Our mission is to power a brighter future together. One that is safe, smart, and sustainable.
Key responsibilities include:
Analyze forecasted demand across various sales channels, products, and warehouse locations to develop and execute weekly supply plans. These plans should align with Vivint's financial goals and Supply Chain KPIs.
Fully understand the relationship between the supply plan, lead time, safety stock, and production capacity to build a successful plan to support sales, while achieving and exceeding inventory turn targets.
Regularly analyze open purchase orders, purchase order adjustments, and changes in demand to adjust the supply plan accordingly, while working with the appropriate groups for corrective action.
Partner with Strategic Sourcing teams to ensure timely and accurate supply, understanding of critical needs, and improvements in contracts and terms to support business goals. In addition, provide NPI cutover strategies to Sourcing and Product Management to reduce E&O and increase sales opportunities.
Partner with the Sales Organization on historical and future changes in demand, through sales promotions, price adjustments, and business strategy shifts.
Partner with Field Planning to understand changes in demand at the micro level, using trends from Market Intelligence to predict macro changes in demand and changes to the supply plan.
Identify and recommend process improvement opportunities to management, with the ability to lead projects from start to finish.
Ability to do scenario planning with many complex and ambiguous variables, in order to drive to the optimal supply plan with the least risk
Procure goods and materials consistent with material and delivery requirements
Supplier negotiations related to the continuity of supply
Manage master data, purchase order execution, and other tasks in the day-to-day management of obtaining finished goods
Support in supplier quality issues
Maintain supplier relationships that encourage participation and contributions (processes, ideas, and improvements) and initiate actions required to maintain their performance at a high level
Primary liaison between supplier and Vivint when quality and supply issues arise
Participate with Strategic Sourcing to measure supplier performance
Manage the buying of certain electronic finished goods to support distribution to field technicians without interruption
Support and lead continuous improvement projects
Resolve supply constraints and ensure suppliers' capability/capacity to meet our needs.
Help lead supplier scorecard evaluation and coach suppliers as needed.
Who you will work with:
Strategic Sourcing
Commodity
Field Planning
External Suppliers
Logistics
Product
Product Marketing
Quality
Engineering
Receiving and Warehousing
Education/Experience preferred:
Education: BS degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, Engineering, or a related field
Experience: 5 combined years of purchasing, material management, and demand planning experience preferred
SAP experience desirable
In-depth knowledge of Supply Chain processes and best practices
Strong communication, negotiating, and presentation skills
Learn about the and why it's a great place to grow your career!
Here are some highlighted perks you should ask us about:
Free daily lunch and drinks on-site
Paid holidays and flexible paid time away
Employee/Friends/Family Discounts
Onsite health clinic, gym, gaming tables
Medical/dental/vision/life coverage & 24/7 Medical Hotline
401(k) Employer Match
Employee Resource Groups
WORKING CONDITIONS:
This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets, and fax machines.
SAFETY:
Vivint enforces a safety culture whereby all employees have the responsibility for continuously developing and maintaining a safe working environment. Each new employee is responsible for completing all training requirements. Additionally, the employee must accept they have responsibility for maintaining the safety of themselves, their co-workers, and the public. Employees must adhere to all written and verbal instructions, promptly report and correct all hazards or unsafe conditions, question non-standard operations or unmitigated hazards, and provide feedback to management on all safety issues.If you are an active Vivint employee, please apply through Workday by searching "Find Jobs".
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