IPEX is one of the North American leading providers of advanced plastic piping systems. Our mission is to shape a better tomorrow by connecting people with water and energy.

We currently have an exciting opportunity for Supply / Capacity Planner. This role is based in our Oakville office and reports to our Director of Supply Chain Planning.

Do not miss the opportunity to join a broad family of people-centric professionals, thought leaders and rapid thinkers, entrepreneurs in spirit and status quo-fighters!

Job Summary

The Supply / Capacity Planner ensures that the production build plans are optimized to achieve and exceed organization objectives for service to customers and inventory health, for a portfolio of products (with approx. 1500+ SKUs).

The Supply Planner is a focal point for identifying detailed supply risks, highlighting trade-off decisions to key stakeholders, collaborating cross- functionally, and problem solving, to achieve the supply objectives.

Principal Responsibilities :

• Creates detailed supply / capacity plans in the mid to long term horizon for assigned product categories, to achieve customer service and inventory health objectives, in alignment with the rough-cut capacity plan.
• Proactively identifies and communicates potential supply issues impacting the business. Conducts what-if’ analysis for supply scenarios for capacity
• Participate in projects / innovations / M&A and new products capacity planning
• Develops strong relationships with key internal stakeholders including Sales, Customer Service, Manufacturing, other Planning functions, and Production Scheduling to problem solve and align on priorities and trade-off decisions in the case of supply shortages.
• Provides instruction to colleagues for inventory deployment, for balancing of inventory between locations to achieve fill rate and days of inventory objectives.
• Maintains planning master data and addresses non-productive inventory in alignment with Inventory Quality Ratio objectives.
• Drives timely, appropriate actions to minimize the impact of deviations from the Supply Plan.
• Escalates in a timely manner and uses good judgement to intervene as needed to achieve KPIs for fill rates and inventory.
• Creates inventory projection reports for distribution capacity planning and Finance visibility on plan versus forecasts and working capital requirements.
• Creates inventory build strategy
• Works in a safe manner and demonstrates our corporate Values of We Dare, We Care, and We Deliver.

JOB REQUIREMENTS :

Education & Certificates

• University degree with a specialty in Supply Chain, Computers, Data Analytics or Engineering discipline.
• Other useful credentials and training include CPIM and Lean manufacturing.

Technical Skills & Experience

• 5+ year of relevant supply planning experience, preferably within an industrial manufacturing or CPG environment; or relevant transferable skills and experience
• Strong analytical ability, good judgement, and problem-solving skills
• Customer focus, with the drive for results
• Proficient with Microsoft Office, especially Excel; ability to interpret large amounts of data; high attention to detail
• Experience with data visualization and analysis using Power BI desirable
• Ability to work independently, and as a team player
• Adept at working in a fast-moving environment
• Strong communication skills, both written and oral
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Experience with supply planning software desirable (especially SAP-IBP)
• Bilingual (French / English) is an asset

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