Retail Jr. Consignment Planner

The Jr. Retail Consignment Inventory Planner is accountable for executing & monitoring a select portion of the inventory management processes for each of our retail consignment customers.  The role will work closely with the Retail Consignment Inventory Planners and require a high level of cross functional collaboration. 

Reports to:  Roofing Retail Inventory Optimization Lead

Span of Control:  No Direct Reports

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Inventory Management

• • Develop and align select stocking locations for each retail consignment customer as assigned
    • Regularly monitor and maintain inventory quality management (IQM) targets to meet customer demand while also supporting internal financial metrics for the business (working capital, quarterly sales forecasts, etc.)
    • Review and analyze weekly sales forecasts to ensure customer locations are fully stocked according to their mins/maxes
    • Serve as an effective business partner for key customer changes, such as product assortment adjustments and inventory location changes

Inventory Compliance and Financial Control which includes, but not limited to:

• Invoicing customer for product
• Reconciling discrepancies between Owens Corning’s system, customer’s system, and physical counts
  • Provide monthly reconciliation reports for assigned consignment locations
  • Root causing variances and minimizing adjustments
• Physical count postings and ensuring audit compliance
  • Coordinate with the commercial team to perform a physical inventory count for assigned consignment locations annually, including verifying stocked materials at each location and validating counts in the system at time of audit
  • May be required to work select weekends and evenings when needed for physical audits

Cross Functional Collaboration

• Work internally with material planning team, commercial team, pricing team, warehouse teams, customer service team and the customer’s corporate and distribution center contacts to gain alignment
• Coordinate directly with Material Planning to ensure product is available and collaborate with internal partners to work through material constraints, close supply gaps and achieve best possible outcome for customer
• Adheres to best practices and standard work for the consignment planning process
• Provide backup/flex support as needed for Retail Consignment Inventory Planners

Transportation

• Work to smooth consignment delivery schedules as needed to align with customer’s transportation and location unloading capacity while maintaining inbounds needed to service demand
• Coordinate with customer to schedule delivery appointments at assigned customer locations if required
• Work with customer transportation contacts to ensure shipments are picked up on time, minimizing backlog and issues at our OC production facilities
• Serves as a key contact for transportation exceptions

JOB REQUIREMENTS

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Preferred: BA/BS degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Logistics or Supply Chain, or similarly applicable field
• Three years of experience with a supply chain function

EXPERIENCE:

• Prior work experience and/or APICS certification including:

• Sourcing
• Inventory Management and Production Control
• Logistics

• Previous experience in a material planning role preferred

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:

• Understanding of supply chain principles in the areas of forecasting, sourcing, production and inventory management is required along with the ability to translate these principles into operation
• Advanced computer skills – Excel, Power BI, and SAP
• Analytics and decision making – Skilled problem solving, recognizing issues, problems, or opportunities. Chooses appropriate action by formulating clear decision criteria and evaluates options by considering implications and consequences 
• Communication – Clearly conveys relevant information and ideas with confidence. 
• Planning and organizing – Must be able to balance competing priorities
• Initiating Action – Sense of urgency to handle issues in a timely manner with appropriate follow-up
• Highly collaborative – Must be able to work quickly and effectively with others to solve customer problems