Deployment Planner

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Your role at Clorox:

Deployment Planners play a key role in driving business results: Product Availability, Customer Service and Transportation Costs. This role owns responsibility for ensuring appropriate supply of inventory network wide. The Inventory Deployment Administrators utilize various systems/resources to manage the deployment of product from source location to shipping locations throughout the network considering demand, current inventory, inventory targets, customer service objectives and costs. This role scrutinizes Planning system output and makes decisions that optimize business trade-offs. The Inventory Deployment Administrators should operate with a bias for action while working collaboratively across PSO to drive product availability, inventory performance, and cost minimization. This position has a required start time between 7:00 am and 8:00 am. Due to the broad scope of this role’s responsibilities, the Deployer needs to be able to work independently and with little supervision to execute an accurate inventory plan. They must take initiative and utilize analytical skills to make decisions daily that align company inventory parameters with the forecasted/un-forecasted product demand signals.

In this role, you will:

• Manage deployment of finished goods from plants/postponement sites into the network, balancing cost and service.
• Analyze system settings, production plans, demand signals, and inventory data to make independent deployment decisions.
• Determine what, how much, where, and when to deploy based on demand, stocking needs, transportation capacity, and customer requirements.
• Monitor system alerts, validate accuracy, assess substitutions, and recommend corrective actions without impacting case fill or freight metrics.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with plant scheduling, supply planning, transportation, and customer service.
• Manage out-of-stocks, critical receipts, and redeployment decisions while maintaining customer service targets.
• Improve transportation metrics (on-time delivery, intermodal/truckload utilization) while driving cost efficiency.
• Ensure availability/fill and inventory levels meet targets.
• Recommend and support process, system, and reporting improvements; contribute cost-savings initiatives.
• Support onboarding, special projects, and represent deployment in cross-functional initiatives (e.g., network changes, product launches).

What we look for:

• High School Diploma or GED (accredited institution)
• 3+ years’ of demostrated experience as a Deployment Planner or in supply chain, scheduling, inventory, or customer service
• Ability to work in a manufacturing environment (rotating equipment, elevated surfaces, temperature variations)
• Strong team player with customer service orientation
• Excellent planning, organizational skills, and attention to detail
• Proficient in Microsoft Suite (Word, Excel—advanced, Project, Outlook) and Power BI
• SAP/ERP experience (ECC, S4, SmartOps); experience with SharePoint preferred
• Strong communication, leadership, and interpersonal skills
• Problem solving, decision making, and ability to work autonomously
• Resourceful, results-oriented, and willing to take ownership
• CPG, operations, supply chain, or technical field experience
• APICS CPIM or CSCP certification (preferred)

Workplace type:

Hybrid - 3 days a week in office and 2 days week working from home.

Our values-based culture connects to our purpose and empowers people to be their best, professionally and personally. We serve a diverse consumer base which is why we believe teams that reflect our consumers bring fresh perspectives, drive innovation, and help us stay attuned to the world around us. That’s why we foster an inclusive culture where every person can feel respected, valued, and fully able to participate, and ultimately able to thrive. Learn more.

[U.S.]Additional Information:

At Clorox, we champion people to be well and thrive, starting with our own people. To help make this possible, we offer comprehensive, competitive benefits that prioritize all aspects of wellbeing and provide flexibility for our teammates’ unique needs. This includes robust health plans, a market-leading 401(k) program with a company match, flexible time off benefits (including half-day summer Fridays depending on location), inclusive fertility/adoption benefits, and more.

We are committed to fair and equitable pay and are transparent with current and future teammates about our full salary ranges. We use broad salary ranges that reflect the competitive market for similar jobs, provide sufficient opportunity for growth as you gain experience and expand responsibilities, while also allowing for differentiation based on performance. Based on the breadth of our ranges, most new hires will start at Clorox in the first half of the applicable range. Your starting pay will depend on job-related factors, including relevant skills, knowledge, experience, and location. The applicable salary range for every role in the U.S. is based on your work location and is aligned to one of three zones according to the cost of labor in your area.

–Zone A: $65,000 - $115,800

–Zone B: $59,600 - $106,100

–Zone C: $54,200 - $96,500

All ranges are subject to change in the future. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your location during the hiring process.

This job is also eligible for participation in Clorox’s incentive plans, subject to the terms of the applicable plan documents and policies.

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