Supply Chain Manager jobs in Idaho

Supply Chain Manager

Lovevery is a fast-growing digitally native brand co-founded by successful serial entrepreneurs and based in Boise, Idaho. Our customers are parents, and our mission is to help them feel confident they are giving their children meaningful development experiences in the critical early years of life. Taking a science-based approach, Lovevery products have won awards from Red Dot, Parents’ Choice, and NAPPA. Lovevery was named one of Fast Company's 10 most innovative education companies of 2022.

The Role

Lovevery is looking for a Supply Chain Manager to oversee warehousing, distribution, and freight management. You must have accurate and precise attention to detail in order to manage global supply planning, NetSuite Operations, inventory management, and logistics. This position reports to the Director, Supply Chain.

Attributes required for success in the role

• Analytical Intelligence – Lovevery is one of the fastest growing companies in Idaho. We aim to hire analytically strong people in every role, but it is an especially critical quality for the person managing the end-to-end logistics pipeline. You have a strong ability to model cost per unit, and different “what-if” scenarios related to transportation decisions and trade-offs.
• Communication – This is a connective role with important interfaces across product development, engineering, and sales. Reports that you are responsible for will be depended on by the Lovevery co-founders and external stakeholders from the supply chain to the investor community. You are skilled at structured and complete communication.
• Project Management – Work ethic, responsiveness, and results orientation matter in every role at Lovevery. With everyone driving hard to achieve the company’s goals, it is critical to have strong project planning and structured approaches to big financial decisions like transportation and warehouse costs. You are a natural project manager.

Responsibilities

Inventory Management:

• Manage the financial impacts of receipt flows, factory negotiations, and logistics decisions
• Interface with the finance and accounting team to maximize profitability and cash flow
• Analyze inventory levels based on sales demand and business objectives
• Build and maintain inventory metrics dashboard that show overall “Inventory Health”
• Identify action items, gather resources to address action items and follow up on all inventory-related issues to full resolution
• Identify and present ways of optimizing inventory based on historical sales data
• Monitor and track inventory levels and reconcile inventory variances using all available resources to identify root causes and supply possible solutions
• Manage initiatives to ensure supply chain resources support customer demand

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Management

• Pull and analyze data through saved searches and reports within NetSuite ERP system
• Seek strategies to streamline, automate, and simplify processes, including deployment of new integrations, use of data analytics, and working with NetSuite admins
• Understand functionality of accounting and finance, procurement, warehouse and inventory, order management, integration, automation, business reporting within NetSuite
• Experience in navigating within a Netsuite ERP that uses multiple warehouses

Capacity Planning

• Manage long-term capacity planning for assembled products and sub-components
• Negotiate manufacturing capacity with vendors to achieve healthy receipt flow for the business
• Use clear and efficient communication with domestic and overseas vendors
• Craft an optimized requested production schedule for multiple products and SKUs
• Work with internal partners to create optimal plan and identify tradeoff options in times of capacity, materials, or production issues
• Initiate and lead the development of short and long-term supply plans to balance the demand forecast with cost, efficiency and capacity constraints
• Identify and address potential risks associated with capacity constraints
• Prepare, present, and discuss data with senior leadership relating to cost, lead time, risk, and technical/operational constraints

Demand Planning

• Define product forecasts incorporating key business drivers such as budget, sell through, turn, and target stock levels
• Understand collaboration that is required to create demand plan (e.g., promotions, sales resources, collaborative planning, forecasting, and replenishment, budget, engineering change orders)
• Analyze demand shortfalls and changes in supply to prepare a supply summary and forecast to management
• Oversee the transition plan for product revisions based on launch schedules and supply availability
• Generate monthly supply plans that meet company’s financial objectives
• Coordinate with Marketing and New Product Operations teams to set launch quantities of new product introductions and to ensure smooth product transitions
• Monitor in-transit inventory from Asia to North America to avoid stockouts

Qualifications and attributes:

• 3 or more years’ experience working with NetSuite Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system
• 2 or more years’ experience being key manager / SME of supply and demand planning systems (Blue Ridge preferred, but not required)
• 3 or more years’ experience in supply chain, logistics, or operations management
• Logistics experience with international and domestic shipments
• Skilled at building and maintaining spreadsheets and models
• Deep desire to scale workflow and find opportunities for task automation
• Ability to synthesize data and make business driving recommendations for senior leaders
• Experience with vendor/supplier management and negotiation
• 2 or more years in managing complex projects or initiatives with proven ability to build models and present data summaries
• Willingness to travel to Asia at least twice a year

The Benefits/Perks You’ll Enjoy

• Competitive salary, benefits and stock option package
• 3 weeks PTO in year 1 14 paid holidays
• Generous parental leave
• Any equipment you need to get the job done
• Free/discounted Lovevery products

Lovevery is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that values diversity in all forms. All employment decisions at Lovevery are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, HIV status, marital status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.