & Issue Management: Proactively identify deviations in availability, inventory levels, or supplier performance and initiate corrective actions.
- Master Data & System Management: Maintain and continuously improve supply-chain-relevant master data to ensure planning accuracy and system integrity.
- Process & System Improvement: Actively contribute to the continuous improvement and further development of planning processes, tools, and systems across the Dometic Parts network.
- Customs Clearance: Dedicated customs clearance support for imports to ensure seamless end-to-end logistics.
- Operational & Administrative Tasks: Handle administrative activities related to the ordering process, including appointment updates, invoice approvals, and in-transit bookings.
What do we offer?
You are offered an interesting role in a dynamic, fast paced, and global environment with great opportunities to grow, evolve with the company and take on new challenges.
Dometic is passionate about building together an inclusive and equitable working environment, that respects individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that diversity enables us to thrive across our differences. Be yourself and join us!
A suitable background would be
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Business Administration, or a related field
- 1-2 years of experience in supply planning is a plus
- Fresh graduates are welcomed!
- Fluency in English and German (verbal as well as written)
- Strong analytical skills with a good command of statistical concepts; ability to interpret demand variability, outliers, and data “noise” to derive actionable insights
- High affinity for IT; experience with data-driven environments is a strong plus
To be successful in this role, we believe that you possess the following skills, competencies & characteristics
- As a motivated professional launching a career in supply planning, you bring a strong focus on process optimization and transparency.
- You are eager to apply your analytical skills to detailed spare parts management while maintaining a clear view of the broader, end-to-end supply chain.
- You are known as a structured, flexible, and resilient team player who performs well in fast-paced environments with changing priorities.
- You have a strong affinity for IT systems and data-driven decision-making and are motivated to explore AI-supported tools to further enhance forecasting and inventory optimization. Collaboration comes naturally to you.
- Through close communication with internal and external stakeholders, you actively contribute to achieving availability, service level, and inventory targets.
Dometic's Core Values
To thrive and succeed in this role, you understand the importance of our core values – Together We build our future, We play to win, We embrace change and We walk the talk; these values reflect the heart and soul of Dometic and they define what it takes to work here and how we do things.
Dometic operates with a 4+1 policy, 4 days per week in the office and the possibility to work 1 day per week remotely. We see the social aspect of being in the office, meeting colleagues, having short coffee break interactions or a quick face to face meeting as key to success as we become more productive and fast paced in terms of problem solving, learning, cross functional collaboration and not the least in a way to have fun at work!
Are you our next star? Then we would love to see your application. Selection is being made on a rolling basis.
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