Demand and Supply Planner

At Infinidat, we help enterprises and service providers empower their data-driven competitive advantage at scale. We are a leading provider of enterprise-class storage solutions. The company’s software-focused architecture delivers sub-millisecond latency, full availability, and scalability with a significantly lower total cost of ownership than competing storage technologies.

The Demand and supply Planner is responsible for overseeing end-to-end operations, including planning, manufacturing, optimizing inventory levels, with a strong focus on managing third-party contract manufacturing (CM) global relationships. This role ensures operational excellence, cost efficiency, and on-time delivery of products while maintaining high-quality standards and compliance.

• Lead and manage all operational aspects including supply planning and production.
• Oversee contract manufacturing partners: performance management, cost negotiation, and production planning.
• This role will be partnering with the sales teams, to ensure the demand process delivers an agreed and workable sales forecast, identifying incremental demand, ensuring gaps and overlaps are addressed, different scenarios being evaluated, and issues appropriately escalated to meet business objectives.
• Develop and implement strategies and BI tools to optimize supply chain efficiency, reduce costs, and improve service levels.
• Ensure adherence to quality, safety, and regulatory standards across all manufacturing partners Collaborate cross-functionally with R&D, Quality, Finance, and Commercial teams.
• Identify and mitigate operational risks, bottlenecks, and supply disruptions.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives (Lean, Six Sigma, etc.).
• Manage operational budgets, KPIs, and reporting metrics.
• Support new product launches and scale-up activities with CMs.
• Evaluate and onboard new manufacturing partners as needed.

• B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering – A Must.
• 2-3 years of relevant experience.
• Proven leadership skills in a matrix environment.
• Very strong analytical skills.
• Organized and efficient, capable of performing well with multiple priorities and interfaces and constructive challenge stakeholders.
• Customer-oriented proactive attitude takes initiative, creates an achievement environment.
• Process-oriented mindset to manage complexity and changes.
• Anticipates and plans for potential risks; develops corresponding contingency plans.
• Good communication skills; ability to partner with and influence others without direct authority, build consensus and look for collaboration with people from different departments and all levels.
• Strong background in contract manufacturing, supply chain management, and operations.
• Excellent negotiation, project management, and communication skills.
• Proficiency with ERP systems and supply chain tools.

About Infinidat

Infinidat’s enterprise storage portfolio provides global enterprises and service providers with best-in-class solutions for primary storage, next-generation data protection, disaster recovery, business continuity, and cyber resilience. Infinidat’s InfuzeOS on all our platforms is the only single, software-defined storage architecture in the industry that spans all platforms. We recently showcased the future of enterprise storage, cyber security, and hybrid multi-cloud with our new and exciting G4 launch!

Not only has Infinidat won 24 awards in the first half of 2024, but has also been a 6-time winner of the Gartner® Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer Award for Primary Storage and we can go on, and on, and on!