Job description

You have a knack for supply chain management and analyzing demand and production forecast performance, identify root causes for variations, and drive improvements in forecasting model(s). You thrive in ambiguity, it gives you an opportunity to create structure, information and a plan for your colleagues to execute on. That’s why you’re also not afraid to approach your colleagues to ask critical question, gather information for your models, and frequently review the inventory planning.

Your responsibilities range from, but not limited to, analyzing demand, trends, historical data, to successfully execute on demand forecasting, creating a production plan, and its corresponding semi-finished inventory requirements.

You’re reviewing Wooting live inventory and demand forecast overview, and see that there was a large gap in expected versus real sales. You dig into the sales reports, and inquiry sales and marketing to explain the shift. Was there a delay in the demand, or a shrink in the demand, or something that caused a hiccup? With new information gathered from the report and feedback from sales and marketing, you update the future expected demand.

The updated demand has a major shrink in future demand, when discussing the inventory forecast with your colleagues, you decide to slow down production to shrink inventory numbers. You jump into the production planning and modify the forecasted purchasing plan. You need to pull the alarm bell, the shrink requirement is great, but productions are fixed for the next 3 month. You can’t modify the plans until the 4th month.

You involve the vendor project manager to find a creative solution, perhaps we can ask the supplier to hold on inventory and use it for the 4th month demand, or the vendor hasn’t completed purchasing the required semi-finished parts.

You publish the new month forecast that reaches up to the 6th month in the future to our vendor coupled with the agreed proposal from you vendor project manager.

The major shrink, also affected some of the required semi-finished goods we purchase on consignment to the vendor. There’ll be an overage, and we need to inform the semi-finished goods suppliers to shift deliveries and adjust our future demand.

You enjoy the dynamics and challenging environment of supply chain management, it’s a real life game that you enjoy playing on a daily basis.

About Wooting

Wooting is a young, growing company made of passionate people that make disruptive products for the gaming industry. Our tight-knit team doesn’t operate like most companies: we value the perspectives and opinions that individuals at all levels can offer our business. With that, we expect that each and every person strives to make meaningful contributions, not just in their specific role, but across the business.

Remote work

The entire team works remote from home, (shared) workspace, a cafe, or a combination. There is a small office in the Netherlands, an office in Taichung, and Taipei Taiwan. Office time is not mandatory, instead it’s a place for collaboration, focus, and equipment to help you get the job done.

The Wooting team is primarily located in the Netherlands consisting of customer service, software developers, and marketing. The second largest concentration of the the team is located in Taiwan consisting product development and customer service. The CCO is currently located in the Netherlands, CTO in Vietnam, and CEO in Taiwan. There are also colleagues in Canada, Denmark, United Kingdom, and Norway.

We communicate entirely in English.

Relevant tools we use:

• Virtual office for voice communication on Gather
• General and project communications on Slack
• Company Wiki, Project- and task management on Notion
• Email, cloud storage, and calendar with Google Workspace
• Lots of spreadsheets with Google sheets
• Order and stock management with Shopify, Orderdesk & in-house built software

Job details

• Demand Forecasting & Analytics:
  • Forecasts demand using sales data, stock levels, analyzing purchasing patterns, and optimizes inventory control methodologies to improve operational efficiency and cost management in collaboration with your operational colleagues on a bi-weekly basis.
• Production Planning
  • Analyze production capacity and sales data to forecast production needs.
  • Develop and implement production plans to meet forecasted requirements.
  • Coordinate with operations and product development teams to ensure timely and efficient manufacturing.
  • Adjust production plans based on changes in demand and supply chain dynamics.
• Semi-finished inventory control
  • Create and implement plans to replenish semi-finished inventory, ensuring optimal stock levels to avoid overstocking or shortage.
  • Continuously track inventory turnover and production output, adjusting plans as necessary to accommodate changes in demand, production delays, or material shortages.
• Production Operations & Problem Resolution:
  • Proactively identifying and resolving production delays, disruptions, and bottlenecks with your colleagues in operations and product development, ensuring timely updates to stakeholders and all relevant systems.

Skills required

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree.
• Minimal 3 years of working experience within relatable field.
• Experience using Google sheets (or Excel) to solve problems, answer questions, or read data using formulas.
• Comprehensive understanding of S&OP (Sales and Operations Planning)
• You are an independent problem solver.
• English: Intermediate fluency (You can comfortably express yourself in English)

Optional skills:

• Familiar with python or similar to create demand forecast models
• Familiar with consumer electronic products.
• Past experience at OEM factory

Expectations

• Team communication, be critical - Don’t make assumptions, question every detail, and be to the point.
• Pro-active approach. Be ahead of potential issues and prepare for the worst-case scenario.
• Capable to work independently and take responsibility for the work you take on.
• Detail-oriented, you take the time to double check everything before executing.

Remote work/Geographical

• Located anywhere in Taiwan
• Informal working environment.
• Freely choose to work from home or office in: Taichung or Taipei.
• Your working hours are flexible but require at least 2-4 hours of overlap with your team. There are 2 mandatory slots on Tuesday and Thursdays for team gatherings.

What is in it for you?

• Full-time position (40 hours)
• Monthly starting salary of NTD$70~90k based on experience.
  • Local contract with health benefits and insurance.
  • Additional profit sharing bonus of 8% on year gross salary
• Budget for purchasing office equipment
• Budget for working outside of home or office, such as coffee shops.
• 20 paid holidays per year excluding the Taiwan National Holidays
• In communication with team and your own ability to keep up with work, you can freely arrange days off.

How to apply

Please fill in the form below. For the cover/motivation letter, please answer these two questions:

1. What makes you interested in working at Wooting?
2. Can you share one recent project that you are proud of? This can be a work or hobby project.

Any application that doesn't answer the above two questions will be automatically rejected.