Job Description

The Supply Chain Demand Planner is responsible for balancing supply, demand, and inventory across an assigned product portfolio. This role partners closely with suppliers and cross-functional teams to maintain supply continuity, optimize inventory, manage product transitions, and proactively address risks that could impact customer service.

The role also drives planning excellence through data analysis, standard work, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

As a Supply Chain Demand Planner, you will be responsible for the following:

• Supply & Demand Planning: Manage assigned SKU portfolios, forecasts, inventory, backlog, shortages, and supply risks.
• Supplier Management: Partner with suppliers to maintain supply continuity and resolve constraints and critical shortages.
• Inventory Management: Drive actions to achieve inventory targets and reduce excess, obsolete, slow-moving, and aging inventory.
• Procurement & Cost Optimization: Partner with Procurement/Sourcing on supplier management, sourcing initiatives, cost savings, and supply optimization.
• Purchase Execution: Place and manage purchase orders and internal requisitions to support supply requirements.
• NPI & Lifecycle Management: Coordinate new product introductions and product transitions, including phase-in/phase-out planning and inventory risk management.
• Planning Excellence: Improve planning processes, standard work, reporting, KPIs, and organizational consistency.
• Continuous Improvement: Lead and support improvement initiatives using Fortive Business System (FBS) tools and structured problem-solving methods.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Operations, Procurement, Finance, Product Management, Demand Planning, and other stakeholders to address supply, inventory, and customer-service risks.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Operations, Business, or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience in supply/demand planning, purchasing, materials, or inventory management.
• Strong knowledge of supply chain planning, material flow, inventory, backlog management, and supply-demand balancing.
• Proficiency in UBI, Power BI, Power Query, and Excel for data analysis and reporting.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and continuous improvement skills.
• Experience with E&O inventory, NPI/PLCM, and supplier management.
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects and competing priorities.
• Strong communication, teamwork, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Knowledge of Lean manufacturing and continuous improvement methodologies.

Fortive Corporation Overview

Fortive's essential technology makes the world safer and more productive. We accelerate transformation in high-impact fields like workplace safety, build environments, and healthcare.

We are a global industrial technology innovator with a startup spirit. Our forward-looking companies lead the way in healthcare sterilization, industrial safety, predictive maintenance, and other mission-critical solutions. We're a force for progress, working alongside our customers and partners to solve challenges on a global scale, from workplace safety in the most demanding conditions to advanced technologies that help providers focus on exceptional patient care.

We are a diverse team 10,000 strong, united by a dynamic, inclusive culture and energized by limitless learning and growth. We use the proven Fortive Business System (FBS) to accelerate our positive impact.

At Fortive, we believe in you. We believe in your potential—your ability to learn, grow, and make a difference.

At Fortive, we believe in us. We believe in the power of people working together to solve problems no one could solve alone.

At Fortive, we believe in growth. We're honest about what's working and what isn't, and we never stop improving and innovating.

Fortive: For you, for us, for growth.

About Fluke

Fluke is leading the world in creating software, test tools and technology that will support customers today and in the future. We are a customer-obsessed market leader with a strong reputation for reliability, quality and safety.A wholly owned subsidiary of Fortive Corporation (www.fortive.com), Fluke is a global corporation headquartered in the greater Seattle area. Driven by the successful Fortive Business System, Fluke offers the passion of a startup with the resources of a Fortune 500 company. We are focused on the growth of our individual employees, teams and the Fluke brand.

We Are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Fortive Corporation and all Fortive Companies are proud to be equal opportunity employers. We value and encourage diversity and solicit applications from all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or other characteristics protected by law. Fortive and all Fortive Companies are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. Individuals who need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment application process, please contact us at applyassistance@fortive.com.

Pay Range

The salary range for this position (in local currency) is 88,205 - 147,315.

Base pay offered may vary depending on various factors, including, but not limited to: job-related knowledge; skills; experience; and other eligibility factors such as geographic location. The Total Rewards package includes competitive base pay and an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and several programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work.