Supply Planner***Planificateur de l'approvisionnement

IPEX is one of the North American leading providers of advanced plastic piping systems. Our mission is to shape a better tomorrow by connecting people with water and energy.

We currently have an exciting opportunity as a Supply Planner.

This role is based in our Oakville office, and reports to the Supply Planning Manager.

Do not miss the opportunity to join a broad family of people-centric professionals, thought leaders and rapid thinkers, entrepreneurs in spirit and status quo-fighters!

Job Summary

The Supply Planner ensures that the production build plans are optimized to achieve and exceed organization objectives for service to customers and inventory health, for a portfolio of products (with approx. 1500+ SKUs).

The Supply Planner is a focal point for identifying detailed supply risks, highlighting trade-off decisions to key stakeholders, collaborating cross- functionally, and problem solving, to achieve the supply objectives.

Key Accountabilities/Responsibilities:

• Creates detailed supply plans in the short to mid-term horizon for assigned product categories, to achieve customer service and inventory health objectives, in alignment with the rough-cut capacity plan.

• Proactively identifies and communicates potential supply issues impacting the business.  Conducts ‘what-if’ analysis for supply scenarios.

• Develops strong relationships with key internal stakeholders including Sales, Customer Service, Manufacturing, other Planning functions, and Production Scheduling to problem solve and align on priorities and trade-off decisions in the case of supply shortages. 

• Provides master production schedule to the production schedulers on the priorities set from Sales for creating the optimal finite production schedule. 

• Works closely with colleagues for raw material replenishment to mitigate raw material supply risks. 

• Provides instruction to colleagues for inventory deployment, for balancing of inventory between locations to achieve fill rate and days of inventory objectives.

• Maintains planning master data and addresses non-productive inventory in alignment with Inventory Quality Ratio objectives. 

• Drives timely, appropriate actions to minimize the impact of deviations from the Supply Plan.

• Escalates in a timely manner and uses good judgement to intervene as needed to achieve KPIs for fill rates and inventory.

• Creates inventory projection reports for distribution capacity planning and Finance visibility on plan versus forecasts and working capital requirements.

• Creates inventory build strategy

• Works in a safe manner and demonstrates our corporate Values of We Dare, We Care, and We Deliver.

Job Requirements:

• University degree with a specialty in Supply Chain, Computers, Data Analytics or Engineering discipline.

• Other useful credentials and training include CPIM and Lean manufacturing.  

• 5 years of relevant supply planning experience, preferably within an industrial manufacturing or CPG environment; or relevant transferable skills and experience

• Experience with supply planning software desirable (especially SAP-IBP)

• Bilingual (French/English) is an asset

• Strong analytical ability, good judgement, and problem-solving skills

• Customer focus, with the drive for results

• Proficient with Microsoft Office, especially Excel; ability to interpret large amounts of data; high attention to detail

• Experience with data visualization and analysis using Power BI desirable

• Ability to work independently, and as a team player

• Adept at working in a fast-moving environment

• Strong communication skills, both written and oral

• Strong interpersonal skills

IPEX is committed to providing accommodations for people with disabilities throughout the recruitment process and, upon request, will work with qualified job applicants to provide suitable accommodation in a manner that takes into account the applicant’s accessibility needs due to disability. Accommodation requests are available to candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process for IPEX jobs. To request an accommodation, please contact HR at HR@ipexna.com

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