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Univar Solutions USA Inc
Supply Planner
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A Supply Planner provides supply planning and manages inventories for a company. Monitors inventory capacity, maintains stocks, and manages inventories so that production is not delayed or disrupted. Develops strategic supply and inventory management plans and investigates supply chain issues.
$87,843 / year median in Illinois
+5% projected growth
Job Description
Supply Planner Univar Solutions USA Inc paid time off, 401(k) United States, Illinois, Bedford Park Aug 20, 2026 A Place Where People Matter. Start your career journey with Univar Solutions! Here you can make an impact on the world around you and accelerate your career in areas that energize and excite you. The Supply Planner position is a highly visible supply chain role that's charged with coordinating and optimizing the inventory planning and procurement cost across the supply chain network. What you'll do: Ability to balance the sometimes-conflicting goals of inventory targets, target customer service levels, forecast accuracy, and safety stock requirements for the allocated portfolio of SKU's for which they are assigned.
Key liaison to resolve supply issues and ensures the efficient delivery of inventory, service and cost objectives.
Identify ways to improve supply planning processes by applying current tools.
Responsible for ensuring accuracy of all purchase order data to support the Sales, Operations & Transportation Teams
Meet customer demand and regional performance objectives.
Proactively use MRP's and other tools to review inventory projections & supply-demand summaries to prevent potential shortages or excessive inventory and demurrage
Keep track of inventory levels and make suggestions on inventory parameters
Ability to assess purchasing options, optimizing loads via combining various products onto a single order, pre-ordering as needed to reduce costs. Works with product marketing management on overall supply direction
Review out of stock situations or shortage of supply issues and recommends mitigations. Uses exception reports to identify and resolve potential out of stock issues
Conducts business and performance reviews with key suppliers on an ad-hoc basis
Tracks and reconciles weekly/monthly metrics versus established targets What you'll need: Bachelor's degree in business, Mathematics, Supply Chain/Operations, Finance or other related field, preferred
Strong Excel skills required and experience with data manipulation - including graphs, pivots, vlookups, etc.
Knowledge of integrated planning software highly desirable
Must possess very strong analytical skills and be detailed oriented
Commit to process improvement and ability to perform root cause analysis
SAP experience preferred Where you'll work: This is a hybrid based role that will report out of our Bedford Park, IL location -8500 W 68th Street Bedford Park, IL 60501 Pay & benefits: The salary range for this position is $58,420 - $73,030. The specific salary offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including the candidate's relevant experience, education, training, certifications, qualifications, and work location. Available employee benefits include health, vision, and dental. We also provide 401k matching for retirement and paid time off.