Remote Lifecycle Demand Planner

Summary

Join Samsara as a Demand Planner to oversee the hardware demand management process and drive planning strategy, build relationships, and deliver to the business OKRs. This is a highly visible role that offers an opportunity to make business-critical decisions that will improve customer service levels while minimizing inventory costs.

Requirements

• Degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Finance, or Economics
• 8+ years (or 6+ with Masters) of combined experience in consulting and supply chain planning, demand planning, or business planning
• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to clearly lay out assumptions, risks, and opportunities in logical models
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to quickly synthesize information in a digestible format for a wide variety of stakeholders
• Attention to detail while never losing sight of the big picture
• A proactive, positive approach to problem solving
• Deals with ambiguity, changing priorities and business volatility
• Strong understanding of ERP systems, Salesforce, Tableau, Planning Systems (e.g. Adaptive)

Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively with Sales, Product, and business unit leadership to establish an executable demand plan that supports the company’s strategic direction in the Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment process
• Deliver timely, accurate demand forecasts to achieve company objectives on revenue and cost with respect to renewals, partnerships, and channel sales
• Build cross-functional partnerships to understand activities in other parts of the business and how they may impact the demand forecast
• Communicate to leadership regarding the health of demand, changes in business trends, and risks & opportunities to the operating plan
• Own the service and End of Sale playbook and strategy, providing input on existing products, new product transitions, and product EOL
• Analyze, communicate, and monitor the impacts of demand changes to the Supply Chain and Operations teams, as relates to RMA and refurb volumes and timelines
• Drive improvements to the forecasting process by developing rigorous analyses using historical data and in-depth knowledge of the business, changing the forecast model to meet business needs as required
• Provide accountability to the demand management processes by reporting performance metrics, improvements, and monitoring historical performance
• Evolve operating procedures for supply-demand process and business systems. Proactively drive operational improvements
• Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s cultural principles (Focus on Customer Success, Build for the Long Term, Adopt a Growth Mindset, Be Inclusive, Win as a Team) as we scale globally and across new offices

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA
• Programming capabilities (SQL, Python)
• Electronics manufacturing experience

Benefits

Full time employees receive a competitive total compensation package along with employee-led remote and flexible working, health benefits, Samsara for Good charity fund, and much, much more