Senior Analyst, Supply Planning
Posted Sep 17, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
Tell me about a time you caught a supply or inventory risk before it became a real problem. How did you spot it and what did you do next?
What they are checking: proactive risk identification and follow-through on escalation, not just reporting problems after the fact
Describe a situation where you had to communicate a difficult trade-off decision to stakeholders who didn't agree with your recommendation.
What they are checking: ability to hold a position under pushback while keeping cross-functional relationships intact
Tell me about a time you worked with people in manufacturing, demand planning, and maybe finance, all pulling in different directions. How did you get to a decision?
What they are checking: cross-functional collaboration skill and comfort brokering competing priorities rather than escalating everything
Give me an example of a process improvement or lean idea you introduced in a planning or supply chain context. What was the result?
What they are checking: genuine continuous improvement experience versus just familiarity with the vocabulary
Have you worked in CPG or a similarly fast-moving, high-SKU-count environment before? What was different about planning there compared to other industries you've seen?
What they are checking: relevant industry context and whether the candidate grasps the scale and complexity of consumer goods supply chains
What would you do
Say your case fill is dropping for one SKU cluster and inventory is climbing at the same time. How would you go about root causing that?
What they are checking: structured root cause analysis skills and ability to reconcile two KPIs that seem to point in different directions
If an external manufacturer tells you they can't hit a production date you were counting on, what do you do in the next 24 hours?
What they are checking: triage instincts and stakeholder communication under a real time-pressured supply disruption
Imagine you're juggling three urgent requests at once: an inventory escalation, a monthly Step 3 input deadline, and a stakeholder asking for an ad hoc analysis. How do you decide what comes first?
What they are checking: prioritization under competing demands and pressure, a named requirement in the posting
About the work
Walk me through how you'd build a constrained MPS or DRP plan for a category when demand exceeds available capacity. What trade-offs would you look at first?
What they are checking: whether the candidate understands the mechanics of constrained planning and how to prioritize trade-offs between service, inventory and capacity
What's your experience with SAP planning modules or Kinaxis, and can you give an example of a plan you built or adjusted using one of those tools?
What they are checking: actual hands-on familiarity with the specific planning systems versus general software comfort
Master data errors can quietly break a whole planning run. How would you go about finding and fixing a data integrity issue before it causes a bad plan?
What they are checking: understanding that master data ownership is a real operational responsibility, not paperwork
How do you typically approach a monthly KPI review? Walk me through what you look at and how you decide what's worth a corrective action versus noise.
What they are checking: analytical rigor and judgment about which metric movements actually warrant intervention
What's your comfort level with Excel for this kind of work, maybe pivot tables, lookups, that kind of thing, and can you describe a specific analysis you built?
What they are checking: verifying claimed Excel proficiency with a concrete example rather than a self-rating
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