Supply Planner

About Us

Shark Ninja is a global product design and technology company, with a diversified portfolio of 5‑star rated lifestyle solutions that positively impact people’s lives in homes around the world. Powered by two trusted, global brands, Shark and Ninja, the company has a proven track record of bringing disruptive innovation to market. With headquarters in Needham, Massachusetts and more than 3 600 associates, Shark Ninja’s products are sold at key retailers, online and offline, and through distributors around the world.

The Supply Planner executes global inventory planning and fulfillment strategies for one or more product categories. The objective of this role is to maximize service levels in all markets, maintain healthy inventory levels, pivot in response to fluctuations in orders and forecasts, and represent the supply chain as a steward of inventory and cost.

• Creation and updating of global inventory plans across specific categories, balancing supply‑chain constraints, demand priorities, overall inventory levels, and associating service impacts.
• Manage priorities throughout the day, and ensure the quality and timely completion of work and assigned tasks.
• Collaboration with demand planning, production, logistics, sales, marketing, and product development on a daily basis, acting as an orchestrator to ensure the best outcomes for Shark Ninja.
• Purchase Order Management aligned with the inventory plan, while monitoring and adjusting inventory flow for changes in demand, supply‑chain constraints, or alternative supply options such as reworks, substitutions, or transfers.
• Participate in portfolio reviews as a steward of the supply chain, challenging SKU proliferation, and ensuring life cycles transition and launch dates, as well as ABC classifications are updated.
• Participate in demand and forecast reviews, ensuring assumptions are captured, demand priorities are clear, and forecasts are clearly understood and aligned; incorporate forecasts into global inventory plans.
• Participate in supply reviews, ensuring global constraints and opportunities are identified, and feasible options are developed to overcome any constraints or capture opportunities ready to decide and action.
• Collaborate with the manager on issue resolution, aligning on a course of action and orchestrating across the team of supply planners.
• Monitor service levels and inventory levels, particularly in markets with excess or obsolete inventory, and collaborate with sales and demand planning to develop corrective actions.
• Identify opportunities for process improvement, develop creative solutions, and lead improvement initiatives with key cross‑functional team members to improve KPIs and utilization of bandwidth.

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain concentration highly desired, or relevant experience.
• Minimum 1 year of Supply Chain Planning experience.
• Supply Chain Certifications (CPIM, CSCP, etc.) considered a definite asset.
• Broad knowledge of supply‑chain process fundamentals and metrics, including demand planning, inventory planning, manufacturing, logistics and distribution.
• Comfortable working in a multi‑cultural, multi‑lingual environment, and excited to collaborate with colleagues across the globe.
• Strong analytical skillset, identifying patterns, outliers and drivers of these outliers.
• Takes pride in quality of work, comfortable operating in detail while ensuring consistency across assumption levels.
• Flexible to manage time across pivots in task prioritization for self and the team, and communicate for impact the necessary support to navigate through issues and challenges.
• Desire and capacity to learn new systems, processes, and guide others on the learning journey.
• Expertise in handling datasets within Microsoft Excel, and comfortable learning new planning and IT systems.
• Strong communication skills, capable of communicating key messages for an audience and associating asks through both oral and written mediums.
• Self‑starter who thrives in ambiguity, demonstrates curiosity, and approaches work through a growth mindset.
• Bias for action and excited to use voice in meetings to cut through…