Senior Supply Planning Specialist
Machine translation — original language: Russian.Show original
Responsibilities:
- Coordinate the full order cycle from foreign suppliers and contract manufacturers: from requirement confirmation to warehouse receipt.
- Calculate and update replenishment parameters taking into account long lead times, customs procedures, MOQ, and partners' production cycles.
- Develop optimal ordering strategies to balance service levels and inventory.
- Interact with the procurement department regarding contract terms, with logistics regarding routes and customs clearance, and with production regarding launch schedules.
- Coordinate production plans, specifications, timelines, and quality with contract manufacturers, acting as a single point of contact for operational issues.
- Ensure order status transparency for internal teams through regular reporting updates and communication.
- Identify bottlenecks in import and contract manufacturing processes, propose and implement improvements (cycle reduction, reduction of manual entry, data standardization).
- Develop and maintain analytical tools (primarily Excel) to monitor goods in transit, delay risks, and supplier efficiency.
- Conduct plan-vs-actual analysis of deliveries: identify causes of deviations, prepare recommendations to minimize risks.
- Generate regular reporting on order status, transit inventory, forecast accuracy, and replenishment efficiency.
- Participate in assessing the reliability of suppliers and contract partners based on data regarding delivery timelines, quality, and completeness of supplies.
Requirements:
- 3+ years of experience in supply planning or inventory management (Senior Specialist or Lead Analyst level).
- Proven experience working with foreign suppliers and contract manufacturers.
- Understanding of inventory management: knowledge of methodologies for calculating and maintaining safety stock, ability to balance service levels and turnover.
- Ability to calculate and update order parameters taking into account Lead Time, MOQ, production cycles, and customs clearance timelines.
- Skills in plan-vs-actual delivery analysis and providing business recommendations based on stock analysis results (managing excess, non-moving stock, stock-out risks).
- Process optimization skills: identifying bottlenecks, data standardization, and reduction of manual labor.
- Ability to build transparent cross-functional communication with procurement, logistics, and production departments.
- Advanced Excel skills.
- English language at Upper-Intermediate (B2) level or higher.
Conditions:
- The opportunity to see your real contribution to business development - every employee, regardless of position, sees the result of their work.
- A wide area of responsibility and the company's openness to new ideas.
- A stable business with an ethical mission - we inspire people to expand their diet with plant-based nutrition for their well-being and the health of the planet.
- Official employment in accordance with the Labor Code of the Russian Federation, full social package, paid sick leave and vacations.
- Timely salary payments twice a month.
- Hybrid work schedule (3 days in the office, 2 days remotely).
- Base salary + annual bonus based on personal performance results.
- Best Benefits.
- Meal compensation.
- Corporate mobile connection and laptop.
- Voluntary Health Insurance (VHI) for the employee and two family members.
- Life and health insurance from the first working day, covering both work and home.
- Pension insurance program (additional company contributions to the employee's account).
- Free distribution of Company products.
- Participation in corporate events.
#office_employees
Requirements
Not specified; Experience: 0 years