Lead Time Planner

Your Job

Lead Time Planner

Our Team

Governance of End-to-End lead times (transit lead times between locations, internal production lead times, inbound lead times from external suppliers) for all material types.

What You Will Do

• Collaborate with lead time owners/stakeholders to align market competitiveness, supply strategies and inventory requirements
• Sourcing and Procurement for external Supplier Lead Times
• Production planners for internal Production Lead Times
• Global Transportation team for Transit Lead Times
• Product and Sales team for Published Customer Lead Times
• Evaluate financial tradeoffs of lead times (impacts on revenue/profitability/market share/customer satisfaction against cost to serve)
• Evaluate inventory risk of pre-positioning/excess build against loss of sales/customer
• Determine solution and associated costs to meet product strategy
• Establish formal, repeatable process to assess existing items and define for new product introductions
• Consider a centralized capability using scalable analytics to support division led decision making process
• Utilize analytics to determine supply strategy and associated costs to meet product strategy
• Utilize key resources from various stakeholders as an input to planning and execution processes
  
  
  

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Supply Chain Management, APICS certification desirable
• Minimum 2-3 years’ work experience in Supply chain planning
• Exposure to inventory planning and replenishment tools
• Familiarity with ERP environment, preferably with SAP ECC
• Superb analytical and problem-solving skills, detail oriented
• Solid written and verbal communication skills
• Great collaborative and interpersonal skills
  
  
  

What Will Put You Ahead

• SAP PP module applications; MRP knowledge, Inventory Management
• APICS certification
• Ability to process and evaluate large data sets
• Usage of data process & visualization tools, e.g. Tableau, python
• GSOP knowledge is preferred
  
  
  

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Who We Are

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.