About the Job
At Halter, we’re on a mission to enable farmers and graziers to run the most productive and sustainable operations. Our customers are using Halter to break free from the time-intensive constraints of conventional practices. Imagine watching 500 cattle stand up and walk calmly towards their next break? No quad bikes,...
We’re backed to deliver on a mission that matters by Tier 1 investors including Founders Fund, Bessemer Venture Partners, BOND, DCVC, Blackbird, Promus Ventures, Rocket Lab’s Peter Beck and Icehouse ventures.
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Key Responsibilities
Getting the right components and materials to the right place at the right time is one of the most operationally critical things Halter does. Miss it and production output slips, customers wait, and the business pays for it.
As a Material Supply Planner, you’ll make sure that doesn’t happen. You’ll own supply for a defined set of components and suppliers, work closely with our suppliers and contract manufacturers to get results, and take on the persistent problems that put production at risk.
You’ll be deep in the details: turning demand into material requirements, placing and managing purchase orders, keeping inventory in healthy shape, and finding shortages well before they reach the production line. You’ll work alongside our Hardware operations teams, including Production and the wider Supply Chain team, bringing the supply view that keeps the plan honest and visible.
This is a hands-on role. You’ll pick up real projects from day one and deliver them, and as supply planning grows at Halter, there’s room to grow with it.
Run the supply plan for your components, turning demand forecasts and production requirements into material requirements at the right quantities and timing.
Place, manage and track purchase orders, making sure they’re confirmed, on schedule and flagged early when they’re at risk.
Run the clear-to-build check ahead of each production build, and lead the recovery when a shortage hits.
Build working relationships with the people who control outcomes at your suppliers and contract manufacturers, and use them to expedite and clear delays at the source.
Take on the persistent supplier problems in your area, such as the lead time that keeps slipping or the part that’s always the reason we’re short, and see them through to resolution.
Manage inventory for your components with enough cover to protect production without tying up cash, and keep the settings behind it current.
Plan the supply side of engineering changes and new product introductions, including cut-in timing, last-time buys and limiting write-offs.
Maintain the reporting that gives an honest view of supply health in your area: coverage, on-time delivery, supplier performance and inventory position.
Required Skills & Abilities
Supply or materials planning experience in a hardware or electronics manufacturing environment, including owning supply for a set of components or suppliers.
A strong grasp of material requirements planning, purchase order management, inventory control, and how demand turns into supply requirements.
Real experience working with a contract manufacturer. You know how factory scheduling works, what levers you have, and how to escalate when you need to.
Supplier relationships that hold up under pressure, built with planners and factory leads as well as account managers.
Sharp analytical skills. You’re fluent in the data behind a supply plan and comfortable building your own analysis.
Strong ownership and follow-through. You keep track of what matters and close things out.
Clear, direct communication, whether it’s a supply update for a senior stakeholder or an expedited request to a supplier.
Low ego and comfortable with hard conversations. You handle them with honesty and good judgement about when to escalate.
