Supply Chain Analyst

The Characteristics

• Agile: A device date slips a week. A factory loses two. A retail order comes in that nobody forecasted. You rework the schedule the same day, tell every team what changed for them, and the POs still go out.
• Analytical: You know where to find accurate landed costs and how to determine order quantities… and you know which of those two numbers you're less sure about. When you give an in-stock date, there's a model behind it.
• Collaborative: Marketing knows when, Industrial Design knows what, Finance knows how much, and our factories know how fast. You turn that into one schedule everyone can see, and when two of them conflict, you resolve it before anyone plans on the wrong number.
• Curious: You've asked our factories why the lead time is twelve weeks instead of six. You've traced a late shipment back to the packaging that held it up. You've tested whether ordering earlier actually helps or just ties up cash.
• Demanding: On time means on time. To spec means to spec. A supplier who misses either hears about it the same day, in writing, with the date you now need.
• Enthusiastic: You like the part of the job where every SKU is in stock on launch day and nobody outside your team knows how close it was.
• Innovative: When the same bottleneck shows up every launch, you change the order, the sequence, or the timing until the bottleneck disappears.
• Persistent: A rejected batch, a freight backlog, a packaging run that's a week behind the product it's meant to hold. Something always goes wrong, and you've already planned the recovery.
• Reliable: When you say a PO lands on the 14th, it lands on the 14th. When it won't, people hear it from you first, with the reason and the new date.

The Responsibilities and Qualifications

• Demand planning and replenishment: order quantities and reorder points by SKU, based on forecast, sell-through, and our factory lead time.
• The forecasting models, including the part where Marketing describes a launch or a campaign and you turn it into a number the company can build against.
• The purchase order window for every product: the ideal date to place it, the last date you still can, and the escalation when that window is about to close.
• Every PO from placement to our shelf, through factories, forwarders, and customs brokers in between.
• Production sequencing where products share tooling, so commitments are scheduled in priority order and ship dates reflect what our factory can actually do.
• Upkeep of Retail and OEM partner orders from PO to delivery, including the forecast and replenishment conversations with those partners, and the allocation call on what each commitment leaves for D2C.
• The launch workback schedule, adjusted as Industrial Design and Creative deliverables move, with a plan for recovering days when they move too far.
• Working directly with our factories: learning their constraints, communicating ours clearly in writing, and deciding what gets manufactured first when they can't do everything at once.
• Product, pricing, and order data in the ERP and supplier sheets, accurate enough that other teams act on it without checking.
• Reporting on inventory position, delivery performance, and supply risk, built for people who don't live in the data and need to make a decision quickly.
  

• A degree or diploma in Supply Chain, Business, or something adjacent.
• Three or more years in a supply chain or logistics analytics role.
• Expert-level in Excel and Google Sheets. You've built models and trackers that other teams rely on, and you know what happens when one of them breaks.
• Comfort inside an ERP. You don't need to have used ours.
• Clear written English & impeccable communication skills.
• The ability to hold a forecast, a PO status, and a launch date in your head at the same time and notice when one of them moves.
• Enough interest in phones, consoles, and the companies that make them to know a launch is coming before Marketing tells you.

The Moment of Truth

About
Company Information dbrand started in a Toronto basement on November 11, 2011. Today, we make skins, cases, screen protectors, and gaming accessories. A lot of people buy them.Most companies in our category grow by buying ads on Facebook. We've never really needed to. The biggest reviewers in tech have been covering our products for over a decade, since before most of them had an audience. The things we make and the things we post get shared without us asking. Between the two, our products end up in front of millions of people who were already paying attention, not millions who were interrupted by another ad on one of Zuckerberg’s platforms.Some of this sounds made up. Our timeline has the exhaustive record if you want it, but here's a small window into what fifteen years of building a culture looks like.In 2013, a college student named Marques Brownlee bought a skin from us. He's now the most-watched tech reviewer on earth. North of a decade later, we still make products together. When Sony threatened to sue us over a set of black PS5 panels, we shipped a redesign with their cease-and-desist letter molded on the inside of the new version. A four-word reply to a customer on Twitter hit the front page of Reddit, then did it again, and again, and again.The first time our products hit a physical retail shelf the entire nationwide stock sold out in three days. We're now the #1 seller across five categories in Best Buy. Twenty thousand people bought empty boxes from us on Boxing Day because we told them to. Strangers have our logo tattooed on them.We still don't know why.dbrand welcomes applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request at every stage of the hiring process. Employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit, performance, and business needs. We're an equal opportunity employer with zero tolerance for discrimination, and we expect everyone here to treat each other with respect.