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Welcome to the intersection of energy and home services. At NRG, we’re driven by our passion to create a smarter, cleaner and more connected future.

Vivint Smart Home, an NRG owned company, is a leading smart home company in the United States, dedicated to redefining the home experience with intelligent products and services. We find purpose in proactively protecting and keeping our customers connected to home, no matter where they are. Join the Smart Home team to create smarter, safer and more sustainable homes.

Key responsibilities include:

• Analyze forecasted demand across various sales channels, products, and warehouse locations to develop and execute weekly supply plans. These plans should align with Vivint’s financial goals and Supply Chain KPIs.
• Fully understand relationship between the supply plan, lead time, safety stock, and production capacity to build a successful plan to support sales, while achieving and exceeding inventory turns targets.
• Regularly analyze open purchase orders, purchase order adjustments, and changes in demand to adjust supply plan accordingly, while working with the appropriate groups for corrective action.
• Partner with Strategic Sourcing teams to ensure timely and accurate supply, understanding of critical needs, and improvements in contracts and terms to support business goals. In addition, provide NPI cutover strategies to Sourcing and Product Management to reduce E&O and increases sales opportunities.
• Partner with the Sales Organization on historical and future changes in demand, through sales promotions, price adjustments, and business strategy shifts.
• Partner with Field Planning to understand changes in demand at the micro level, using trends from Market Intelligence to predict macro changes in demand and changes to the supply plan.
• Identify and recommend process improvement opportunities to management, with the ability to lead projects from start to finish.
• Ability to do scenario planning with many complex and ambiguous variables, in order to drive to the optimal supply plan with the least risk
• Procure goods and materials consistent with material and delivery requirements
• Supplier negotiations related to continuity of supply
• Manage master data, purchase order execution, and other tasks in the day-to-day management of obtaining finished goods
• Support in supplier quality issues
• Maintain supplier relationships that encourage participation and contributions (processes, ideas, and improvements) and initiate actions required to maintain their performance at a high level
• Primary liaison between supplier and Vivint when quality and supply issues arise
• Participate with Strategic Sourcing to measure supplier performance
• Manage the buying of certain electronic finished goods to support distribution to field technicians without interruption
• Support and lead continuous improvement projects
• Resolve supply constraints and ensure suppliers’ capability/capacity to meet our needs.
• Help lead supplier scorecard evaluation and coach suppliers as needed.

Who you will work with:

• Strategic Sourcing
• Commodity
• Field Planning
• External Suppliers
• Logistics
• Product
• Product Marketing
• Quality
• Engineering
• Receiving and Warehousing

Education/Experience preferred:

• Education: BS degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, Engineering, or related field
• Experience:  5 combined years of purchasing, material management and demand planning experience preferred
• SAP experience desirable
• In depth knowledge of Supply Chain processes and best practices
• Strong communication, negotiating, and presentation skills

Learn about the Vivint Culture and why it’s a great place to grow your career!

Here are some highlighted perks you should ask us about:

• Free daily lunch and drinks on site
• Paid holidays and flexible paid time away
• Employee/Friends/Family Discounts
• Onsite health clinic, gym, gaming tables
• Medical/dental/vision/life coverage & 24/7 Medical Hotline
• 401(k) + Employer Match
• Employee Resource Groups

WORKING CONDITIONS: 

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

SAFETY:

Vivint enforces a safety culture whereby all employees have the responsibility for continuously developing and maintaining a safe working environment.  Each new employee is responsible for completing all training requirements.  Additionally, the employee must accept they have responsibility for maintaining the safety of themselves, their co-workers, and the public.  Employee must adhere to all written and verbal instructions, promptly report and correct all hazards or unsafe conditions, question non-standard operations or unmitigated hazards, and provide feedback to management on all safety issues.

NRG Energy is committed to a drug and alcohol-free workplace. To the extent permitted by law and any applicable collective bargaining agreement, employees are subject to periodic random drug testing, and post-accident and reasonable suspicion drug and alcohol testing. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability. Level, Title and/or Salary may be adjusted based on the applicant's experience or skills.  

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