Senior Planner

As a Senior Planner at Wesco, you will be responsible for creating, reviewing, publishing, and refining demand and supply plans across multiple sources and shipping points to deliver high-quality inventory projections. Your goal will be to ensure the right product is at the right place at the right time, supporting the demand and supply review steps within the SIOP process. You will collect input from Planning, Sales, Category & Inventory Management, Purchasing, Operations, and Finance teams to achieve world-class service levels and inventory performance, including all product life-cycle stages.

**Key Responsibilities:**

• Engage with cross-functional teams to support world-class demand and/or supply planning processes.
• Own development and maintenance of demand and supply plans to reach agreed service levels with optimal inventory at lowest cost to serve.
• Develop optimal item and location-level inventory projections for a 24-month rolling horizon for a subset of categories using demand signals, source capabilities, and organizational goals.
• Develop total customer SKU level unit forecast for selected key accounts within tolerance to Sales/Finance Gross Sales Volume and COGS, input to monthly SIOP Demand, Supply, and Executive Review meetings.
• Translate supply planning service level impact and constraining forecasts as per management direction, freeing up cash flow and reflecting customer restock volumes and contractual obligations.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to meet/exceed SC&O KPIs: forecast accuracy, inventory levels and availability, service level, and On-Time-In-Full (inbound & outbound) among others.
• Ensure system data integrity and develop processes to improve master data accuracy for distribution network.
• Work with the Planning Manager and/or Director, as well as the planning team, on accelerating the adoption of best-of-breed process enablers and champion the discipline within the SBU.
• Coordinate with Senior Buyer & Buyers on material availability and execution of suggested replenishment plan.
• Generate/Evaluate 'What-If' Scenarios for critical business intersections as part of the monthly SIOP process.
• Maintain planning operating model integrity with quality inputs to Demand and/or Supply Planning decision support systems and identify improvements to existing processes.

**Requirements:**

• Associate Degree (U.S.)/College Diploma (Canada) required.
• Bachelor's Degree - Supply Chain, Business Administration, Finance, or related field preferred.
• Licenses/Certificates/Designations - Institute for Supply Management (ISM), Blue Yonder (JDA) or other leading Advanced Planning System (APS), American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS) Production and Inventory Management (CPIM) or Supply Chain Professional (CSCP) preferred.
• 5+ years of experience in Demand and/or Supply Planning or Inventory Management.
• 3+ years of experience in analyzing complex data, identifying patterns, and analysis techniques to develop conclusions and insights used for decision-making processes.
• Ability to analyze data, make assumptions, and defend them.
• 2+ years of experience assisting supply chain transformations to ensure completion of milestones and initiatives.
• 3+ years of experience in projects planning and programs scheduling preferred.
• 2-3 years of experience in supply chain planning and/or related business transformation preferred.
• Strong knowledge of Supply Chain processes, such as SIOP - Sales, Inventory, and Operations Planning, Forecasting, Demand and Supply Planning, and Materials Management.
• Excellent communication and support skills, ability to explain complex concepts and analytics to non-technical audience, and translate user requirements into actionable data.
• Proficient multi-tasking skills, ability to prioritize and handle many projects at once with ever-shifting priorities and deadlines, and ability to track and manage progress.
• Proficient in MS Excel, Access, and/or PowerBI or other Business Intelligence (BI) Tools, e.g. Tableau, or Qlik.
• Ability to travel up to 25%.