Sr Specialist, Supply Chain Demand – Ridgefield Park, NJ

Position Summary

Headquartered in Ridgefield Park, N.J., Samsung Electronics America, Inc. (SEA) is a leader in mobile technologies, consumer electronics, home appliances and enterprise solutions. The company pushes beyond the limits of today’s technology to provide groundbreaking connected experiences across its large portfolio of products and services, including mobile devices, home appliances, home entertainment, 5G networks and digital displays. As an eleven-time winner of EPA’s ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year Award for Sustained Excellence, SEA is dedicated to making a positive impact on the environment through its eco-conscious products, practices and operations.

People | Excellence | Change | Integrity | Co-prosperity

Role and Responsibilities

The Supply Chain Management – DA PSI team is responsible for ensuring product availability to meet forecasted demand. Forecasts are generated via consensus with Sales, Marketing, and with Global Operations Center.  The Sr. Supply Chain Specialist will be responsible for managing a specific range of products and will generate key supply chain reports to provide supply chain risks and opportunities. Supply Chain Sr. Specialist will work closely with the Product marketing, Sales, Logistics, GOC team.  The Sr. specialist will also support strategic projects with cross functional team to optimize the overall supply chain process.

The Supply Chain Sr. Specialist will be the primary point of contact for all supply related issues for the associated product category at the Sales Subsidiary and will interact closely with all teams including Senior Management. 

 Responsibilities

• Effectively manage Forecasting through enhanced sensing of sell-in and sell through, aligning with WOS and revenue Target.

• Assess risks to demand and supply, and provide insights, recommendations and solutions to counterparts and management.

• Generate S&OP call with HQ to raise operation issues and solutions

• Propose and incubate new strategic planning tools to enhance/improve the current Supply Chain system reporting structure.

• Manage a balanced, collaborative relationship within Supply Chain group and externally with Marketing, Sales, and Logistics along with customers to consistently drive continued process improvement and meet Company objectives.

• Drive actions to achieve company objectives for improved customer service levels and inventory planning leveraging sellout/sell in data.

• Provide clarity and integrity to the data to insure analytical excellence of reporting to allow for quick, decision making for management.

• Manage key KPI metrics (Forecast accuracy, Aging, WOS, OTRQ, Cross-ship and TP Achievement)

Skills and Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Undergraduate Degree in Business, Economics, Finance, or similar

• 5~7 years' work experience in relevant field

• Excellent Analytical and Computer Skills

• High proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Outlook, and Office Suite. 

• SAP experience helpful.

• Excellent Communications skills (written, verbal)

• Preferred Bilingual (Koren: English)

• Must be comfortable presenting to and promoting consensus-building with Senior Management up to and including at the Executive level.

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Regular full-time employees (salaried or hourly) have access to benefits inclu