Alliance Inventory Planner

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Description:

Be part of a growing, successful company in an exciting and challenging field. Border States is 100% employee-owned, which means you’re empowered to make decisions, find solutions and receive rewards for your hard work.

This position will be located in: Fargo, ND

Final date to receive applications:
September 14, 2026

Please note that the position may be filled before or after the listed Final date to receive applications. Applications will only be accepted while the posting remains active.

Pay Range:

* Individual compensation is determined based on several factors, including job-related skills and qualifications, education, relevant experience, work location, internal equity considerations, and the overall responsibilities of the position.

The Alliance Inventory Planner is responsible for adherence to the inventory management expectations of a set of key long-term contract “alliance” customers, including inventory turns and on-time delivery. Builds and maintains highly collaborative relationships with key alliance customer contacts and the sales teams that support them. Creates and communicates high-level demand plans for key product families based on analysis of available data and close coordination with customers.

Develops a deep understanding of customer operations and plans to provide a tailored customer experience and optimize the balance of inventory service and performance.

Essential Functions

• Coordinates the development of alliance customer plans for product demand, stocking/replenishment status, and inventory stocking parameters such as reorder point, lead time, and order quantity.
• Integrates customer demand forecast information into Bthe forecasting process and technical tools.
• Engages alliance customers in joint problem solving for supply chain, demand planning, or material requirements planning challenges.
• Develops and executes inventory management plans to support alliance customer business expansion, capital projects, and new customer implementations.
• Coordinates product needs throughout the life cycle of large customer projects.
• Collaborates and shares information with other teams that service alliance customer relationships, such as purchasing, pricing, sourcing, project management, and marketing.
• Ensures alliance inventory business and data management processes align with dynamic customer needs and expectations which may include refinement of existing tools and processes or facilitating the design of a new tool and process.
• Monitors alliance contract KPIs, such as on-time delivery and inventory turns to identify trends and ensure that expectations are met or exceeded.
• Presents status and progress on alliance inventory KPIs, capital projects, initiatives to branch leadership, key customer contacts, and executives.
• Facilitates maintenance of alliance customer data, such as consigned inventory, customer part numbers, product standards changes and material transitions.
• Ensures new customer implementations, development of system strategies, and ongoing maintenance and improvement are in accordance with customer contracts and meet stated objectives.

Non-essential Functions

• Assists utility purchasing team in storm response efforts for relevant alliance customer accounts.
• Coordinates and leads frequent inventory meetings with customers, branch leadership, account managers, demand planners, and buyers.
• Participates in vendor and product training.
• Performs other duties as assigned by supervisor or designate.

• 4-year business or technical degree or equivalent in work experience.
• 2+ years of experience in an inventory management, supply chain or demand/supply…