There is a wide range of these types of roles – some are planning based, others focus on data, some focus on logistics and movement of goods. Here are a few sample job advertisements for these types of roles:
LG Household & Health Care is a leading company in lifestyle and culture that helps our customers realize their beauty and dreams. We share our core values Beautiful, Healthy, and Refreshing with our customers. As a creative consumer marketing company, we go beyond the boundaries of conventional household goods and cosmetics to introduce creative products and services based on our customers’ needs.
About the Role
The Supply Chain Manager is responsible for planning, implementing and monitoring the overall supply chain strategy to ensure process efficiency and productivity.
· Plan and implement the overall supply chain strategy
· Manage and lead Supply Chain Specialist to ensure that the team is aligned to the business objectives
· Collaborate and coordinate with Logistics and Finance to ensure an integrated and effective operations process and determine the best distribution strategy
· Liaise with Sales, E-Commerce and Customer Services teams and suppliers on a regular basis
· Place orders from overseas HQ and ensure timely and accurate deliverables
· Must be able to create purchase orders in the Company’s internal SCM system
· Coordinate and manage all inbound and outbound traffic and track all deliveries
· Develop and maintain strong client relationships and deliver excellent customer service
· Prepare management reports and provide analysis related to strategy
· Identify opportunities and suggests solutions for process improvements
· Plan for and oversee regular inventory checks and ensure that effective stock keeping system is in place
· Communicate effectively and clearly with overseas HQ escalate any issues to management
Requirements
· 5-7 years of experience in Supply Chain Management with a global organization
· Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain Management, Finance or relevant field
· SAP/ Oracle Enterprise One System knowledge preferred
· Excellent attention to detail and time management skills
· Willingness to be able to work to time sensitive deadlines
· Proactive problem solver with ability to communicate clearly and effectively
· Adaptable, and highly motivated to succeed in an ever changing environment
· Sense of ownership in performance and its impact on the Company’s overall success
· Strong Microsoft Office Skills (Excel, PPT, Word)
· Bilingual English/ Korean preferred
Job Type: Full-time
This Job Is Ideal for Someone Who Is:
- Dependable — more reliable than spontaneous
- People-oriented — enjoys interacting with people and working on group projects
- Adaptable/flexible — enjoys doing work that requires frequent shifts in direction
- Detail-oriented — would rather focus on the details of work than the bigger picture
- Achievement-oriented — enjoys taking on challenges, even if they might fail
- Autonomous/Independent — enjoys working with little direction
- Innovative — prefers working in unconventional ways or on tasks that require creativity
- High stress tolerance — thrives in a high-pressure environment
The incumbent develops SKU level supply plans for our internal and contract manufacturers, and co-packers. Through high levels of understanding of our products & processes, and superior analytical skills ensures consistent and timely order fulfillment, optimizes inventory levels, and ensures high levels of efficiencies in the plants.
Duties & Responsibilities:
-Schedule Somerset FG Production to include analyzing forecasts, order & sales trends, promotions, new product introductions to produce the appropriate finished goods exactly when needed, whilst maintaining efficiencies at the plant.
-Design, maintain, analyze supply chain metrics.
-Identifies underperforming areas of the supply chain and suggest areas for improvement or resolutions.
-Maintenance includes Follow ups on production, transfers, and RAW materials.
-Conduct capacity planning analyses to ensure plants can produce to plan.
-Ensure that production status and priorities are aligned and communicated
-Communicate to Purchasing any shortages of materials – follow up with them daily until answers are received-
-Prepare production reports and graphs for schedule attainment and correlate with order fulfillment and the sales forecast.
-Assist in monitoring inventory levels at all locations.
-Maintain the Item to warehouse connections in M3.
-Prioritize and firm up the weekly plans to ensure customer order fulfillment
-Maintain Master Data Item Rationalization.
-Work Closely with Customers Service to maintain alignment with service levels.
-Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
-Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Operations Management, Business or related discipline.
-5+ years’ experience in planning/scheduling in CPG environment.
-Demonstrated strong analytical, strategic and problem-solving skills.
-Advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Office including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
-Strong written and verbal communication skills; strong interpersonal and organization skills; and, demonstrated ability to develop and maintain strong relationships.
-Diligent attention to detail is a must.
-Exceptional performance and record of achievement.
-Self-motivated and bias for action.
The Supply Chain Planning Analyst identifies underperforming areas in the supply chain and may suggest improvements or resolutions to problems. Gathers data and conducts analysis with the goal of improving the organization’s supply chain operations. Being a Supply Chain Planning Analyst typically requires a bachelor’s degree or equivalent. May assist in the negotiation of supplier contracts or service arrangements. In addition, Supply Chain Planning Analyst typically reports to a manager or head of a unit/department. Working as a Supply Chain Planning Analyst typically requires 2 to 4 years of related experience. Gains exposure to some of the complex tasks within the job function. Occasionally directed in several aspects of the work.
Job Type: Full-time
Experience:
- Supply Chain Experience in a CPG environment: 5 years (Preferred)
Work Location:
- One location
Benefits:
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Retirement plan
- Paid time off
- Other
Pay Frequency:
- Bi weekly or Twice monthly
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
—————-The Farmer’s Dog was created to radically improve the $90 billion global pet food industry — starting with a subscription service that sends freshly-made food directly to customers’ doors. Long term, our aim is to simplify every part of pet care, bettering the lives of the animals who make our lives better. We recently raised our Series B and are backed by early investors of Warby Parker, Dollar Shave Club, Sweetgreen, and Glossier.
