Associate Supply Chain Planner

Job Description

Associate Supply Chain Planner | HAVI

The Tone:
This is an early career opportunity at HAVI, located in Chicago (Hybrid). HAVI is a global, privately owned company dedicated to innovating, optimizing, and managing the supply chains for leading brands. The company offers services in marketing analytics, packaging, supply chain management, and logistics, partnering with businesses to solve challenges from commodity to customer. This role is a chance to begin a career in supply chain, making an impact on the global food service supply chain while engaging in continuous development and improvement.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Type: Full-time
• Location: Hybrid: Chicago, IL
• Pay: $65000 yearly
• Team: Global Supply Chain Planning and Analytics team
• Mission: Manage and monitor daily, weekly, and promotion planning cycles for a product category to ensure system alignment and achievement of program objectives.
• Tech Stack: MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)

What You’ll Actually Do
• Manage: Manage and monitor the daily, weekly, and promotion planning cycles of a product category.
• Collaborate: Develop and maintain strong relationships with internal and external customers.
• Communicate: Participate in regular customer, supplier, and DC-level communication meetings.
• Analyze: Run reports and data-pulls as needed to perform analysis of inventory levels and metrics across the supply chain network.
• Support: Support larger team’s continuous improvement projects.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor Degree in Supply Chain. Early Career.
• Experience: 2 years or less of related work experience, with demonstrated time management skills through coursework and extracurricular activities.
• Skills: Good written and verbal communication, collaborative and teamwork oriented, clear strong desire for continuous development, MS Office experience (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
• Bonus: Knowledge of statistical, optimization, machine learning, or other analytic methodologies.