Supply Chain Manager - AI Special Projects

Trope Research is hiring a Supply Chain Manager to help train and evaluate AI systems using expertise in supply chain planning. The role involves creating realistic planning scenarios, solving and reviewing tasks, and explaining the decisions and checks needed to complete work successfully.

Responsibilities:

• Create realistic tasks drawn from your experience forecasting demand, planning supply, setting inventory targets and coordinating materials or replenishment
• Solve tasks and review proposed solutions for accuracy, completeness and practical judgment
• Explain the records, decisions and checks needed to complete the work successfully, including how you would handle changes or exceptions

Requirements:

• 7+ years of hands-on experience as a Supply Chain Planner, Demand Planner, Supply Planner, Materials Planner, Inventory Planner, Replenishment Planner or Buyer/Planner, or in an equivalent role with comparable responsibilities
• Substantial responsibility for developing, maintaining or executing demand, supply, materials or inventory plans
• Your experience may include forecasting, material requirements planning (MRP), replenishment, supplier schedules, inventory targets or balancing demand with supply and capacity. You do not need experience in every area listed
• Confidence working with planning systems, ERP records, forecasts or spreadsheets to complete and check your work
• Ability to explain your decisions clearly and assess whether a proposed solution would work in practice
• We are unable to support H-1B or STEM OPT candidates at this time
• this role requires you to be based in the United States
• Hands-on experience using ERP systems such as SAP, Microsoft Dynamics or Oracle NetSuite is a plus
• Hands-on working use of large language models in your professional work, and the judgment to tell a well-reasoned answer from a plausible-sounding wrong one