Kia ora!
After recently being voted as New Zealand's most attractive employer, Air New Zealand continues to capture the world's attention for its great culture, outstanding customer service and innovations that are truly cutting edge. We have a rare opportunity available for a Supply Planner to join our Supply Chain Planning Team on a 12 month fixed term contract.
This role offers a great opportunity to drive continuous improvement and bring positive change to our systems, processes, and supply chain performance. We are seeking someone who can develop effective material requirements planning mechanisms to ensure efficient demand fulfillment, inventory management, and overall supply chain activities.
The role of Supply Planner includes:
- Optimize inventory levels to maximize service and cost-effectiveness by regularly assessing and adjusting inventory based on changes in demand, ensuring timely delivery to the supply chain and end-users.
- Analyse demand trends and effectively manage short product life cycles, such as wine and domestic snack categories etc, to ensure product continuity and minimize obsolescence.
- Collaborate with the Purchasing team to execute the supply plan and proactively manage supply risk and constraints.
- Maintain accurate information in the MRP system regarding planning parameters.
- Ensure regular communication of demand data to suppliers and communicate insights and trends from demand reviews.
- Participate in new product introduction projects to ensure the availability of supply for successful product launches.
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams and building strong relationships with key stakeholders and ensuring effective communication.
The planning done by this role is pivotal to ensure we always have the right in-flight products onboard to meet our customer expectations.
We are looking for the following skills and experience for our Supply Planner:
- Tertiary or educational qualifications in business, supply chain management, logistics, business administration, or a related field. Certifications from APICS or NZPICS such as CPIM, CSCP AND CLTD will be viewed favourably
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a data-driven decision-making approach
- Excellent Excel skills and proficiency in MS Office tools
- SAP experience is highly desirable
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced and flexible environment with shifting priorities.
In return, we offer unique staff travel benefits, flexible working, life insurance, paid parental leave, health and wellbeing support, plus much more. We also believe in growing our people and offer fantastic career progression opportunities.
If you're eager to make an impact on a large, complex, and iconic business in a challenging role with a leading brand, take flight and apply online now. To be considered for the role, please apply online via our Careers website. Please include a cover letter indicating how your skills and experience match the requirements of the role. Unfortunately, applications cannot be received via email.
Additional Information
At Air New Zealand, we are proudly committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and believe in creating a truly inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves and thrive. Our people are our greatest asset – because while everything else we do in our operation can be replicated by our competitors, it is our people that truly set us apart. We are firm believers in celebrating the differences and diversity of thought our people bring to their roles. We encourage candidates from diverse backgrounds, including those with a disability, additional health and mental health needs, and/or are neurodiverse to apply for our roles.
If you have encountered any accessibility barriers and require further information or reasonable accommodations to our recruitment process, please reach out to the recruiter listed on this job advert so they are able to support you to freely participate equitably in our recruitment and selection process.
Whāia te pae tawhiti kia tata. Ko te pae tata whakamaua, kia tina.
"Seek to bring distant horizons closer. Once near, seize them and make them your reality."
