Solution Analyst - Supply Chain Planning

Job Summary

Vertiv is transforming and digitizing supply chain capabilities by re-engineering business processes and implementing advanced technologies/systems that powers world‑class operations, customer experiences, and AI‑driven decision-making. 

We are seeking a Senior Solution Analyst – Supply Chain Planning  for our Digital Supply Solutions group. This leader acts as a Product manager and is responsible for end-to-end planning systems capabilities from strategy, business stakeholder management, portfolio prioritization and delivery/maintenance of planning capabilities to support Vertiv’s business units. The position provides subject matter expertise in various domains of supply chain planning (demand, supply, manufacturing etc.) a hands-on systems knowledge and experience/exposure to AI in supply chain opportunities. 

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for implementation of Advanced Planning capabilities and owns specific domain area : Demand/S&OP or Supply/Inventory/Manufacturing Planning or Spares Parts Planning solutions


• Design robust touch-less digital planning solutions for scale, availability and growth


• Owns and drives deliverables through SDLC


• Manges portfolio of digital supply chain programs in the specific domain area of ownership 


• Works across teams and external partners to drive major transformation program in specific domain area


• Scope, plan, and manage projects, quality of software development, risks, schedules, communication plans, and deliverables.


• Responsible for building a global template of domain specific capabilities and rollouts across 33+ and growing plants around the world


• Build supply chain planning capabilities as a Product 


• Serves as primary IT contact to business stakeholders for domain specific ownership (Demand/S&OP/Supply/Mfg/Spares)


• Brings a DevOps mindset and helps expand it into a CoE 


• Responsible for standardizing the planning global template and baselining with industry and tool standards 


• Owns and manages relevant KPIs 


• Revolutionize end-to-end supply chain models


• Serve as a senior technical mentor to data engineers, solution architects, and product teams


• Introduce best practices, emerging patterns, and modern architectural approaches


• Influence stakeholders across business and technology with strong communication, storytelling, and technical depth

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, Math, Statistics, or related field. MBA or master’s preferred but not required. 


• 4+ years of progressive experience in implementing complex supply chain solutions, strong knowledge of operational processes, systems, and tools implementation experience in leading/fast growth companies 


• Deep domain expertise in supply chain planning across two or more areas : demand forecasting, S&OP,  multi-level integrated supply planning, distribution, inventory optimization, manufacturing planning and scheduling, ATP/CTP


• Multiple E2E implementations of advanced planning technologies implementing Kinaxis Rapidresponse/Maestro


• Extensive, hands-on experience in supply chain complex solution design including authoring, data integrations, scenario planning and best practices


• Proven experience translating business processes into scalable digital solutions


• Strong understanding of end-to-end supply chain processes and supply chain strategies (ETO/CTO, MEIO, VMI etc)


• Preferred
  
  
  
  • Kinaxis Maestro authoring and solution consultant certifications
  
  
  • Experience enabling AI/ML for supply chain use cases
  
  
  • Prior experience with global manufacturing environments