Supply Network Inventory Planner - Infra / Chemicals Industry

We are seeking a thorough, analytical, and proactive PU Supply Network Inventory Planner to lead inventory policies and strategies across our Performance Units (PUs). This role is responsible for ensuring that supply planners adopt the correct inventory strategy-covering stock segmentation, ongoing safety stock refreshes, stock-coverage management, excess-inventory prevention, and the execution of a PU-level inventory efficiency roadmap.

Working through our global digital planning system, Kinaxis Maestro, the PU Supply Network Inventory Planner will own the end-to-end inventory strategy for the PU across both Finished Goods and Raw Materials. This position requires close collaboration with replenishment, production, and raw material planners to ensure planning parameters and strategies are updated, aligned, and rigorously executed.

The role will own the entire SLOBs (slow-moving and obsolete stock) management process-diagnosing root causes, addressing failures at source, and driving preventive measures. Success requires strong supply-planning experience, excellent analytical capability within Kinaxis Maestro, and the ability to work effectively with planning teams both in Pune and across global markets.

What You Will Deliver

1. Inventory Replenishment Strategy

• Develop and own the PU Inventory Strategy, aligning it with the Global Planning Playbook.
• Ensure inventory strategies are well-defined, reviewed, and approved with PU S&OP and Planning Delivery Leads, and effectively implemented with PU supply planners in Kinaxis Maestro.
• Lead the safety stock strategy-ensuring compliance with global requirements, assessing impacts, and securing approvals from key planning and market stakeholders.
• Own and maintain key inventory-planning master data in line with global governance (lead times, service levels, replenishment parameters, segmentation rules).

2. Inefficient Stock / SLOBs Management

3. Collaboration & Stakeholder Management

4. Systems & Reporting

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