Operations Lead – Material Planning

🕒 May 29

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $97.8k - $115k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⚙️ Operations

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Dandy

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501 - 1000 employees

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

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Dandy is a digital dental laboratory revolutionizing how dental practices scan, order, and collaborate on lab work. Dandy provides innovative technologies like intraoral scanners and digital workflows to thousands of dental practices, enhancing patient care and practice efficiency. The company offers a range of dental services and products, including crowns, dentures, and sleep apnea devices, with a focus on precision and fast turnaround times. Dandy's advanced digital dental technology supports real-time communication and design approvals, enabling dental professionals to deliver consistent, high-quality restorations and improve patient experiences.

📋 Description

• Build and maintain forecasting models for high-priority production materials including raw materials, resins, chemicals, etc. • Track and maintain supplier signals across the supplier base with particular focus on long-lead and high-risk, critical materials. • Develop initial buy plans for new lab launches and capacity expansions, coordinating across procurement, operations, and lab teams. • Manage the full PO lifecycle in NetSuite from requisition through vendor confirmation, receipt, and closure. • Review and update NetSuite stocking levels and reorder points on a regular cadence, aligned with weekly consumption reporting and lab-level demand changes. • Monitor inventory consumption and proactively identify slow-moving, excess, and obsolete materials. • Manage day-to-day relationships with key production material suppliers, focusing on on-time, in-full delivery. • Identify and execute cost reduction opportunities in a dynamically growing business, including material substitutions, vendor negotiations, and volume consolidation strategies. • Own the intake and execution of material change requests ensuring affected teams are aligned and BoMs are updated accordingly. • Build and maintain standard operating procedures for key procurement workflows.

🎯 Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in procurement, supply chain, or materials planning, with demonstrated ownership of end-to-end procurement workflows • Proven ability to build and maintain forecasting models for multiple material categories simultaneously • Strong supplier relationship management skills with experience driving on-time, in-full delivery outcomes • Experience identifying and executing cost reduction initiatives, including material changes and vendor negotiations • Hands-on experience with item master data, BoM maintenance, and systemic planning levers in an ERP environment • Comfortable managing E&O, stocking level analysis, and inventory health reporting • Experience coaching or mentoring peers or direct reports in a procurement or operations context • Highly organized, proactive communicator who thrives in a fast-moving, cross-functional environment • Experience working in a remote environment with distributed teams • Customer-driven attitude with high expectations for yourself and those around you.

🏖️ Benefits

• comprehensive and inclusive benefits tailored to each country where we operate • healthcare • dental • mental health support • parental planning resources • retirement savings options • generous paid time off