**Job Description:** + As a Global Networking Supply Planning Program Manager, you will be responsible for validating demand forecasts and providing timely short-term and long-term demand signals and purchase orders to vendors for the client’s Networking Supply Chain business under the technical infrastructure organization. + Ensuring timely availability of all required materials and effective inventory management are key aspects of this role. + In this position, you will collaborate with cross-functional groups to align internal demand requirements with external supply capabilities. **Responsibilities:** + Validate demand forecast to ensure that there are no major changes to demand within the frozen time window. + Manage procurement in line with allocated budget. + Validate supply plan and ensure that materials are delivered on time with minimal delivery performance and quality issues. + Responsible for supply planning metrics for the suppliers managed. + Identify the root causes for metrics misses and implement short-term and long-term solutions. + Responsible for effective reporting of the data (forecast, supply plan, metrics etc) to internal and external stakeholders. + Support the operational excellence objectives by ensuring material availability for internal customer orders. + Collaborating with the data teams to validate the accuracy of data sources used for supply chain management. **Experience:** + Minimum 5 years of experience in supply chain. + Experience in Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing, Operations, or Supply/Demand Planning. + Strong foundational knowledge in data networking architectures and physical network components. + Experience with supply / inventory planning, reverse supply chain, labor/deployment planning in large scale data center infrastructure domain (compute, storage or networking) - networking experience preferred. **Skills:** + Data analysis skills (Excel/GSheets, SQL, Slides) + Supply Chain Management + Program Management + Applications experience - MRP systems such as O9, Kinexi **Education:** + Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience **About US Tech Solutions:** US Tech Solutions is a global staff augmentation firm providing a wide range of talent on-demand and total workforce solutions. To know more about US Tech Solutions, please visit www.ustechsolutions.com (http://www.ustechsolutionsinc.com) . US Tech Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.