Supply Planner

Spin Master is a leading global children's entertainment company, creating exceptional play experiences through it’s three creative centres: Toys, Entertainment and Digital Games. With distribution in over 100 countries, Spin Master is best known for award-winning brands PAW Patrol®, Bakugan®, Kinetic Sand®, Air Hogs®, Hatchimals®, Rubik’s Cube® and GUND®, and is the global toy licensee for other popular properties.

What will you work on?
The Supply Planner position is a highly visible Supply chain role that is responsible for overseeing and optimising the inventory planning and procurement cost across the supply chain network. They have the ability to balance the sometimes conflicting goals of inventory targets, target customer service levels, forecast accuracy, and safety stock requirements for the allocated portfolio of SKU’s for which he or she is assigned.

How will you create impact?

• Responsible for maintaining inventories, developing the supply plan to reduce out of stocks across the supply chain network to increase service levels while minimizing purchasing costs and capital employed.
• Proactively utilize MRP’s and other tools to review inventory projections supply-demand summaries to prevent potential shortages or excessive inventory and demurrage.
• Implement and maintain inventory and material management strategies by regular review and optimization of inventory parameters and levels (e.g. reorder pt, safety stock, ABC categorization, forecast bias, etc.)
• Ability to assess purchasing options, analyze cost reduction opportunities to optimize total spend by optimizing loads via combining various products onto a single order, pre-ordering as needed to reduce costs, controlling inventory levels to avoid additional overflow costs, adjusting hub-spoke networks as needed to reduce costs, etc.
• Conduct root cause analysis for supply chain issues/variances and define corrective action plans to avoid re-occurrence. Review out of stock situations or shortage of supply issues and recommend mitigations. Utilize exception reports to identify and correct potential out of stock issues
• Conduct regular business and performance reviews with Demand Planning, Sales and Marketing, participation in SOP processes.
• Identify and manage potential inventory obsolescence to minimize aged inventory and eventual write-offs
• Check and monitor rough cut capacity plan (RCCP) and implement mitigative actions in case risks of out of stock
• Track and reconcile weekly/monthly metrics versus established targets
• Other ad-hoc duties assigned by Manager

How will you fit into the team?
The Supply Planner reports to the Senior Manager Supply Planning EU.

What are your skills and experience?

Key Competences:

• Customer focus: Every action is shaped by a commitment to meeting and exceeding customer expectations. All activities and decisions should be built around the customer
• Communication: Demonstrate ability to convey messages clearly, effectively and confidently at all levels of the organisation. Stays in constant contact with other departments and keeps them informed of any problems
• Accountability: Takes full responsibility for own actions and can be counted on to do what he/she says will be done. Follows up personally and monitors progress to make sure things are on track
• Resourceful and Self-Directed: Demonstrate a clear understanding of task and know where to go for answers. Work independently and self-manage
• Problem Solving and Solutions Development: Look for creative, cost-effective solutions to problems and develop processes to tackle similar problems in the future. Good balance of being able to analyse and determine the best plan of action, while reacting quickly.
• Stress Tolerance: Ability to work at a fast-pace and possesses strong multi-tasking skills. Stays calm under pressure with the willingness and flexibility to deal with change.
• Planning and Organising: Maintain an organised, structured and efficient environment. Prioritise, multitask and plan accordingly; deliver reports and analysis on time, coming up with contingency plans when necessary.

Required Qualifications Experience:

• Supply Chain equivalent experience in distribution or related business environment.
• Expertise with various ERP systems within a production environment, especially SAP R3
• Expert level of working knowledge of Excel
• Data manipulation - including graphs, Pivot tables, Vlookups, etc.
• Formulas / Calculation capability - development of analytical models in Excel etc.
• Very strong analytical skills, detailed oriented
• Ability to deal with complexity and manage ambiguity
• Collaborative skills in resolving long and short positions in inventory
• Drive for process improvement ability to perform root cause analysis
• Fluency in English is a must

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What you can expect from us:

Our mission is to Make Life More Fun with a vision to push the boundaries of innovation, creativity, and fun.

• Growth and Career Opportunities
• Flexible Work Hours
• Innovation, Collaboration and Fun
• Comprehensive Benefits
• Other fun Perks!

What’s it like to work here?

Spin Master is a fast-paced, hands-on organization that provides many great opportunities for impactful decision-making; though our challenging start-up atmosphere isn’t for everyone, we have a proven record of opportunities for future advancement and internal transfers for our passionate and results driven team.

Everyone is welcome in our sandbox and we are committed to an accessible and inclusive hiring process that provides reasonable accommodation to all applicants.

Spin Master strives to create an accessible and inclusive application and selection process and is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to job applicants who may require provisions to participate in the recruitment, selection and/or assessment processes. Should you require an accommodation, please contact our Talent Acquisition team, by email at and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs.

We do appreciate all interest; however only those selected for interview will be contacted.