**Position**:
Regional Supply Planner
**Functional Area**:
Supply Chain Planning
**Level**:
Individual Contributor
**Reports to**:
Regional Planning Manager
**Direct reports**:
0
**Role**:
Operational
**Years of Experience**:
5-8
**Languages**:
Spanish and English.
**Education**:
Bachelor Degree (Minimum)
Master's Degree (Plus)
**Preferred Majors**:
Industrial Engineering
Business Administration
International Relations or similar to Supply Chain
**Roles and Responsibilities:
- Accountable for Supply Chain key metrics - i.e. inventory turns, fill rate, excess & obsolete inventory, etc. ensuring optimal customer service and corporate policy compliance for multiple countries.
- Responsible for managing item planning parameters including but not limited to lead time, MOQ, safety stock, etc.
- Owner of SKU management (+1,000 items) and rationalization including new product introductions, transitions and lifecycle management.
- Act as main point of contact with vendors allowing them visibility of regional initiatives in order to ensure timely supply of products.
- Run and manage the MPS, approving and optimizing the purchase plan and inventory projections for each country in the region, including the reallocation of goods when necessary.
- Follow-up on purchase orders placed to suppliers to ensure on time availability on the countries.
- Perform continuous maintenance of planning parameters and update as needed.
- Act as the main point of contact with Regional Marketing, gathering information regarding new trends, seasonality, events management, product life cycle and others that might have an impact on the supply plan and adjust accordingly to avoid service failures.
- Own and manage the planning systems and tools
- Align with Planning Manager & Country Manager in order to meet the inventory goals at the country level.
- Effectively communicate with demand planners to ensure new initiatives and products are properly recorded and timely reflected in the supply plan in order to avoid disruptions.
- Provide FOB prices from Vendors to support OP Plan process.
- Track the vendor shipment performance (to develop a metric/report).
**Experience required**:
- Experience working with suppliers in Asia and US. Have worked for Latin America.
- At least 5 years of experience in a consumer goods or similar industry, having managed product portfolios of more than 1,000 SKUs in supply replenishment and purchasing planning roles.
- Inventory management
- Purchases
- IBP Process
- Deep knowledge of Supply / Manufacturing planning (MPS, MRP, CRP)
- P&L Knowledge desired
**Technical Knowledge Required**:
- Supply Chain Management
- S&OP (Sales & Operations Planning)
- Imports & Exports Processes
- Inventory and Service Levels KPIs
**Technical Knowledge Desired**:
- Production and Fulfillment Processes
- APICS CPIM
- Six Sigma
**Skills**:
- Strategic and critical thinking
- Decision making
- Excellent communication: Internal, external, cross-functional, global.
- Excellent analytical skills
- High energy level/highly motivated
- Results and data driven - drives for action, for trying new things and for getting things done.
- Excellent interpersonal and team work.
- Financial analysis skills a plus
**Systems**:
- Advanced Excel - (Macros desirable)
- ERP: SAP
- Planning: JDA or Manugistics, i2, APO
- Business Intelligence: BW or Business Objects, PBI, Qlik
**We Don't Just Build The World, We Build Innovative Technology Too.**
Joining the Stanley Black & Decker team means working in an innovative, tech-driven and highly collaborative team environment supported by over 58,000 professionals in 60 countries across the globe. Here, you'll get the unique chance to impact some of the world's most iconic brands including STANLEY TOOLS, DEWALT, CRAFTSMAN, MAC TOOLS and Black + Decker. Your ideas and solutions have the potential to reach millions of customers as we work together to write the next chapter in our history. Come build with us and take your career to new heights.
**Who We Are**
We're the World's largest tool company. We're industry visionaries. We're solving problems and advancing the manufacturing trade through innovative technology and our Industry 4.0 Initiative. We are committed to ensuring our state-of-the-art "smart factory" products and services provide greater quality to our customers & greater environmental and social value to our planet. We are unique in that we have a rich and storied history dating back to 1843, but that hasn't stopped us from evolving into a vibrant, diverse, global growth company.
**Global Benefits & Perks**
You'll be rewarded with a competitive salary plus receive entitlements and benefits unique to your country of hire.
**What You'll Also Get**
Career Opportunity: Career paths aren't linear here. Being part of our global company with 60+ brands gives you the chance to grow and develop your skills along multiple career paths.
**Learning & Development**:
Our lifelong lea
