Data Center Infrastructure Supply Planning Analytics Manager

• As a Global Networking Supply Planning Program Manager, you will be responsible for validating demand forecasts and providing timely short-term and long-term demand signals and purchase orders to vendors for the client’s Networking Supply Chain business under the technical infrastructure organization.
• Ensuring timely availability of all required materials and effective inventory management are key aspects of this role.
• In this position, you will collaborate with cross-functional groups to align internal demand requirements with external supply capabilities., * Validate demand forecast to ensure that there are no major changes to demand within the frozen time window.
• Manage procurement in line with allocated budget.
• Validate supply plan and ensure that materials are delivered on time with minimal delivery performance and quality issues.
• Responsible for supply planning metrics for the suppliers managed.
• Identify the root causes for metrics misses and implement short-term and long-term solutions.
• Responsible for effective reporting of the data (forecast, supply plan, metrics etc) to internal and external stakeholders.
• Support the operational excellence objectives by ensuring material availability for internal customer orders.
• Collaborating with the data teams to validate the accuracy of data sources used for supply chain management.

• Minimum 5 years of experience in supply chain.
• Experience in Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing, Operations, or Supply/Demand Planning.
• Strong foundational knowledge in data networking architectures and physical network components.
• Experience with supply / inventory planning, reverse supply chain, labor/deployment planning in large scale data center infrastructure domain (compute, storage or networking) - networking experience preferred.

Skills:

• Data analysis skills (Excel/GSheets, SQL, Slides)
• Supply Chain Management
• Program Management
• Applications experience - MRP systems such as O9, Kinexi

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience