Planning Manager

1 Day ago • 5 Years + • $102,000 PA - $146,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Planning Manager, you will create and maintain an effective supply plan and cash flow model to ensure effective supply planning for products, cables, and accessories, achieving target inventory levels and financial goals. You will collaborate with the Supply Chain Program Management and Logistics teams to align supply with forecasted demand and improve supply efficiency. You will monitor the execution of supply and cash flow plans, identify variances, and take corrective actions. You will be responsible for optimizing shipment schedules, reconciling data, and adapting to changes. The role requires strong teamwork and communication skills.
Must have:
  • 5 years of experience in supply planning.
  • Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel/Google Sheets.
  • Experience with ERP systems (SAP, NetSuite, or equivalent).
Good to have:
  • Experience in the semiconductor and technology industries.
  • Experience in Salesforce and Coupa.
  • MBA or Operations degree.

Job Details

Who we are:

Motive empowers the people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer, more productive, and more profitable. For the first time ever, safety, operations and finance teams can manage their drivers, vehicles, equipment, and fleet related spend in a single system. Combined with industry leading AI, the Motive platform gives you complete visibility and control, and significantly reduces manual workloads by automating and simplifying tasks.

Motive serves more than 120,000 customers – from Fortune 500 enterprises to small businesses – across a wide range of industries, including transportation and logistics, construction, energy, field service, manufacturing, agriculture, food and beverage, retail, and the public sector.

Visit gomotive.com to learn more.

About the Role: 

As a Planning Manager, your core responsibility is to create/maintain an effective supply plan and cash flow model to ensure effective supply planning for products, cables, and accessories, thus achieving targeted inventory levels and financial goals. On a daily basis, you’ll be working closely with the Supply Chain Program Management team and Logistics team to ensure supply/inventory aligns with forecasted demand as well as to improve supply efficiency. This role is data-driven and detail-oriented and requires strong teamwork with various internal teams. This role reports directly to the Senior Planning Manager.

What You’ll Do:

  • Create/maintain supply planning model to simulate/determine supply plan, achieving target inventory level and financial goals. 
  • Create/maintain cash flow model and work with broader teams, including commodity team, supply chain program manager team, and logistics team on product price, logistics costs, E&O, consign materials, etc, to get a holistic view of cash spend projection that can support the proposed supply plan.
  • Monitor the execution of supply plan and cash flow plan, identify the variances between actual and plan and follow up with appropriate stakeholders to implement corrective actions, ensuring execution aligns with the plan.
  • Collaborate closely with the supply chain program manager team and logistics team to optimize shipment schedules and arrangements to improve supply efficiency while achieving target inventory level and financial goals.
  • Review/reconcile data on a daily basis, identify discrepancies in data and follow through with appropriate stakeholders on the correction of data in systems.

What We’re Looking For: 

  • 5 years of working experience in supply planning or relevant areas. Experience in the semiconductor and technology industries is preferred.
  • Advanced in Microsoft Excel/Google Sheets (PivotTables, Vlookup, Index/Match, Importrange, etc.) is required. VBA or Python is a plus. 
  • Experience in ERP systems (SAP, NetSuite, or equivalent) is required. Experience in Salesforce is preferred, and experience in Coupa is a plus.
  • A degree in MBA or Operations is preferred.
  • Strong communication skills at all levels, teamwork, problem-solving, detail-orientated, and highly organized.
  • Comfortable working with data and performing data analysis on a daily basis.
  • Ability to adapt to changes, new problems, and new responsibilities as the need arises.

 

Pay Transparency
Your compensation may be based on several factors, including education, work experience, and certifications. For certain roles, total compensation may include restricted stock units. Motive offers benefits including health, pharmacy, optical and dental care benefits, paid time off, sick time off, short term and long term disability coverage, life insurance as well as 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Learn more about our benefits by visiting Motive Perks & Benefits.

The compensation range for this position will depend on where you reside. For this role, the compensation range is:

United States

$102,000 - $146,000 USD

Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is one of Motive's core values. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. 

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The applicant must be authorized to receive and access those commodities and technologies controlled under U.S. Export Administration Regulations. It is Motive's policy to require that employees be authorized to receive access to Motive products and technology. 

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