Senior Supply Planner

About the Company

Aviat Networks is the world's largest independent supplier of wireless transmission systems. We are recognized worldwide for cutting-edge 5G, backhaul, networking solutions and services. Customers in more than 170 countries depend on Aviat Networks to build, expand, and upgrade their voice, data, and video solutions.

About the Role

The Senior Supply Planner plays a critical role in enabling and protecting the business by ensuring the right products, capacity, and inventory are available at the right time to meet evolving customer and operational needs. This role is responsible for stabilizing enterprise supply execution in a dynamic telecommunications environment characterized by shifting demand, inventory variability, and changing business conditions.

This position leads the development and execution of inventory, allocation, and fulfillment strategies that balance service level commitments, supply continuity, inventory health, and order-to-cash (O2C) efficiency. The Senior Supply Planner transforms operational volatility into disciplined, scalable supply decisions, ensuring responsiveness to business changes while mitigating risk.

Working cross-functionally with demand planning, procurement, logistics, and commercial teams, this role anticipates supply challenges, drives proactive adjustments, and supports seamless transitions during periods of change. The Senior Supply Planner also plays a key role in protecting customer experience and business performance by ensuring timely responses to disruptions and aligning supply strategies with enterprise priorities.

Responsibilities

• Stabilize supply execution across constraints and demand shifts
• Lead prioritization and escalation management
• Define inventory, allocation, safety stock, and replenishment strategies
• Optimize service, DSI, OTIF, and inventory tradeoffs
• Align Supply Chain, Fulfillment, Procurement, Manufacturing, and Sales Operations
• Lead supply response during shortages and transitions
• Scale supply planning models, KPI frameworks, and ERP/MRP optimization
• Drive operational risk visibility and analytics
• Strengthen planning data governance and exception management
• Lead automation and AI-ready planning capabilities
• Improve fulfillment responsiveness, inventory health, and operational efficiency
• Reduce aging inventory and O2C (order-to-cash) cost
• Lead planning scalability and workflow simplification
• Define future-state supply planning capabilities

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in supply chain management or related discipline
• APICS / ASCM certification a plus
• 8+ years supply planning, inventory, or master scheduling leadership in manufacturing/electronics environments
• ERP/MRP optimization, supply analytics, inventory strategy, KPI management
• Data governance, automation, AI-ready planning capability
• Executive-level communication, cross-functional influence, operational leadership
• Supply continuity, fulfillment execution, inventory/service-level optimization