Senior Material Planner-Strategic Accounts & Data Centers

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Monday to Thursday, work onsite with your colleagues. Fridays, choose your work location, balancing what your work requires.

Senior Material Planner - Strategic Accounts & Data Centers

Job Summary

The Senior Material Analyst & Planner - Strategic Accounts & Data Centers serves as a high-impact, hybrid leader bridging mission-critical customer fulfillment strategy with operational material execution. Based in our La Crosse, WI facility, this role partners directly with Sales, Product Management, and Key Clients to design, propose, and implement customized cooling and HVAC supply chain solutions for the rapidly growing data center vertical. You will manage end-to-end planning, procurement, and inventory health for specialized, high-capacity equipment while driving Sales, Inventory, and Operations Planning (SIOP) alignment to protect customer expected lead-times.

Key Competencies

• Customer-Focused Strategic Thinker: Proven capacity to partner with Strategic Account Sales teams and external clients to translate business goals into tailored, resilient fulfillment architectures.
• Mission-Critical Data Center Acumen: Understanding of data center infrastructure timelines, critical spare parts logistics, and specialized equipment lifecycle demands.
• Advanced Analytics & Problem Solving: Strong financial acumen (full P&L consideration) combined with advanced data skills (Excel, Tableau, Alteryx, Dataiku) to build trade-off business cases and drive performance visibility.
• Collaborative Leadership: Interpersonal excellence with a track record of leading cross-functional teams (ISC, Finance, Procurement, Engineering, Quality) and facilitating lean events (RIE, Kaizen, A3).

Responsibilities

• Develop Strategic Data Center Solutions: Partner with Sales and data center customer accounts to design vertical-specific fulfillment strategies. Coordinate custom supply chain proposals aligning with expected data center commissioning schedules and aggressive lead-time targets.
• Execute Specialized Material Planning & Procurement: Manage material requirements, critical spare parts, and component portfolios across multiple distribution centers. Execute purchase orders, analyze weekly EBS/PSI requirements, and lead direct-ship versus stocking optimization strategies to protect client uptime.
• Direct Phase-In/Phase-Out Projects: Coordinate materials activities for strategic account product lifecycles, value-engineering initiatives, design updates, supplier sourcing shifts, and new product introductions.
• Champion Lean Continuous Improvement: Proactively address complex internal/external disruptions using lean tools (A3 problem solving, MDI, Kaizen events, and RIEs) to safely expedite, defer, or align schedule of goods in weekly leadership reviews.
• Drive Standard Work & Team Onboarding: Author, document, and deliver rigorous standard-work training for the material planning team, elevating core metrics, cleaning data, and boosting general operational capabilities.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's degree (BA/BS) in Supply Chain, Logistics, Engineering, Business, or a related discipline required; MBA preferred (related years of expert-level experience considered in lieu of degree).
• Experience: 5+ years working across multiple supply chain segments (such as material planning, demand planning, sourcing, logistics, or purchasing).
• Data Center / Industrial HVAC Industry Knowledge: Demonstrate the capacity to support capital-intensive, high-growth verticals (data centers, semiconductors, or large-scale mission-critical facilities is highly preferred) .
• Systems Knowledge: Deep expertise with major ERP engines (such as Oracle R12 and Servigistics) and advanced data skills (advanced Excel pivot tables/VLOOKUPs are required; experience with Dataiku and Tableau preferred).
• Methodology & Certifications: Practical experience executing lean methodologies (A3, 9-step, MDI) and leading cross-functional events; APICS CPIM certification (or a commitment to secure it) is preferred.

Annual Base Salary Range or Hourly Base Pay Range:
$72,611.66 - $101,394.99
Compensation Type:
Salary
Incentive Eligible:
No
Sales Commission Eligible:
No

Disclaimer: We strive to provide competitive compensation for this position, tailored to a variety of factors. The actual compensation will depend on elements such as seniority, merit, geographic location, education, experience, travel requirements, and union designation. Our compensation range is generally based on the national average for the country. Additionally, benefits may vary depending on the region, business alignment, union involvement, and employee status.

Thrive at work and at home:

• Benefits kick in on DAY ONE for you and your family, including health insurance and holistic wellness programs that include generous incentives - WE DARE TO CARE!
• Family building benefits include fertility coverage and adoption/surrogacy assistance.
• Paid time off includes up to 15 vacation days, paid holidays, sick leave, and additional options to support volunteer and parental leave.
• 401K match up, educational and training opportunities through company programs along with tuition assistance and student debt support.

Disclaimer: Benefit offerings may vary by site as well as Collective Bargaining Agreements and local/state regulations

Safety Sensitive Role:
Yes
The company designates certain roles as Safety Sensitive. Safety Sensitive roles may require that you pass additional drug screening.