Inventory Planner

At Pet Circle, we want to create a world where pets and their families are healthy, happy & spend more time together - and we are looking for fantastic people to help us do that

Over the past ten years, we’ve scaled to become one of Australia's Top 5 eCommerce companies & the No.1 player in the Online Pet industry. We will accelerate our growth as we continue on our mission to disrupt the way that pet parents discover & shop for the products they love.

The pet industry is booming (it’s a $15billion dollar industry) & pets are holding bigger spaces in our hearts and homes than ever before. Online penetration of the pet industry is going to grow exponentially in the next 5 years. This is a unique opportunity in your career to be part of our exceptional growth story

Founded and headquartered in Sydney, our team is now over 700 people strong and are based across Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines.

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The Opportunity*
Reporting to our Inventory Planning Manager, you will work as part of our Supply Chain team focusing on inventory and supply planning across all of our different pet categories. You will work cross-functionally with our fulfilment, commercial and business management teams and will learn how different parts of our business interact with each other to achieve our common company goal: going above and beyond for our customers.
**What you’ll be doing**
- Ensure smooth facilitation of goods from our supply base into the fulfilment centre.
- Internal: key involvement in the S&OP function.
- External: owning the performance and relationship management and development of suppliers from a supply chain perspective.
- External: fostering partnerships with all external and internal stakeholders to promote trust within the end-to-end planning process and increase awareness of the value proposition of a well run demand and inventory function.
- Form strong working relationships with other areas of the business with a focus on category, planning and the warehouse.
- Maintain good working relationships with your Manager, your peers and subordinates.
- Creation and completion of supplier plans related to improving performance from a supply chain perspective.
- Ensure daily demand is placed on the suppliers.
- Develop and implement demand strategies.
- Active monitoring and evaluation of the OOS report.
- Provide and implement recommendations and actions to ensure we address OOS causes.
- Ensure all inventory and stock management systems are maintained accurately, within the agreed parameters and in real-time.
- Manage workflow processes, timing and ensure replenishment activities are efficient.

**Your Ideal Skills & Experience**
- Highly motivated, action-oriented individual who is ready to take on responsibility and make independent decisions.
- Willingness to roll up your sleeves and be hands on to achieve outcomes.
- Demonstrated ability to work closely with others, both internally and externally.
- High level attention to detail, planning, organisational and administrative skills with demonstrated effectiveness in developing systems, processes and procedures to prioritise tasks and ensure achievement of goals and meet deadlines.
- Experience dealing with a high number of SKUs (5,000+).
- Advanced Excel skills.
- Experience in using data driven analysis to identify and solve problems.

**Role Location**
At Pet Circle we believe that collaboration and team connection is key for success. This role will be based 2 days in our fulfilment centre in Eastern Creek NSW 2766, 1 day in our CBD head office, and the remaining working from home. #LI-Hybrid

As part of your working from home arrangement we will provide you with IT hardware and an office allowance to support your home set up.

**Why Join?**:

- Australian Hyper-Growth Startup - Head Office in Sydney
- Grown to become one of Australia's Top 5 eCommerce companies & the No.1 player in the Online Pet industry.
- From puppies to unicorns: Pet Circle banks $125m
- Pet Circle raises $125m to become Australia's latest unicorn

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Make an impact: *Enjoy being part of a driven team with a collaborative culture that values decision-makers and action
**Invest in you**:Accelerate your career through our learning & development opportunities - think learning tools, stretch projects, focus groups, secondments and other internal mobility opportunities
**Work where it works for you** - work anywhere in the world for up to 2 weeks per year.
**We value wellbeing**: We’re here to support you in times of need with our Employee Assistance Program. Team hybrid working arrangements also enable you to balance collaboration with home and family commitments.
**Pet better**:Take advantage of our employee discount, product sample giveaways and PAWrental leave for your furry family
**Help us to give back**: Join us on our animal welfare mission: we donate 10,000kg of pet food and supplies per month to pet shelters and support through our communities through team charit