Senior Planning & Operations Specialist

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🏛️ District of Columbia – Remote

🏛️ District of Columbia – Remote

💵 $78k - $88k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⚙️ Operations

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Great Minds

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2007

📚 Education

Education

Great Minds is an educational company dedicated to developing high-quality instructional materials for students and teachers. It offers comprehensive curricula in mathematics, English language arts, and science, designed to build deep and enduring knowledge. Great Minds' products, such as the Eureka Math², Wit & Wisdom, and PhD Science, aim to advance equity in classrooms by engaging all learners. The company supports educators with professional learning resources and customizable teaching materials that align with state standards and focus on building essential skills and knowledge. Great Minds is committed to making educational opportunities accessible to every student and provides resources to help educators tailor instruction to meet diverse classroom needs.

📋 Description

• Own end-to-end operational planning and execution for physical instructional manipulatives • Forecast manipulatives across adoption cycles, pilots, samples, and replenishment • Develop and maintain long-range capacity and inventory models • Communicate and monitor forecasts with vendors to ensure product availability • Partner with Sales and Marketing to assess component availability risk and mitigation strategies • Monitor safety stock, reserve inventory, obsolescence, and overall inventory health • Manage manufacturing and vendor relationships, including lead times, MOQs, cost controls, and quality standards • Work with Order Management and Customer Success to resolve fulfillment issues, shortages, and escalations • Serve as the primary operational point of contact for manipulative-related inquiries • Develop dashboards and reporting for inventory levels, forecast accuracy, fulfillment performance, and risk indicators • Identify process improvements to reduce cost, increase reliability, and improve cross-team visibility • Document and maintain SOPs for planning, inventory management, and fulfillment workflows • Coordinate RFP and RFQ processes with internal and external stakeholders • Report to the Senior Director, Strategic Operations and partner with Product, Marketing, Sales, ePMO, and external vendors

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in education space with extensive experience in operations, supply chain, planning, or production management • Experience managing physical products (print, kits, manipulatives, or educational materials) • Strong forecasting, analytical, and inventory planning skills • Proven ability to work cross-functionally with Sales, Marketing, Product, and Operations teams • Experience working with ERP and CRM systems (e.g., NetSuite, Salesforce) • Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate complex operational data into clear insights • Familiarity with adoption-driven demand cycles and back-to-school fulfillment • Experience managing 3PL relationships and overseas or domestic manufacturing vendors • Advanced Excel / data modeling skills; familiarity with BI tools a plus • Bachelor's degree in a related field • Cover letter and resume required • Successful completion of a background check required • Must be legally authorized to work in the United States