Job Summary:

Effectively manage sales and operations planning for assigned product and account groups. This entry level position is a great opportunity for recent graduates.

Primary Duties:

- - Ensure inventory requirements for specific product groups are met.
- Review of planning reports and execute replenishment to fill account requirements.
- Collaborate with cross functional teams including sales, program managers, customer service, purchasing and production to ensure inventory targets are met.
- Proactively analyze account ordering trends and create inventory plans to support requirements.
- Create, propose, and maintain contractual inventory minimum and maximum for specific account groups.
- Coordinate monthly portfolio review with Program Managers to review product availability and demand/supply changes.
- Create and distribute PO approval requests for specific account groups.
- Reduce exposure to excess and obsolete inventory by observing strict planning guidelines.
- Support item setup, BOMs and related cost sheets in ERP systems per new setup requests.
- Support value add creation, entry, and issue all value add per planning and ERP requirements for stock and fulfill existing orders.
- Proactively alert production and purchasing team on possible demand and inventory issues.




- Highlight potential planning roadblocks and engage cross functional teams for possible solutions.
- Seek and share best practices with others in the company.
- Build and develop relationships with peers and others to exchange feedback on product/service issues, identify and/or solve problems, assess needs, and achieve business results.
- Coordinate with co-workers to solve internal and external customer problems.
- Promote setting measurable goals of improvement

Job Qualifications:

- - Bachelor’s Degree, Business, Finance or Manufacturing Planning.
- Proficiency: Microsoft Office, including Outlook, Advanced Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
- Knowledge about ERP systems is considered an asset.
- Strong knowledge of inventory control practices, processes, distribution, and supply chain management.
- Understanding of technical aspects of warehouse operations
- Strong coordination, organizational and time management skills
- Extremely strong analytical and statistical skills.
- Strong mathematical aptitude
- Solid analytical skills to interpret data.
- Ability to evaluate, prioritize and problem solve a variety of tasks to ensure their timely and accurate completion.
- Detail oriented, with a high level of accuracy.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills

This role is for an existing vacancy

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📌 PLANNING - Inventory Planner (Mississauga)
🏢 Colonial Group
📍 Mississauga