Sr. Supply Chain Planner

Fender Musical Instruments Corporation is a world famous brand with offices across the globe. Within Fender Musical Instruments Corporation’s ("FMIC") Supply Chain team, we are focused on delivering operational excellence to the business and our customers by promoting collaboration, building trust, and setting high standards. Our mission is to support and enable the makers who fuel the pursuit of musical expression.

An American icon, Fender was born in Southern California and has built a worldwide influence extending beyond the studio and the stage. A Fender is more than an instrument; it’s a cultural symbol that resonates globally.

We are searching for a Sr. Supply Chain Planner based in Scottsdale, AZ. The Planner will be supporting the demand forecast for the America’s region and global supply planning for all regions. They will be focused on the development and upkeep of accurate short, mid, and long-term forecasts, ensuring alignment of supply with customer demand in accordance with budgeted inventory policies. This role will also build and maintain an agreed upon production plan across all regions and issue OEMs production POs, maintain POs, track POs, and monitor capacity with OEMs across a 12-18 month horizon.

This is a hybrid role based out of Scottsdale, AZ.

Essential Functions: 

• Balancing demand with supply while keeping within inventory targets, using relevant demand planning tools.
• Working with Sales, Product Managers and Marketing to review and agree on demand forecasts, complementing system generated forecasts.
• Monitor trends in customer orders against forecast and identify forecast improvements.
• Manage New Product Introduction and End of Life processes.
• KPI reporting and control analysis on measures such as (but not limited to) Inventory, Forecast Accuracy, Fill Rate, Slow Moving, New Product Introduction and Excess Inventory
• Manage supply issues and develop alternative plans where delivery schedules cannot be improved.
• Manage end-of-life processes in conjunction with Sales, Product Managers and Marketing to ensure that slow moving and excess inventory is minimized.
• Support development and analysis of the rolling 12-18 month inventory forecast.
• Analyze drivers of variances to inventory forecasts and result trends for reporting and incorporation into forecast updates
• Reconcile the varying ERP systems (Hyperion, Logility, SAP, etc.) to identify and resolve gaps
• Convert global demand forecast into an executable supply plan.
• Drive and execute monthly stock status meetings with each region
• Review potential supply shortages and communicate potential risk, potential solutions to mitigate risk, and quantify business impact
• Analyze mid-to-long-term capacity constraints and provide recommendations to ensure demand forecast is covered
• Additional duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• 3+ years supply planning experience or relevant supply chain operations experience
• Bachelor’s Degree required
• Ability to work independently to analyze data; self-starter, curious and desire to get to the root cause.
• Experience with Data Science techniques.
• Working knowledge of Logility (or similar) planning software (ie. SAP, o9); SAP a plus
• Strong PC skills with experience in Microsoft suite
• Commercial and financial awareness and acumen
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills in order to work with cross-functional teams at multiple levels of the organization; ability to influence others and communicate with full transparency to build trust and credibility
• Experience with Amazon and BTC a plus

About Fender Musical Instruments:

Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (FMIC) is one of the world’s leading musical instrument manufacturers, marketers and distributors, whose portfolio of brands includes Fender®, Squier®, Presonus®, Gretsch®, Jackson®, EVH®, Charvel®, Bigsby®, and Groove Tubes®, among others. For more information, visit www.fender.com. FMIC offers a competitive benefits package which includes medical, dental, 401(k), paid time off, and an equipment purchase program to help you get the band back together. Fender Musical Instruments Corporation is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, gender, age, color, religion, disability, veterans’ status, sexual orientation, or any other protected factor.