Supply Planner

Job Title: Supply Planner

Location: Boston or New York

Benefits: Private Health Care, Share options

About Gelato
Gelato has built the world's largest and most global network for on-demand production of customized items e.g. t-shirts, wall art, mugs, books, hoodies, and cards. We support a new wave of e-commerce entrepreneurs and the global shift towards local and more sustainable production

We own no assets - we build the software that connects world-class production facilities all across the world. We have more than 100 production partners in 33 countries. In 72 hours we can reach more than 5 billion people with customized products in a smarter, faster, and greener way.

What You Will Be Doing
We are looking for a data-driven, analytical, and innovative Supply Planner with proven experience in navigating complex supply chains in an ambiguous work environment.

In this role, you will support the throughput of volume through our own warehouses as well local suppliers for our production partners by working closely with cross-functional teams to build an effective supply chain that will lead to delivering best in class customer experiences. As a Supply Planner, you would be an integral part of the team and responsible for availability of stockable items for a region. Using your analytics skills, you will help to continually improve the availability and reduce costs of our supply chain to delight customers.

Key responsibilities of this role include:

• Efficiently manage and take ownership of supply chains for key products (e.g. wall art, phone cases, glassware etc), driving forecasting and demand planning in your region to secure the capacity to meet our growing demand

• Manage ordering, inventory health, item-level forecasting, S&OP, managing unsellable inventory

• Participate in discussions with vendors to resolve supply challenges

• Reviews business metrics such as In Stock, Out of Stock, Inventory Levels (Days of Cover), Forecast Accuracy, Unsellable Inventory Status to identify gap-to-goal

• Drive operational improvements through identification of process improvement initiatives

• Interact with operations teams and drive efficiencies through close collaboration

• Manage inbound shipments: scheduling and delivery lead time

• Achieve and maintain high in stock levels through replenishment programs

• Analyse inventory position and sku performance to determine inventory liability

Who you are

• Bachelor’s Degree in a quantitative discipline

• Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines while managing multiple projects.

• Analytical thinker and team player, a self-starter, willing to take responsibility for problem solving.

• Excellent communication and presentation skills working with multiple peers and with different levels in the organization.

• Curiosity to dig several layers deep into metrics, have an innate desire to understand key drivers and whether they are the correct or best metrics to measure/manage a business or process

• Proven track record of taking ownership and driving results

• Proficiency in Advanced Excel
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2+ years of relevant experience as a supply-chain manager/vendor manager role desired

• Basic knowledge of SQL (or willingness to learn!