Supply Chain Planning Analyst II, S&OP

At Niagara, we’re looking for Team Members who want to be part of achieving our mission to provide our customers the highest quality most affordable bottled water.

Consider applying here, if you want to:   

• Work in an entrepreneurial and dynamic environment with a chance to make an impact.   
• Develop lasting relationships with great people.   
• Have the opportunity to build a satisfying career.

We offer competitive compensation and benefits packages for our Team Members.

Supply Chain Planning Analyst II, S&OP

The Supply Chain Planning Analyst 2, S&OP is a specialist who drives innovation and operational excellence by aligning the planning, operations, and sales teams within Niagara. He/she works across the full breadth and scale of Niagara’s supply chain, products, manufacturing and technologies to help create solutions that solve business and customer’s supply chain objectives. This role helps provide recommendations on capex planning and inventory and production strategy.

Essential Functions

• Strategic Planning (assist with the following by providing solutions to support):
  • Master Planning
    • Develop, drive, and implement aggregate master schedules that optimize product availability, batch strategy, and inventory policy
  • Strategic Capacity planning
    • Growth/expansion capacity planning (domestic + international)
    • Network Planning
    • Executing annual capacity expansion planning calendar
• Technical – Good with systems, and a strong database skillset (Access/SQL) and Excel background is required. Understanding technology and IT limitations is critical in managing improvement projects.
  • Ability to learn existing IT tools at Niagara quickly
  • Good knowledge of leveraging technical information for data collection
  • Basic understanding of supply chain optimization including Network flow optimization, Inventory Optimization and Facility Planning
  • Demand & Supply Planning Technology
    • Setup, customization & solution validation of various modules
    • Continuous improvement and automation to meet business rules/needs
    • Work with Solution Architect to setup data integrity policies & procedures
• Collaboration
  • Inter-Departmental Collaboration:
    • Collaborate with Finance and other stakeholders on CAPEX Projects
    • Transportation and Logistics supplier bid event support
    • Network design & strategic inventory build design
    • Monitor KPI’s and Metrics to drive performance management with key stakeholders
• Special Projects
  • Long term capacity planning and capex recommendations
    • Review new plants/new lines requirements for subsequent years and run model/scenarios for comparative analysis
• Please note this job description is not designed to contain a comprehensive list of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without prior notice.

Qualifications

• Minimum Qualifications:
  • 2 years – Experience in Planning, MRP, Procurement, Logistics, Finance or similar function

              *experience may include a combination of work experience and education

• Preferred Qualifications:
  • 4 years – Experience in Planning, MRP, Procurement, Logistics, Finance or similar function

*experience may include a combination of work experience and education

• Travels approximately 10%

Competencies

• Resourceful in defining systems strategy, developing systems requirements, designing and prototyping, testing, training, defining.
• Experience with Supply chain planning technologies like JDA, Logility, Oracle ASCP, etc.
• Experience with Supply chain optimization tools such as LogicNetPlus, Supply Chain Guru, IPFA, etc.
• Experience with Microsoft Excel for data analysis using formulas, pivot tables, power queries, etc.
• Experience with Microsoft Office Suite
• Experience utilizing Tableau or other data visualization tools
• Ability to Multi-task and Prioritize
• Strong analytical skills.
• Excellent Communication skills. Able to effectively communicate and present complex technical subjects.
• Access/SQL database skills
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where limited standardization exists.
• Strong verbal, interpersonal and organizational skills.
• Ability to prioritize work and meet deadlines
• Must be able to work well under pressure in a very fast paced environment

Education

• Minimum Required: 
  • Bachelor's Degree in Economics, Engineering, Mathematics, Supply Chain or other science / math related field, or equivalent work experience

• Preferred: 
  • Master's Degree in Economics, Engineering, Mathematics, Supply Chain or other science / math related field, or equivalent work experience

Certification/License:

• Required:           None Required
• Preferred:          APICS – CSCP, CPIM, CSCMP - SCPro

Foreign Language

• Required:           None Required
• Preferred:          None Required

Typical Compensation Range

Pay Rate Type: Salary

$78,619.75 - $113,998.64 / Yearly

Benefits

https://careers.niagarawater.com/us/en/benefits

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