Supply Chain Planner

If you’re looking to join a company where you feel like family, where recognition and celebration form part of our daily mantra, where you can learn and build on your talents and where flexible working is an option then we’d love to hear from you. With 100 years of trading, GPC Asia Pacific is the parent company of iconic brands such as Repco, NAPA and Macleod Accessories.

We are seeking a methodical, experienced, and result-driven Supply Chain Planner to join our team. Reporting to the Planning Manager, this role contributes to the profitability, growth and return on investment of GPC Asia Pacific.

**About the role**:
Based in either Brisbane, QLD, Rowville, VIC or Glendenning, NSW, you will ensure that optimal supply chain plans are generated and executed for your supplier partners, by:

- Managing end to end replenishment tasks within your supplier and product portfolio
- Scheduled and timely ordering and delivery of inventory
- Maintain Inventory levels in accordance with business expectations
- Analyse and report supplier performance DIFOT and KPI metrics
- Building strong working relationships with key contacts - external vendors as well as internal departments such as Category Management and Group Support teams within the Repco & NAPA businesses
- Supporting the execution of integrated supply chain solutions in collaboration with key stakeholders
- Actively participate in S&OP and strategic supply forums
- Work pro-actively with appointed 3rd Party Supply Chain partners

Additionally, our Supply Chain Planners are responsible for monitoring forecasts, supply, availability, and other various elements of purchasing, planning and S&OP.

**All about you**:
You will consider yourself to be a proactive and driven individual with:

- Previous experience in Supply Chain and/or Demand Planning roles
- Excellent verbal & written communication skills and the ability to communicate effectively at all levels
- Intermediate skills in Microsoft Excel, and ideally exposure to Access databases
- Strong drive to meet business deadlines and display resilience in a fast-paced work environment
- Ability to develop trusted professional relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Proactive problem-solving ability
- A curious mind, focusing on solutions supported by sound analytics
- Well-developed negotiation skills
- Big picture view, allowing you to see the ongoing flow on effects of actions and processes
- Having a customer centric mindset

**Looking after you**:
We are committed to ensuring our people are well looked after. In addition to a rewarding and challenging career, we will provide:

- Staff discounts across the GPC Asia Pacific group of Companies
- Private health insurance discounts
- Employee assistance program
- A highly safety conscious work environment
- We proactively support our working parents in a variety of meaningful ways, and our parental leave top-up allowance is one of the ways we do this
- Paid volunteer leave allowing you to give back to your chosen charity/community organisation
- Access to GPC’s exciting employee platform MOVE, unlocking amazing discounts at top retailers, business announcements, e-cards and our employee recognition program, plus so much more

**GPC Asia Pacific**
Movement is in our DNA. We are **GPC Asia Pacific**: one of the largest industrial and automotive aftermarket parts and service suppliers in Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia. Our iconic brands include Repco, NAPA, McLeod Accessories and Motion Industries.

Yet we are more than just a parts and service company. We propel people forward.

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