Join The Farmer’s Dog team as we continue to figure out ways of bringing peace of mind to customers, health to their companions, and much-needed change to the way people feed and care for their pets.
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Where You’ll Come In
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The Farmer’s Dog is looking for a Supply Chain Manager to join our growing team. This person will work closely with the Director of Manufacturing and act as the owner and central command of our operations team. This individual will start by managing a team of two who are currently executing on the end-to-end supply chain of our business.
The primary goal of the Supply Chain Manager will be optimizing strategic execution plans and processes to improve the business. As a leader of one of our core teams, this person is expected to operate with a sense of urgency while also establishing fail-safe provisions for any contingencies. This person will be the escalation level for issues that arise in the daily business.
This individual will need to ensure their team is executing on all daily and weekly tasks by providing development, coaching, and support to direct-reports. As Operations Manager, they will own the relationship with fulfillment center leadership and be expected to map improvements for both internal teams and external fulfillment on a 3 to 6 month horizon.
How You’ll Make An Impact
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- Ensure direct-reports successfully execute on the following tasks: purchasing order processes for inbound shipping & fulfillment inventory management, allocating customer orders to fulfillment centers & last mile execution, and FedEx shipments
- Accountable for the weekly efficiency & cost metrics of the supply chain
- Own weekly communication and planning with the fulfillment center leadership team to optimize box production efficiency, reduce cost, improve error rates
- Work with Director of Supply Chain on strategic projects around long-range planning for fulfillment center capacity and capabilities
- Improve operational week-to-week process (purchase orders through last-mile delivery) to improve business efficiency, accuracy, and ability to take on more complexity in product assortment
- Work with current and new suppliers of packaging and inbound freight to improve cost and quality.
We’re Excited About You Because
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- 6+ years of experience working in supply chain operations
- 2+ years of management experience, overseeing a small team and owning performance management
- Previous experience owning vendor relationships and managing vendor performance
- Strong understanding of direct to consumer business models
Benefits
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- Brand new dog-friendly office in Greenwich Village (complete with free-roaming friendly dogs)
- Comprehensive Healthcare, Dental, and Vision
- Flexible PTO and WFH policy
- Discounted fresh food for your pup
- Fresh breakfast, snacks and coffee for the humans
- Strict daily belly rub quota
Inspired Beauty Brands, Inc. is a rapidly growing developer and marketer of beauty care products. The Company’s owned and operated brands include HASK (www.haskbeauty.com), Mane Club (www.maneclubnyc.com) and Jhirmack (www.jhirmack.com). The Company’s brands have a strong market presence and loyal consumer base across multiple age and ethnic demographics. Inspired Beauty’s products are sold worldwide through its retail partners including Walmart, Target, Walgreens, Ulta, CVS, Rite Aid, Sally Beauty, Amazon, Dollar General, Harmon, Kroger, Fred Meyer, Jean Coutu, Kmart, Boots, Superdrug, Coles, DM and many other key retailers in over 55 countries around the world.
Position Overview
The primary role of the Planning Coordinator is to assist in demand and supply planning. Working as a part of the operations/planning squad, this team member will play a crucial role in accurately estimating customer demand and coordinating necessary inventory planning to meet said demand.
The position will report directly to the Planning Manager and will work closely and cross-functionally with our internal Supply Chain and Sales teams.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
Demand Planning
- Develop demand forecasts (operational forecasts) at multiple levels of aggregation for multiple time horizons as part of a demand planning function.
- Review historical sales trends, point-of-sale data, syndicated data, research demand drivers, prepare forecast data, develop statistical forecast models, and evaluate forecast results.
- Coordinate cross-functional research activities to reconcile significant variances and refine the forecast model to reflect updated sales and marketing assumptions.
- Interact with Sales, Marketing and Finance to understand demand forecast drivers.
- Utilize a collaborative and consensus approach by working with Sales, Marketing and Finance to obtain and ensure that current and accurate information is used for demand forecasts.
- Provide input to the Supply Planning organization in developing inventory strategies on existing items, new products, and product phase-outs.
- Closely coordinate and communicate customer action plans with supply planning.
- Work with existing demand planning software to effectively forecast recurring demand, event or promotional demand, and demand for new product launches.
- Calculate forecast error by sales person, product family, customer using MAPE, BIAS.
- Coordinate with Sales, Product Development, Purchasing, Order Processing, and Finance Departments as needed.
Supply Planning
- Run open order reports weekly. Modify component orders in the ERP system as needed. Communicate any potential issue or risk of delay to supplier.
- Interact daily with planning team, external vendors and logistics team to track the short-term production and delivery of our purchase orders to ensure supply levels and service level are consistent with company standards.
- Interact with promotional packaging team to understand project requirements, update in our planning system and communicate to greater supply team.
- Resolve other issues when needed on a daily basis.
EXPERIENCE/REQUIREMENTS:
The ideal candidate will possess:
- A minimum of 1-2 years of planning experience preferably in the health and beauty or consumer products industry.
- Bachelor’s degree required
- Outstanding interpersonal skills and the ability to build and maintain relationships with all internal departments as well as external parties.
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, including a high standard of spelling and grammar.
- Excellent follow-up skills.
- Self-motivated and driven to deliver the best, with an exceptional work ethic and a “do what it takes to get the job done” mentality.
- Strong sense of urgency.
- Willingness to contribute ideas and work within a team.
- Exceptional organizational skills and the ability to prioritize in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment.
- Keen eye for detail and organization.
- Analytical with strong understanding of Microsoft Office applications, including strong Excel (pivot table, VLOOKUP).
Job Type: Full-time
Work Location:
- One location
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday