WHY DO WE NEED YOU?

The Senior Supply Chain Planner will be primarily focused on supply chain planning activities supporting our retail business. This position plays a critical role in ensuring product availability, driving replenishment strategies, and managing consigned inventory to meet customer expectations and business objectives. The candidate will serve as a key point of contact between CertainTeed and major retail accounts, aligning internal supply capabilities with customer needs. By leveraging strong cross-functional partnerships with sales, operations, product management, and logistics, this role ensures that our supply chain delivers high service levels while optimizing inventory and performance against customer-specific KPIs. Secondarily, this position will have ownership for supply chain planning activities for multiple product lines that touch both retail and traditional distribution channel customers.

Essential Functions:

• Own the replenishment process for assigned Big Box Retail accounts, ensuring timely product availability.
• Manage inventory levels, both at CertainTeed sites and consigned at customer locations, maintaining optimal stock levels to meet customer service targets while minimizing excess and obsolescence. This includes:
• Collaborate closely with retail partners and internal sales teams to align seasonal builds, resets, new product launches, and inventory strategies.
• Monitor and optimize replenishment cycles using retailer portals, and internal tools to ensure high in-stock rates and service performance.
• Track and report on customer-specific KPIs related to order fill rate, on-time delivery, inventory turns, and in-stock performance.
• Serve as the key point of contact for supply chain-related communications with retail customers, proactively addressing issues and identifying improvement opportunities.
• Partner with production planning and procurement to align supply plans with customer demand signals and inventory targets.
• Collaborate with logistics to ensure smooth transportation and delivery execution, resolving shipment delays or disruptions quickly.
• Contribute to S&OP (Sales & Operations Planning) process by providing insights into customer demand, inventory health, and replenishment performance.
• Represent the Planning function for assigned products and facilities on regular cross-functional conference calls, providing updates on product availability and any other service-related issues.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives by identifying supply chain inefficiencies and recommending enhancements that support customer satisfaction and cost savings.
• Other duties as assigned

WHAT ARE THE REQUIREMENTS?

• Bachelors Degree in Supply Chain Management, Operations Management or related field required.
• APICS CPIM and/or CPSM Certifications Preferred.
• Minimum 5- 7 years of work experience in Production Planning/ Inventory Management, / Retail Supply Chain Support: Required
• Microsoft Office Excel/Outlook/Word/PPT: required.
• Familiarity working in ERP system (SAP strongly preferred)
• Power BI/Power Query, QlikView or other BI reporting tool: Preferred
• Logility/Kinaxis/Blue Yonder or other Digital Supply Chain solution: Preferred

• Own the replenishment process for assigned Big Box Retail accounts, ensuring timely product availability.
• Manage inventory levels, both at CertainTeed sites and consigned at customer locations, maintaining optimal stock levels to meet customer service targets while minimizing excess and obsolescence. This includes:
• Collaborate closely with retail partners and internal sales teams to align seasonal builds, resets, new product launches, and inventory strategies.
• Monitor and optimize replenishment cycles using retailer portals, and internal tools to ensure high in-stock rates and service performance.
• Track and report on customer-specific KPIs related to order fill rate, on-time delivery, inventory turns, and in-stock performance.
• Serve as the key point of contact for supply chain-related communications with retail customers, proactively addressing issues and identifying improvement opportunities.
• Partner with production planning and procurement to align supply plans with customer demand signals and inventory targets.
• Collaborate with logistics to ensure smooth transportation and delivery execution, resolving shipment delays or disruptions quickly.
• Contribute to S&OP (Sales & Operations Planning) process by providing insights into customer demand, inventory health, and replenishment performance.
• Represent the Planning function for assigned products and facilities on regular cross-functional conference calls, providing updates on product availability and any other service-related issues.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives by identifying supply chain inefficiencies and recommending enhancements that support customer satisfaction and cost savings.
• Other duties as assigne