Supply Planner 3

Overview

As a Supply Planner III, you will play a critical role in optimizing supply chain operations to ensure the availability of materials and products while minimizing costs and risks. You will be responsible for managing supply planning processes, balancing supply and demand, analyzing supply constraints, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive operational excellence.

This position requires advanced planning skills, a strong understanding of supply chain principles, and the ability to work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Develop, execute, and maintain medium- to long-range supply plans based on demand forecasts, capacity constraints, and inventory strategies.
• Collaborate with manufacturing, procurement, demand planning, and logistics teams to ensure supply chain alignment.
• Identify and mitigate potential supply risks and constraints while ensuring service level targets are met.
• Analyze historical trends, forecast data, and market insights to optimize planning parameters and replenishment strategies.
• Monitor supply chain KPIs such as OTIF, inventory turns, fill rates, backorders, and forecast accuracy.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Operations, or related field; APICS/CSCP certification a plus.
• Minimum 5–7 years of experience in supply planning, production planning, or inventory management in a manufacturing environment.
• Strong knowledge of supply chain principles, forecasting, MRP/ERP systems, and planning tools.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel; experience with planning software (e.g., SAP, Kinaxis, Oracle, NetSuite).
• Excellent analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.

Company Description

Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT), the world's leading specialty measurement company, has pioneered chromatography, mass spectrometry and thermal analysis innovations serving the life, materials, and food sciences for over 60 years. With approximately 8,000 employees worldwide, Waters operates directly in 35 countries, including 15 manufacturing facilities, with products available in more than 100 countries. Our team focuses on creating business advantages for laboratory-dependent organizations to enable significant advancement in healthcare delivery, environmental management, food safety, and water quality.   

Working at Waters enables our employees to unlock the potential of their careers. Our global team is driven by purpose. We strive to be better, learn and improve every day in everything we do. We’re the problem solvers and innovators that aren’t afraid to take risks to transform the world of human health and well-being. We’re all in it together delivering benefit as one to provide the insights needed today in order to solve the challenges of tomorrow. 

Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It is our responsibility to actively implement programs and practices to drive inclusive behavior and increase diversity across the organization. We are united by diversity and thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products, our customers and our community. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or protected Veteran status.