Job Title: Demand Planning Specialist
Location: Rockford, TN
Employment Type: Contract (3 months)
Industry: Manufacturing
Compensation: $22.85 - $30.71 /hr.
Schedule: 40 hrs/Week. - (1
st shift)
About the Opportunity:
- Completes regular forecasting and planning for several relevant indicators (turnover, production, inventories, changes in inventory, capital expenditure requirements, employee capacities).
- Analyzes, controls, and reports on relevant KPI (productivity, profitability, capital tie-up, assets), detects and evaluates plan deviations, and derives recommendations for respective remedial measures.
- Performs qualified cost-and-profitability analyses for specific business cases (product launches, relocations, review of vertical range of manufacturing) to prepare respective alternative decisions.
- Develops supplier forecasts and determines logistical processes with suppliers.
- Introduces and implements logistical requirements regarding material provision and delivery, as well as material phase-in/out in the PLM process.
Why You'll Love Working Here:
- Supportive, team-driven culture that values collaboration, transparency, and accountability.
- Opportunity to grow your career with a global workforce solutions leader serving multiple industries.
- People-first environment that encourages employees to bring their authentic selves to work.
- Strong focus on partnership, innovation, and delivering meaningful results for clients and candidates.
Why This Opportunity is Exciting:
This role offers the opportunity to join a company that prioritizes both people and performance-where your contributions directly impact client success while providing you with room to grow and develop professionally.
About Acara Solutions
Acara is a premier recruiting and workforce solutions provider- we help companies compete for talent. With experience across industries worldwide, we partner with clients, listen to their needs, and design talent solutions that deliver the business outcomes they want. We draw on decades of experience to provide contingent staffing, direct placement, executive search, and workforce services worldwide.
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What You'll Do:
- Plans and controls assigned inventories and stocks (supply level, planning adjustments), analyzes inventory changes, and develops measures for inventory reduction.
- Analyzes and controls logistical processes (Cycle Time, First Pass Yield, On-time delivery, KPI of effectiveness, productivity), to detect process weaknesses and to start process improvements.
- Maintains a network and cooperates with all involved stakeholders in the respective processes.
- Needs professional technological, economic, or scientific know-how, methods, tools, and principles, and applies to differing and variable situations.
- Needs to solve assigned, non-routine tasks, to contribute to projects or assignments, or to support development of guidelines, methods, tools, or business processes.
- These positions are expected to contribute to and deliver business processes or detailed technology solutions in a self-managed and target-oriented manner, and thus contribute to team results.
- Position focusing on analyzing, developing, testing, or implementing processes, technologies, and systems in their specific field of expertise, from first principles.
- Targets are short to medium term (best to be characterized as milestones), and achievements are monitored.
- They provide functional advice to and integrate the services of operational staff or semi-professional colleagues.
- Develops basic business understanding.
- Contributes to team effort, awareness of expected value added.
- Improve processes, business methods, or technical components.
What You'll Bring:
- High School Diploma or GED.
- 2+ years of experience in logistics, supply chain planning, and operations analysis.
What Sets You Apart:
- Master Entry.
- Good knowledge in a technical field or business method, including the basic theoretical background.
Additional Information:
- Upon offer of employment, the individual will be subject to a background check.
After you apply, you may receive a call or message from our AI Talent Scout about this role or other opportunities that match your skills and preferences.
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Aleron companies (Acara Solutions, Aleron Shared Resources, Broadleaf Results, Lume Strategies, TalentRise, Viaduct) are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Race/Color/Gender/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Veteran.
Applicants for this position must be legally authorized to work in the United States. This position does not meet the employment requirements for individuals with F-1 OPT STEM work authorization status.
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Aleron
Jun 08, 2026