Samsara
Senior Supply Planning Manager - Canada
Remote - Canada. Posted 5 days ago
The role
The Senior Supply Planning Manager oversees the hardware supply planning process for the global market. This person will develop rolling 12-month production, shipment, and capacity plans while managing financial liabilities and inventory levels.
What you will do
- Convert demand plan into supply plans and targets by SKU, region, and DC
- Drive capacity planning and recommend tradeoffs for constrained capacity or components
- Influence Clear to Build for the portfolio by confirming component and material availability
- Publish supply targets to factories and VMI partners and track commits
- Monitor weekly coverage to catch risk before it becomes shortage or excess
- Resolve risk using rebalancing, transfers, or air upgrades
- Partner with Demand Planning, NPI and Finance Analysis on demand changes and product transitions
- Plan VMI, ROP accessory, and refurbished supply
- Report performance to targets and communicate supply risks to Operations leadership
- Evolve processes and tooling using data and AI-assisted tools
Required qualifications
- Degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Finance, or Economics
- 6+ years (or 4+ with a Master's) of combined experience in consulting and supply chain planning, supply planning, material planning, or inventory management
- Experience building supply plans against factory capacity and component constraints
- Excellent analytical skills
- Strong communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Proactive, positive approach to problem solving
- Comfort with ambiguity, changing priorities and business volatility
- Working knowledge of ERP and planning systems (for example NetSuite and E2Open)
- Working knowledge of Salesforce
- Working knowledge of spreadsheet-based modeling
Nice to have
- MBA or Master's degree in a related field
- Programming and data skills (SQL, Python)
- Experience with BI tools such as Databricks or Tableau
- Electronics or hardware manufacturing experience
- Experience working with contract manufacturers or JDMs
- Experience with vendor-managed inventory, third-party logistics, or global multi-DC networks
- Experience with new product introductions, product transitions and end-of-life planning
- Experience using AI-assisted tools to improve planning workflows
Benefits
- Base salary
- Performance-based bonus/variable pay
- Equity for eligible roles
- Flexible, employee-led remote model
- Professional development stipend
- Comprehensive health and parental leave plans
Before you apply
- Must secure and maintain the legal right to work in the specified work location
About the company
Samsara is the pioneer of the Connected Operations Cloud, a platform that enables organizations to harness Internet of Things (IoT) data. The company helps improve the safety, efficiency and sustainability of physical operations.