The Supply Chain Demand Planner is responsible for balancing supply, demand, and inventory across an assigned product portfolio. This role partners closely with suppliers and cross-functional teams to maintain supply continuity, optimize inventory, manage product transitions, and proactively address risks that could impact customer service.
The role also drives planning excellence through data analysis, standard work, and continuous improvement.
Responsibilities
As a Supply Chain Demand Planner, you will be responsible for the following:
- Supply & Demand Planning: Manage assigned SKU portfolios, forecasts, inventory, backlog, shortages, and supply risks.
- Supplier Management: Partner with suppliers to maintain supply continuity and resolve constraints and critical shortages.
- Inventory Management: Drive actions to achieve inventory targets and reduce excess, obsolete, slow-moving, and aging inventory.
- Procurement & Cost Optimization: Partner with Procurement/Sourcing on supplier management, sourcing initiatives, cost savings, and supply optimization.
- Purchase Execution: Place and manage purchase orders and internal requisitions to support supply requirements.
- NPI & Lifecycle Management: Coordinate new product introductions and product transitions, including phase-in/phase-out planning and inventory risk management.
- Planning Excellence: Improve planning processes, standard work, reporting, KPIs, and organizational consistency.
- Continuous Improvement: Lead and support improvement initiatives using Fortive Business System (FBS) tools and structured problem-solving methods.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Operations, Procurement, Finance, Product Management, Demand Planning, and other stakeholders to address supply, inventory, and customer-service risks.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Operations, Business, or a related field.
- 3+ years of experience in supply/demand planning, purchasing, materials, or inventory management.
- Strong knowledge of supply chain planning, material flow, inventory, backlog management, and supply-demand balancing.
- Proficiency in UBI, Power BI, Power Query, and Excel for data analysis and reporting.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and continuous improvement skills.
- Experience with E&O inventory, NPI/PLCM, and supplier management.
- Ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects and competing priorities.
- Strong communication, teamwork, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Knowledge of Lean manufacturing and continuous improvement methodologies.
Fortive Corporation Overview
Fortive’s essential technology makes the world stronger, safer, and smarter. We accelerate transformation across a broad range of applications including environmental, health and safety compliance, industrial condition monitoring, next-generation product design, and healthcare safety solutions.
We are a global industrial technology innovator with a startup spirit. Our forward-looking companies lead the way in software-powered workflow solutions, data-driven intelligence, AI-powered automation, and other disruptive technologies. We’re a force for progress, working alongside our customers and partners to solve challenges on a global scale, from workplace safety in the most demanding conditions to groundbreaking sustainability solutions.
We are a diverse team 18,000 strong, united by a dynamic, inclusive culture and energized by limitless learning and growth. We use the proven Fortive Business System (FBS) to accelerate our positive impact.
At Fortive, we believe in you. We believe in your potential—your ability to learn, grow, and make a difference.
At Fortive, we believe in us. We believe in the power of people working together to solve problems no one could solve alone.
At Fortive, we believe in growth. We’re honest about what’s working and what isn’t, and we never stop improving and innovating.
Fortive: For you, for us, for growth.
About the TeamSkills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Operations, Business, or a related field
- 3+ years of experience in supply and demand planning, purchasing, materials, or inventory management
- Knowledge of supply chain planning, material flow, inventory, backlog management, and supply-demand balancing
- Proficiency in UBI, Power BI, Power Query, and Excel for data analysis and reporting
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and continuous improvement skills
- Experience with excess and obsolete inventory, new product introduction/product lifecycle management, and supplier management
- Ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects and competing priorities
- Strong communication, teamwork, and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Knowledge of Lean manufacturing and continuous improvement methodologies
Fortive Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Fortive and has not been reviewed or approved by Fortive.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave is fully paid for 12 weeks for all parents, with fertility coverage via Progyny and generous adoption/surrogacy support. Backup child and adult care plus inclusive eligibility extend support across diverse family structures.
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Healthcare Strength — Multiple PPO and HSA medical options include telemedicine and second-opinion services, alongside robust mental-health access through Spring Health with no‑cost therapy sessions. The breadth of medical and behavioral health resources is highlighted as a strength.
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Retirement Support — The 401(k) provides a competitive employer match each pay period, with an additional company retirement contribution after one year of service. Financial wellness tools and an employee stock purchase plan further bolster long‑term savings.
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What We Do
Fortive’s essential technology makes the world stronger, safer, and smarter. We accelerate transformation across a broad range of applications including environmental, health and safety compliance, industrial condition monitoring, next-generation product design, and healthcare safety solutions. We are a global industrial technology innovator with a startup spirit. Our forward-looking companies lead the way in software-powered workflow solutions, data-driven intelligence, AI-powered automation, and other disruptive technologies. We’re a force for progress, working alongside our customers and partners to solve challenges on a global scale, from workplace safety in the most demanding conditions to groundbreaking sustainability solutions. We are a diverse team 18,000 strong, united by a dynamic, inclusive culture and energized by limitless learning and growth. We use the proven Fortive Business System (FBS) to accelerate our positive impact. At Fortive, we believe in you. We believe in your potential—your ability to learn, grow, and make a difference. At Fortive, we believe in us. We believe in the power of people working together to solve problems no one could solve alone. At Fortive, we believe in growth. We’re honest about what’s working and what isn’t, and we never stop improving and innovating. Fortive: For you, for us, for growth.
