Demand Planner - Consideration

About Rivian

Rivianis on a mission to keep the world adventurous forever. This goes for the emissions-free Electric Adventure Vehicles we build, and the curious, courageous souls we seek to attract.

As a company, we constantly challenge what’s possible, never simply accepting what has always been done. We reframe old problems, seek new solutions and operate comfortably in areas that are unknown. Our backgrounds are diverse, but our team shares a love of the outdoors and a desire to protect it for future generations.

As a Demand Planner, Service Parts, you will be responsible for developing and managing part level forecasts for your commodities to support driving optimal inventory levels at the Rivian Distribution Centers while meeting customer and partner needs. You will have ownership of your specific forecast refresh, manage master data, analyze consumption data and work across teams to develop your overall demand plan.

The Demand Planner, Service Parts will demand forecast in collaboration with:
Material Planning, Service Engineering, Reliability, NPI, and other business partners. In this role, the Demand Planner, Service Parts will report to the Manager, Demand Planning.

Please note, this is a proactive job posting, which allows us to build a pipeline of qualified candidates who we can consider for future openings. You will be contacted if a position matching your qualifications becomes available.

• Develop and execute the overall global demand forecast for your parts to enable Service and overall company objectives

• Collaborate with sales, supply chain, global distribution centers, engineering, and other partners to understand demand forecast drivers

• Drive key KPI improvement activities (reducing forecast error and bias), improving customer service, reducing excess/obsolete inventory, to enable predictive performance and financial planning

• Review historical consumption data, trends, prepare forecast data, develop statistical forecast models and evaluate forecast results to increase accuracy by removing bias

• Monitor performance vs the forecast throughout the month identifying key shifts. Participate in monthly demand planning performance reviews to prevent excess/obsolete materials

• Maintain and leverage forecast and consumption analytics to drive collaborative inventory and risk reviews with partners to meet customer service improvements on your parts

• Seek out new innovations and present new strategies to continuously improve your forecasts and the overall demand planning process

• 1-2 years of experience in in demand planning/supply planning

• Bachelor's degree in related discipline

• A resilient collaborator, with willingness to drive change

• Analytical skills with a foundational understanding of demand planning modeling, and overall supply chain operational process that may impact your demand planning model inputs

• Experience forecasting within an ERP (SAP preferred)

• Proven data analysis experience with the ability to provide quick turn analysis using advanced Excel

• Process design experience, with proven ability to understand, document, and transform complex processes

• Ability to communicate using telephone, zoom, and/or email

• Ability to sit/stand for 8-12 hours per day

• Ability to view, read, and interpret documents

• Ability to perform all duties in an office environment that may contain ambient noise and temperature fluctuations

The salary range for this role is $63,300 to $83,840 Michigan based applicants.

The salary range for this role is $69,300 to $91,790 Non Bay-Area California based applicants.

This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee’s position within the…