Senior Inventory & Capacity Planner

Alpinestars is the leading global performance motorsports apparel, protection and footwear manufacturer. For over 60 years the company has been providing the world’s best athletes and motorsports enthusiasts in the pursuit of performance excellence with the most technologically advanced products which fuse protection, performance, innovation and style.

Thanks to the outstanding quality and continuous innovation of our products, we are currently going through a solid expansion phase on the global market, for which we aim to reinforce our strongly international teams with top talent from anywhere in the world.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Inventory & Capacity Planner to join our Planning Department, where you will be instrumental in optimising our global inventory, efficiently balancing service level targets, budget constraints, suppliers’ capacity, and operational constraints so to shape a streamlined and effective inventory management process.

Responsibilities:

• 6-month capacity plan – You will build and own the 6-month rolling capacity plan, making sure that it aligns unconstrained demand with supplier capacity. You will take the decision to re-phase, advance or delay demand to ensure a stable schedule that meets service level targets.

• Be an enabler – You will identify bottlenecks, challenge the demand, report on capacity utilisation, select the least-cost, least-risk solution (considering MOQs, lead times, tooling and seasonality), and implement continuous improvements to reduce wasted capacity.

• Leveraging your expertise, you will play a key role in anticipating future constraints, providing capacity forecasts (beyond 6 months) that support product launches and growth across all categories. You will provide key inputs to Alpinestars’ sourcing decisions.

• You will own European inventory planning and budget alignment, developing and maintaining inventory plans across product lines, optimising the inventory budget, and actively prioritising stock build-ups against commercial objectives.

• You will actively manage aged and obsolete inventory — You will implement reduction plans, coordinate clearance actions, ensuring aging risk is addressed before stock becomes dead.

• You will act as a critical link between Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Procurement, and external suppliers - You will set priorities and drive cross-functional decisions, acting as the person others depend on to make the call and deliver.

Qualifications:

• A minimum of 5 years’ experience in inventory and / or capacity planning within an international environment.
• Strong know-how in managing complex SKU portfolios with high variability in demand as well as in supply constraints.
• Expert-level knowledge of inventory optimisation techniques, capacity planning logic and supply chain best practices.
• Strong data analysis and KPI reporting skills including service level by ABC classification, capacity usage percentage vs. plan, etc.
• Previous working experience with ERP systems such as AS400, SO99+, Microsoft Dynamics (preferred) as well as proficiency with BI tools.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel.
• Strong communication skills, the ability to influence and to challenge assumptions so to drive cross-functional discussions will be a must-have in this role.
• A proactive approach and innovative mindset ready to propose alternative and measurable solutions, as well as the ability to take ownership of changes implementation will also be necessary.
• Fluency in English.

Other Information:

Job Location: Asolo (TV)