Senior Supply Planning Analyst

Summary

Join ecobee, a rapidly growing global tech company, as a Supply Planner. This high-visibility role involves managing inventory planning, production scheduling, and vendor relationships. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize inventory levels, improve landed costs, and ensure efficient warehouse management. The position requires 3-5 years of supply planning experience in a CPG environment and strong analytical and communication skills. ecobee offers a competitive compensation package, including health benefits, a progressive parental top-up program, flexible work arrangements, and professional development opportunities.

Requirements

• You have 3-5 years of supply planning experience within a CPG environment
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with the ability to influence decision making
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to work with large data sets to identify trends and anomalies
• Experience developing and presenting reports for stakeholders from account managers to senior executives
• Comfortable using Netsuite or a similar ERP
• The hired candidate will be required to complete a background check

Responsibilities

• Drive the monthly Inventory planning process; managing meeting cadence and stakeholder outputs while ensuring flexibility to respond to business needs
• Decide on production priorities and work with factory to create a production schedule that considers constraints e.g line capacity, labour, batch sizes, run rates, bottlenecks, planned downtime
• Create long term forecast for our factories to ensure they can adequately prepare for long term capacity growth and component sourcing
• Establish repeatable, scalable approach to inventory planning that can accommodate our planned sales and product growth; integrate data sources needed to improve inventory visibility - meet deliverables including order placement, replenishment, OTB management and process management
• Present action plans to senior management, communicate risks and opportunities, and gain consensus on business approach
• Manage planning process for all refurbished & repair part inventory
• Partner with the demand planning team to drive allocation strategy when inventory is low and support the creation of a back in stock plan
• Drive improvement in landed costs by working with the logistics team to develop and implement flow strategies that transport product at lowest cost possible
• Work closely with the Warehouse Supervisor to ensure effective warehouse space management and the transfer of goods between warehouses as required
• Collaborate with procurement and supplier management team to work through raw material shortages/concerns while optimizing costs
• Manage vendor relationships and communication related to targets, past business performance, in stocks, outstanding issues and forecasts
• Produce scorecards to evaluate inventory performance at all warehouses and supplier performance to forecasts

Benefits

• Competitive salaries
• Health benefits
• Progressive Parental Top-Up Program (75% top-up or five bonus days off)
• Flexible hours
• Office-based, fully remote, or hybrid work environment
• Professional learning budget