Supply Chain Planner

Job Title : Supply Chain Planner

Location : Summit, NJ- Hybrid (50% onsite required)

Duration : 12 months+

Job Description : Minimum 50% onsite required

Work schedule : Mon-Fri (normal business hours)

Pay rate : $34.31 / hr. on w2

Key Responsibilities :

• Analyze and interpret material demand changes, place purchase orders, monitor POs, invoices, and material life cycles, maintain supplier relationships, and execute materials and purchase order strategies to maintain on-time delivery of materials along with target inventory levels to support network CT product manufacturing and development.
• Collaborate with internal manufacturing sites to ensure master production schedule is aligned to ensure upcoming orders are fulfilled as per need-by dates.
• Lead production meetings with site and above-site representatives such as Manufacturing, Quality Assurance, Quality Control, MS&T, and Supply Chain.
• Work with QA, QC, and other cross-functional teams to ensure the appropriate amount of QC materials are tested, released, and available to support all manufacturing activities.
• Ensure that all input materials are available on time and at the right quantities to ensure material availability for production.
• Develop and maintain replenishment strategy for selected set of materials, ensuring that production demands are continuously met through periods of high growth and expansion.
• Ensure network evaluation, allocation, and transfers of materials is executed according to aligned SLA’s, strategies, and various set parameters across sites.
• Development and execution of supply forecast models / scenarios (internal and external) based on production demand that aligns with company objectives. Management and monitoring of QC materials demand / supply to ensure supply continuity and minimization of obsolescence.
• Support material planning master data analysis. Identify opportunities for process efficiencies, standardization, and alignments across the network.
• Mitigate any potential material shortages in a timely manner by leveraging the tier structure to ensure successful mitigation.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and implement process improvements while maintaining open communication with all teams and fostering environment of cooperation to achieve shared goals.
• Perform other tasks as assigned.