Manager Buyer Planning

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Acuity Inc. (NYSE: AYI) is a market-leading industrial technology company. We use technology to solve problems in spaces, light and more things to come. Through our two business segments, Acuity Brands Lighting (ABL) and Acuity Intelligent Spaces (AIS), we design, manufacture, and bring to market products and services that make a valuable difference in people’s lives.

We achieve growth through the development of innovative new products and services, including lighting, lighting controls, building management solutions, and an audio, video and control platform. We focus on customer outcomes and drive growth and productivity to increase market share and deliver superior returns. We look to aggressively deploy capital to grow the business and to enter attractive new verticals.

Acuity Inc. is based in Atlanta, Georgia, with operations across North America, Europe and Asia. The Company is powered by approximately 13,000 dedicated and talented associates. Visit us at  .

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• This position requires on-site presence in Oceanside, CA, following a hybrid work model.

• The Demand and Buyer Planner Manager is responsible / accountable for the overall demand and supply management process for components as it relates to demand allocation.
• This position owns the allocation process driven by global material constraints and transportation challenges.
• Works closely with Customer Service, Production, Planning, and Warehouse Implementation teams to ensure alignment to meeting customer requirements.
• Experience in a “built to order” environment and high-Mix Low Volume Mfg.
• Monitor and support component inventory to maintain daily/weekly/monthly reports:
  Positive and Negative Balance. Work with internal facility customers (Planning, Production and Warehousing depts.) to ensure all components balance information is correct and handled/corrected in an accurate and efficient manner.
• Work with external facility groups to drive resolution with system discrepancies. Drive continuous improvement, Cost Reduction Projects and enhance the team spirit through the application of Root Cause Analysis Tools.
• Experienced in New Product Introduction (NPI), collaborating closely with Engineering on new product and component development, sourcing and purchasing new parts, managing supplier relationships, and ensuring material readiness to support successful product launches and production schedules

• Requisition & PO Placement, Contract Reviews, Invoice Management, Customer & Internal Audits, Cost Savings Projects, Supplier Maintenance, (Reporting KPI’s, and Project Status).
• Root Cause and Counter Measure (follow up)
• Able to deliver efficient, effective, and flexible solutions to meet production and business requirements. Create KPI’s to manage component demand.
• Able to connect activities, objectives, goals to the functional or business strategy.
• Ability to build a business case/scenario to support supply chain proposals. Understand how to create, read, and understand business reports and analyses.
• Negotiate the best price of components to be used in manufacturing.
• Monitors and supports all supply chain metrics performance, recommends corrective actions and strategies as needed (Demand and Supply Management)
• Tracks and monitors changes to manufacturing and CTB (clear to build) dates for alignment in supplying reasonable delivery dates.
• Communication with key stakeholders on any meaningful change in delivery dates, cause for delay, and estimated recovery date.
• Manage exceptions caused by significant, unexpected events in sales, operations, and procurement.
• Find and report on any significant variances between Reorder Points and customer service demand and business plan.
• Develop analysis and reports related to inventory level projections, recovery plans, performance metrics, etc. as needed.
• Maintain alignment of inventory levels to achieve targeted service levels, and backorder. Finds and pursues inventory reduction opportunities. Directs the periodic review and disposition of slow moving and unproductive inventories (Excess &…