Job Description:
As a Supply Chain Planner, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the smooth and efficient flow of materials and products through our supply chain. You will be responsible for planning and coordinating the production processes to meet customer demands while optimizing inventory levels and minimizing costs. Your analytical skills and strategic thinking will be key in driving continuous improvement and achieving operational excellence.
What Will You Do?
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Define, maintain, and optimize supply planning and inventory management parameters, including ramp-up and ramp-down strategies, to achieve targeted service levels while minimizing excess inventory and expedited freight costs.
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Ensure the accuracy, quality, and consistency of critical master data, including lead times, order quantities, safety stock levels, and stocking policies.
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Manage Material Requirements Planning (MRP) processes to balance supply and demand for raw materials, components, subassemblies, and finished goods.
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Partner with suppliers to meet customer requirements, improve delivery performance, and drive continuous improvement through root cause analysis, 8D corrective actions, and Kaizen initiatives.
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Lead planning and execution activities for large-scale projects, ensuring material readiness, inventory availability, and successful on-time delivery.
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Analyze inventory, procurement, and planning KPIs using SAP to identify performance gaps, drive process improvements, and enhance supply chain effectiveness.
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Ensure material availability to support production schedules, customer demand, and business objectives.
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Proactively identify, prioritize, and resolve material shortages through exception management, supplier escalation, and recovery planning to minimize operational and customer impacts.
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Collaborate closely with production planners, procurement teams, logistics providers, and warehouse operations to mitigate supply risks and support daily operational performance.
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Drive inventory optimization initiatives by balancing service level requirements with effective management of excess, slow-moving, and obsolete inventory.
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Monitor supply chain performance metrics and implement corrective actions to improve inventory health, supplier reliability, and overall operational efficiency.
What skills and capabilities will make you successful?
- Effective communication, facilitation and strong negotiation skills.
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Critical thinking and problem-solving skills are required.
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Ability to plan and organize effectively and has strong decision-making skills.
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Proficient with using computers and familiar with applications (Q2C, access, excel).
What's in it for you?
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Schneider Electric offers a robust benefits package to support our employees such as flexible work arrangements, paid family leave, 401(k)+ match, and more.
Who will you report to?
Inventory and Material Flow Supervisor
(External) English Qualifications:
What qualifications will make you successful for this role?
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Degree preferred, not required. Equivalent experience and skills can be substituted for education.
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Have experience in a manufacturing setting
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SAP experience is preferred
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2-5 years in Planning and Procurement
Let us learn about you! Apply today.
You must submit an online application to be considered for any position with us. This position will be posted until filled.
Local Benefits (English):
At Schneider, we believe that every employee is a talent who deserves equal opportunities. This means you matter. Every individual needs to feel valued, supported, and treated fairly to do their best work.
Our Total Rewards is our way of saying: “We see you. We value you”. It’s more than just pay and benefits- it’s a meaningful investment in you. It is designed for you to perform, grow, feel safe, and elevate your potential to shine as an impact maker.
For this U.S. based position, the expected pay range is USD 86,400 - USD 129,600 per year. This pay range includes base pay and short-term incentives. The compensation range for this full-time position applies to candidates located within the United States. Our pay ranges are determined by reviewing roles of similar responsibility and level. Within the pay range, individual pay is determined by several factors including performance, knowledge, job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
Schneider Electric is there when it matters most to you
Our Total Rewards package outlines all the benefits and support you’ll enjoy as part of the Schneider Electric team:
Care for Yourself and Your Family. We ensure you feel secure with benefits that help you and your family thrive: medical (with member reward points), dental, vision, and basic life insurance, Benefit Bucks, flexible work arrangements, paid family leaves, well-being programs, 12 holidays per year, and 15 days of paid time off per year.
Invest and Plan Your Future. We help you plan and invest for the future with competitive pay and programs including base salary, incentives, company share ownership, and 401(k) with match.
Grow Your Skills and Career. We support development through performance discussions, global opportunities, the Schneider Career Hub, and learning platforms like Coursera.
Team Up in the Workplace. We encourage collaboration, recognition, sharing your voice, and an inclusive workplace.
Support Your Community. We make a difference through volunteer leave, programs with the Schneider Electric Foundation, youth education initiatives, and military leave benefits.
(External) English Company Boiler Plate:
Looking to make an IMPACT with your career?
When you are thinking about joining a new team, culture matters. At Schneider Electric, our values and behaviors are the foundation for creating a great culture to support business success. We believe that our IMPACT values – Inclusion, Mastery, Purpose, Action, Curiosity, Teamwork – starts with us.
IMPACT is also your invitation to join Schneider Electric where you can contribute to turning sustainability ambition into actions, no matter what role you play. It is a call to connect your career with the ambition of achieving a more resilient, efficient, and sustainable world.
We are looking for IMPACT Makers; exceptional people who turn sustainability ambitions into actions at the intersection of automation, electrification, and digitization. We celebrate IMPACT Makers and believe everyone has the potential to be one.
Become an IMPACT Maker with Schneider Electric – apply today!
€40 billion global revenue
+9% organic growth
150 000+ employees in 100+ countries
You must submit an online application to be considered for any position with us. This position will be posted until filled.
Schneider Electric aspires to be the most inclusive and caring company in the world, by providing equitable opportunities to everyone, everywhere, and ensuring all employees feel uniquely valued and safe to contribute their best. We mirror the diversity of the communities in which we operate, and ‘inclusion’ is one of our core values. We believe our differences make us stronger as a company and as individuals and we are committed to championing inclusivity in everything we do.
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