Rivian

Channel Planner

Rivian • $69K — $91K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 2-3 years in Automotive or Supply Chain roles, focusing on demand supply chain, materials management, or logistics
  • Bachelor's degree in Data Analytics, Supply Chain, Engineering, or a related field
  • Master's degree (MS or MBA) preferred
  • Proficient in SAP, Google Workspace, DataBricks, Hex, SQL, and Python
  • Experience with high-volume ordering in fast-paced environments
  • Strong analytical skills and problem-solving capabilities
  • Experience in setting up and managing analytics-based performance tracking within supply chain.

Responsibilities

  • Support channel planning to enhance service levels while minimizing inventory
  • Manage master data and inventory parameters for service center materials
  • Develop and improve part inventory stocking models and distribution strategies
  • Analyze system outputs to ensure correct material availability
  • Optimize logistics through coordination of material movements
  • Drive best practices to improve cost efficiency and service delivery
  • Collaborate with operations and planning teams to clarify service level expectations.

Benefits

  • Paid vacation and paid sick leave
  • Comprehensive insurance benefits including life, medical, dental, and vision
  • Short-term and long-term disability insurance
  • Opportunity to participate in a 401(k) plan and Employee Stock Purchase Program
  • Full-time employee coverage beginning on the first day of employment.
Full Job Description
Role Summary

As the Channel Planner, Service Parts, you will be in support of the front line operations, providing assistance to our Service Parts Advisors and ensuring the Rivian Service Centers have all the parts they need, when and where they need, at the most effecting cost. You will drive materials management strategies to better serve our customers. The opening will be on a hybrid model, flexing between in-office at our Irvine, CA or Plymouth, MI location. This position reports directly to the Manager, Channel Planner.

Responsibilities

  • Support the Channel Planning and Analytics strategic plan which will support better service levels with less inventory and optimized safety stocks
  • Own master data and inventory parameters for Service Center materials to support stocking to meet the demand forecast, provide excellent fill rates, reduce down time, and deliver cost-efficient supply chain models
  • Support development, launch, and continuous improvement of part inventory stocking models and strategies, part order replenishment generation logic, and distribution planning to meet our global SLAs
  • Evaluate and analyze system outputs to ensure correct materials are being ordered, replenished, and available to support global service requirements. Focus on automation and controls to quickly identify errors to eliminate supply chain noise by modifying, removing, or adding orders to meet forecasted/unforecasted demand
  • Coordinate and execute transactional movements of materials to optimize and reduce logistics costs (consolidation), meet SLAs (replenish, transfer logic), and reduce global inventory costs
  • Drive operational excellence and best practices across the network aimed at reducing costs and improving service levels such as replenishment order generation, Bill of distribution
  • Collaborate with Service Field operations, Supply Chain Planning, Demand Planning, and other key partners to launch channel planning ensuring clarity around service level expectations, part allocation strategy, part availability, inventory refresh cycles, part consumption, and field performance
  • Seek out new innovations and present new strategies to continuously improve all areas of the organization
  • Perform additional responsibilities as assigned

Qualifications

  • 2-3 years of experience in Automotive, Tier 1, OEM, or technical field preferred with emphasis in demand supply chain, materials management, distribution, or logistics
  • BS/BA in Data Analytics, Supply Chain, Engineering or related field required
  • MS or MBA preferred in related discipline
  • Proficient in SAP, Google Workspace, PTC-Servigistics, DataBricks, Hex, SQL and Python (a plus)
  • Experience with high volume ordering within a fast-paced distribution environment
  • Strong collaborator, with willingness to drive change
  • Knowledge or experience setting up and managing analytics-based performance tracking within supply chain
  • Clear understanding of planning systems, warehouse management systems, establishing inventory levels, and integration/interdependencies across ERP systems
  • Strong analytical and structured problem-solving capabilities
  • Strong collaborator, with willingness to drive change
  • Process design experience, with proven ability to understand, document, and transform complex processes
  • Stand or sit: Ability to sit or stand at a desk or in collaborative spaces for 8-12 hours per day
  • Use hands/fingers: Ability to type on a keyboard and use a computer mouse
  • Talk/hear: Required to communicate using telephone, zoom, in-person meetings and email/chat
  • See: Ability to view, read and interpret documents and IT systems
  • Exposure to work environment: Ability to perform all duties in an office environment that may contain ambient noise and temperature fluctuations
  • Travel: Ability to travel locally in personal vehicle, regionally or nationally less than 5% of the time

Pay Disclosure

The salary range for this role is $63,300 to $83,840 for Michigan based applicants.

The salary range for this role is $69,300 to $91,790 for California (Non-Bay Area) based applicants.

This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, specific competencies, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, shift, and organizational needs.

The successful candidate may be eligible for annual performance bonus.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time employees, their spouse or domestic partner, and children up to age 26, including but not limited to paid vacation, paid sick leave, and a competitive portfolio of insurance benefits including life, medical, dental, vision, short-term disability insurance, and long-term disability insurance to eligible employees. You may also have the opportunity to participate in Rivian's 401(k) Plan and Employee Stock Purchase Program if you meet certain eligibility requirements. Full-time employee coverage is effective on their first day of employment. Part-time employee coverage is effective the first of the month following 90 days of employment. More information about benefits is available at rivianbenefits.com.

You can apply for this role through careers.rivian.com (or through internal-careers-rivian.icims.com if you are a current employee). This job is not expected to be closed any sooner than September 8, 2026.

About Rivian

Rivian is an American automaker and automotive technology company. Founded in 2009, the company develops vehicles, products and services related to sustainable transportation. Rivian has raised over $10.5 billion since 2019, with investments from Amazon, Ford, and Cox Automotive. The company's first two vehicles, the R1T and R1S, are electric vehicles that are expected to be released in 2021. Rivian has also announced plans to produce electric delivery vans for Amazon. The company has received praise for its focus on sustainability and its commitment to using recycled materials in its vehicles.
Learn more about Rivian
Size
10,000 employees
Market Cap
$16.8 billion
Industry
Founded
2009
NASDAQ

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