Staff Supply Planner

At LinkedIn our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture connection clarity and the evolving needs of our business. The work location of this role is hybrid meaning it will be performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days as determined by the business needs of the team.

This role will be hybrid in LinkedIns Mountain View CA campus.

At LinkedIn were hiring a Staff Supply Planner for planning and spend management function for our engineering infrastructure. This is a great opportunity to join a globally recognized company experiencing significant growth and help contribute to the vision of creating economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. With our successful core product offerings and expanding portfolio of innovative new products and features our need for highly talented professionals has never been greater!

The successful candidate will help the Infrastructure Business Engineering team gather analyze and organize information in effort to continuously identify ways to improve Linkedins bottom line. They will help manage the budget track industry and competitive trends develop forecasting models and scenario analysis examine performance spot opportunities identify threats look for novel solutions and develop creative action plans within Engineering. The candidate will focus on both long-term decisions and the prioritization of short-term actions.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with leadership to provide business solutions that enable scalable and cost-effective growth of LinkedIns global infrastructure
• Developing and maintaining detailed supply chain metrics and performance reports to identify areas for improvement and enhance operational efficiency.
• Collaborating with project managers procurement teams and engineering staff to align supply planning processes with broader project objectives and timelines.
• Forecasting demand for infrastructure materials and services by analyzing project timelines historical data and upcoming requirements to ensure supply meets project needs.
• Managing inventory levels to maintain optimal stock while minimizing excess and obsolescence ensuring availability of critical components without overstocking.
• Proactively engage service owners to identify business needs and build business plans and cost models to understand financial impact and aid decision making
• Help develop budget plans in partnership with FP&A and engineering managers
• Partner with leaders to develop deep understanding of their technologies and business operations needs
• Lead optimization initiatives proactively supporting leaders in making optimized service total cost of ownership decisions
• Drive transformational change to the way we manage business operations at LinkedIn through developing and implementing new solutions systems processes and tools that focus on identifying and executing on cost optimization opportunities
• Design develop and deploy operating framework to manage infrastructure business operations including all aspects of budget management with regular performance reviews
• Lead monthly budget review process collaborating with leadership to draw insights and develop appropriate action plans to meet budget targets Refine and manage business operations metrics
• Integrate budget with procure-to-pay processes and systems to ensure all purchases and payments link to plans providing systematic way of cost transparency through automation

Qualifications :

Basic Qualifications:

• B.S./B.A. in Engineering Computer Science Information Systems or business field or equivalent practical experience
• 5 years of experience implementing and/or managing business operations solutions and projects in global infrastructure industry
• 3 years of experience in management consulting business strategy financial planning & analysis and/or budget management related to infrastructure operations

Preferred Qualifications:

• MBA or Masters degree in Engineering
• Track record of exhibiting end-to-end ownership and efficient problem solving
• Demonstrated ability to lead project teams influence peers senior management and stakeholders and deliver results in a cross functional environment
• Proven track record of executing under tight deadlines and ensuring deliverable timelines are met
• Working knowledge of financial concepts such as capital & operational expenses depreciation & amortization accrual fixed assets cost center chart of accounts etc.
• Demonstrated technical understanding of infrastructure technologies such as datacenter network system storage voice & video end-user computing and enterprise IT systems
• General knowledge of procure-to-pay process purchase requisition & order pricing & quotes invoice & payments
• Strong analytical organizational and written/verbal communication skills

Suggested Skills:

• Infrastructure Spend Management
• Infrastructure Budget Management
• Financial Planning
• Supply Planning

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The pay range for this role is $133000 - $216000. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate including but not limited to skill set depth of experience certifications and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.

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Employment Type :

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