The Supply Planner ensures timely availability of components and goods by managing inventory, developing forecasts, and solving supply chain issues while collaborating cross-functionally.
Launched in 2014 by former philosophy professor David Barnett, PopSockets is a global digital-lifestyle company that sells empowering, fun, and expressive products that improve people’s digital lives. PopSockets has sold close to 300 million of its iconic phone grips in 75 countries and now has an expanding ecosystem of related products, including phone cases, wallets, mounts, batteries, and chargers.
Our mission is to empower enhanced mobile functionality, self-expression, and authentic human connection. We imagine an Eternal Positivity Machine that sparks joy, creativity, and meaningful relationships. We bring this vision to life by upholding the highest standards in materials, packaging, logistics, and design—while ensuring our supply chain and labor practices remain ethical, responsible, and transparent.
In 2021, PopSockets was honored as one of Fast Company’s World's Most Innovative Companies.
The Role:
The Supply Planner will play a pivotal role in ensuring the timely availability components and finished goods essential for our sales processes. This role involves collaborating closely with the Demand Planning team, developing and managing component forecasts, managing and optimizing finished good inventory flow and availability, and implementing process improvements to optimize our supply chain. The ideal candidate will be a proactive problem-solver with a passion for building and refining processes to enhance operational efficiency.
Responsibilities
- Planning & Purchasing: Manage supply plan based on demand plans, and product timelines considering MOQs, safety stock and VMI. Proactively address discrepancies between supply and demand forecasts to prevent production delays or material shortages.
- Inventory Management: Monitor and manage inventory levels of components and finished goods to maintain an optimal balance between supply and demand. Ensure appropriate inventory allocation between fulfillment locations. Implement initiatives to reduce excess inventory, minimize stockouts, and uphold a healthy supply chain.
- Data Analysis & Reporting: Analyze historical data and provide long range production forecasts to identify trends, challenges, and opportunities for improvement. Provide regular reports on key metrics such as inventory levels and turn, safety stock and VMI, and end of life inventory and lifecycle management to inform decision-making. Proactively communicate excess inventory and constraints to key stakeholders.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with the Demand Planning team to align forecasts with customer demand, ensuring that supply plans are accurate and meet demand requirements. Work closely with procurement, production, logistics teams to ensure successful delivery of inventory and address any cross-functional supply chain challenges.
- Problem-Solving & Risk Mitigation: Address supply chain challenges, including material shortages, production delays, and supplier issues. Develop contingency plans and implement corrective actions to ensure uninterrupted supply, proactively managing risks to minimize their impact on production and customer satisfaction.
- Process Improvement & Implementation: Identify opportunities to enhance existing supply planning. Assist with the development, documentation, and implementation of new processes aimed at streamlining workflows, improving accuracy, and reducing lead times globally across components and finished goods.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, or a related field.
- 3-5 years of experience in material/component planning, supply planning, or demand forecasting, ideally in a global manufacturing environment.
- Strong understanding of planning processes, inventory management, and supply chain best practices.
- Advanced Excel skills.
- Proven track record of problem-solving, including identifying supply chain challenges and implementing effective solutions.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work cross-functionally with multiple teams and external suppliers.
- Strong analytical and data-driven mindset, with the ability to use data to drive decision-making and continuous improvement.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple priorities while maintaining attention to detail.
- Experience in the consumer goods or electronics industry, especially with component-based products.
PopSockets is dedicated to the practice of equal opportunity employment. We prohibit unlawful discrimination against applicants and employees on the basis of age, race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, military status, genetic information, color, creed, ancestry, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state or local law. This prohibition includes unlawful harassment based on any of these protected classes. Unlawful harassment includes verbal or physical conduct which has the purpose or effect of interfering with an individual’s work performance, or creating an intimidating, hostile, offensive, unsafe or otherwise non-welcoming work environment. This policy applies to all employees, including managers, supervisors, co-workers; and non-employees such as customers, clients, vendors, consultants, etc.
Top Skills
Data Analysis
Excel
Inventory Management
Supply Chain Management
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