Supply Chain Planner & Analyst

Crayola has inspired children to express their creativity since 1903. Crayolians take pride in fulfilling our mission of helping parents and educators raise creatively alive children around the world. Join our team and be part of an iconic brand that develops quality art products and experiences that are loved by families and preferred by teachers. Our company culture is mission focused, and encourages fun, collaboration, transparency, and helping others. Crayola believes our workforce benefits from a broad spectrum of diverse ideas and perspectives which enables us to understand our consumers better. Supply Chain Planner & Analyst, Hybrid, Easton, PA GENERAL SUMMARY: Manages the planning aspects of finished, semi, and raw material product planning with internal manufacturing and/or external suppliers including long term capacity planning. Manages planning exceptions daily and interacts with manufacturing and/or external suppliers to ensure execution of customer requirements, inventory and total cost goals for Global Supply and customer base. Ensures the data accuracy of supply chain system (SAP) and other PSI tools. The role will proactively work with cross functional teams to execute commercialization inclusive of inventory planning, tracking, reporting and driving timely execution of product and program priorities as required to delivery annual sales plan. This includes all analytic activities related to account coordination, standard reporting, product life cycles, capacity planning, and end-to-end ad hoc projects per the direction of the Supply Chain leadership team. Is responsible for ensuring the effectiveness of the Supply Chain process in achieving overall customer service, inventory, and cost objectives. Individual will work with U.S. and International team members in Demand Planning, Platform Marketing, Logistics, Customer Service, Manufacturing, Sales, E-Commerce, and Ops-Finance on product development and short/long term planning outlooks. PRINCIPAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES: Manages the global capacity planning function to maximize asset utilization and develops contingency plans as needed, both internal and external. Develops and executes purchasing and production plans, including purchase orders, production orders, supplier forecasts, and pre-build strategies, to achieve targeted global customer service levels while optimizing inventory, lead times, and total cost objectives for domestic and outsourced products. Controls movement of materials, semi-finished and finished goods for internal and external manufacturing throughout the Crayola Global distribution network. Leads end-to-end product lifecycle management by partnering with cross-functional teams to execute successful new product introductions, ensuring on-time launches through effective supply chain planning, while managing component phase-ins, obsolescence, and engineering changes to optimize inventory and minimize OSMI risk. Collaborate with cross-functional departments and outside suppliers to improve minimum order quantities, lead times and flexibility to benefit the Global Crayola supply and customer base. Support continuous improvement and Six Sigma/Lean projects Leads weekly or periodic meetings with internal and external stakeholders to ensure production requirements are communicated and understood. Collaborate with Demand Planning and Demand Control to understand forecasted needs. Maintain constant coordination with Customer service to highlight issues with supply and order configurations. Reconciles receipt quantity and invoice discrepancies with Crayola & Hallmark's Account Payable System. Manages the end-to-end product lifecycle by ensuring inventory synchronization across SAP and third-party systems, coordinating new products, discontinuations, and product changes, leading OSMI and excess inventory reduction initiatives with Finance, and partnering with Marketing and Sales to ensure product availability for launches and promotions while mini…

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