Quench USA, Inc. offers bottle-free filtered water solutions for healthy and environmentally conscious consumers outside the home, through direct sales and independent dealers across North America. Our bottle-free water coolers, ice machines, sparkling water dispensers and coffee brewers, purify the existing water supply to provide reliable and convenient filtered water to a broad mix of businesses, including government, education, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, hospitality, and other large commercial customers, including more than half of the Fortune 500. Quench has grown from a small regional company to a national and international leader that had a successful NYSE public offering in 2016 and is now a strategic company owned by private equity backed Culligan. The Company has a sustainable mission and value proposition and is the leading consolidator in a fast-growing market. Headquartered in King of Prussia, PA, Quench has sales and service operations across North America to serve our 60,000+ customers, and a network of over 250 independent dealers selling products under the brand names Pure Water Technology, Wellsys and Bluline. Quench is a Culligan Company.
Values: Be Quenchy
\KWENCH - ee\; adjective
- Going "above and beyond" for one's customers, colleagues and company.
- Demonstrating positivity, dependability, honesty and collaboration.
- Balancing life and work, and having fun doing it.
The Position
Quench is currently seeking a Supply Chain Planning manager who will responsible for demand, supply, and inventory planning. This will be done in close collaboration with key stakeholders in Sales, Service, Supply Chain and Finance.
This person will play a critical role in analyzing the Supply Chain and developing and executing our demand plan and supply plan to create operating leverage across the business. This person also is responsible for development and maintenance of the analytical tools that allow us to optimize the logistics of product movement and storage. The Manager will also be involved in reporting, budgeting, variance investigation, and other ad hoc analyses.
Essential Functions
Key areas of responsibility include:
- Demand planning
- Demand Aggregation of common items across all corporate products.
- Forecast Modeling - applying the correct and appropriate models to the various items and sales channels.
- Work directly with sales to obtain forecasts
- Improve Quench DRP modeling tool to address current business needs
- Supply planning and execution
- Inventory Management - Ensure supplier shipments align with inventory turns goals.
- Supplier Capacity Management - Insure short-term and long-term sustainability of suppliers through growth and downturns in demand.
- Supplier production prioritization as necessary
- Product (PLM) transition management of inventory at suppliers.
- Provide buyer support and analysis of re-directing orders as required.
- Focus on improving turns and OTIF through balancing of demand and supplier MOQ's.
- Support and actively engage in initiatives to promote better inventory optimization, such as Supplier portals and VMI initiatives
- Freight optimization
- Reporting and analysis
- Improving weekly and monthly statistical reports and analyses
- Inventory, On Time delivery, other critical KPI's
- Product retirement strategies
- Work in concert with product management, sales, supply chain to optimize End of Life programs
- Budgeting
- Inventory, rental capex, freight on yearly basis with quarterly updates to forecast
Qualifications
- Three or more years' experience as a demand and/or supply planner.
- Strong experience with utilization of DRP/MRP systems.
- Prove experience developing custom replenishment and forecast models.
- Proven expertise with Excel.
- Bachelor's degree (Math, science, engineering or technically related field preferred)
- CPIM preferred
- Strong written and verbal communication skills .
Quench offers competitive salary and benefits, and incentive awards. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Quench provides equal opportunity in all of our employment practices to all qualified employees and applicants without regard to sex, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, marital or family status, pregnancy, military status, veteran status, genetic information or any other category protected by federal, state and local laws. This policy applies to all aspects of the employment relationship, including recruitment, hiring, compensation, promotion, transfer, disciplinary action, layoff, return from layoff, benefits, training, social and recreational programs. All such employment decisions will be made without unlawfully discriminating on any prohibited basis.