Supply Planning Analyst - Inventory & Distribution

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Lincoln Electric is a high-performance industrial machinery and technology leader who helps customers manufacture and maintain vital equipment and infrastructure. Lincoln Electric’s innovative solutions enable higher quality and productivity across a variety of processes including welding, cutting, brazing, machining, process automation, and field repair. The Company leverages proprietary technologies and expertise in materials science, power electronics, automation, and intelligent software to help customers build better and achieve resilience in their operations.

Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Lincoln Electric is the essential ‘Linc’ that keeps the economy running. The Company operates 71 manufacturing and automation facilities across 20 countries and serves customers in over 160 countries. For more information about Lincoln Electric and its products and services, visit the Company’s website at  .

Location:

Euclid - 22801
Employment Status:
Salary Full-Time
Function:
Distribution/Logistics
Pay Range:
Min: $69,017.00 - Mid: $90,000.00
Target Bonus:
10.0%
Req :
30289

We are seeking an analytical and execution-oriented Inventory & Distribution Planner to support the US welding business with primary responsibility for inventory deployment, distribution planning, and network execution across the supply planning organization. This role translates supply availability, demand priorities, inventory policies, service requirements, logistics constraints, and network parameters into executable deployment actions that support customer service, inventory health, cost, revenue protection, and business continuity objectives.

The Inventory & Distribution Planner owns specialized inventory and deployment activities for the assigned scope, including E&O disposition coordination, network rebalancing, STO allocation planning, out-of-area shipment coordination, distribution exception management, and business continuity deployment response. The role works closely with Supply Planners, who own the integrated supply plan across the full planning horizon, and provides deployment, inventory, and network execution inputs that help translate planning decisions into action.

The ideal candidate will bring strong inventory discipline, analytical rigor, system aptitude, urgency, and cross-functional communication skills. Success in this role requires the ability to interpret supply and demand signals, identify inventory and distribution imbalances early, coordinate deployment actions across plants and distribution points, manage exception-driven priorities, and serve as a capable backup to Supply Planners when required.

• Own inventory deployment and distribution planning activities for the assigned scope, including short-term execution priorities, inventory positioning, deployment exceptions, and coordination of actions across plants, warehouses, and distribution points.
• Translate supply availability, customer order priorities, inventory policies, transportation constraints, site capabilities, and network parameters into time-phased deployment and distribution recommendations.
• Coordinate inventory rebalancing activities across the network by identifying excess, shortages, aging inventory, regional imbalances, and service risks, then recommending and executing appropriate deployment actions.
• Own STO allocation planning and coordination, including prioritization logic, allocation recommendations, follow-up with sending and receiving locations, and escalation of constraints that impact service or inventory objectives.
• Lead E&O inventory review and disposition coordination by…