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Supply chain planning roles qualify for OPT work authorization, and many employers in manufacturing, retail, and logistics actively hire F-1 graduates. Most positions require a degree in supply chain management, industrial engineering, or operations. Your 12-month OPT window (36 months for STEM-eligible graduates) gives you real runway to prove yourself and secure H-1B visa sponsorship.
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Get Access To All JobsAt Niagara, we’re looking for Team Members who want to be part of achieving our mission to provide our customers the highest quality most affordable bottled water.
Consider applying here, if you want to:
- Work in an entrepreneurial and dynamic environment with a chance to make an impact.
- Develop lasting relationships with great people.
- Have the opportunity to build a satisfying career.
We offer competitive compensation and benefits packages for our Team Members.
Supply Chain Planning, Order Fulfillment Analyst II
The Order Fulfillment Analyst is responsible for the day-to-day execution of order fulfillment activities across the Beverage Supply Chain. This role ensures customer orders are supported through effective shortage resolution, inventory flow execution, transfer management, space management, and customer PO scheduling.
The Order Fulfillment Analyst works cross-functionally with Production Planning, Customer Service, Logistics, Plant Operations, and Warehouse teams to identify risks, resolve operational issues, and provide tactical direction that supports customer service and supply chain performance. This role requires a strong bias for action, effective communication, and the ability to quickly learn and adapt in a fast-paced, changing environment.
Essential Functions
Order Fulfillment Execution
- Executes daily order fulfillment activities while balancing customer service, inventory availability, transportation, production, and operational constraints.
- Resolves customer order shortages by identifying supply risks, evaluating available inventory, and coordinating actions across functional teams to minimize customer impact.
- Executes inventory flow plans to ensure product is positioned appropriately across the network to support customer demand.
- Creates, manages, and monitors inventory transfers, proactively addressing exceptions and working with Logistics, Plants, and Warehouses to drive timely execution.
- Develops and maintains space outlooks to identify current and upcoming capacity constraints across the network.
- Manages space exceptions by coordinating tactical actions with Planning, Logistics, Plant, and Warehouse teams to mitigate capacity risks.
- Executes customer PO scheduling activities based on customer requirements, inventory availability, and operational capabilities.
- Monitors operational exceptions and takes timely action to resolve issues or escalate risks when additional support is required.
Cross-Functional Execution & Collaboration
- Partners closely with Water Production Planning, Beverage Production Planning, Customer Service, Logistics Operations, Plant Operations, and Warehouse teams to coordinate daily order fulfillment activities.
- Serves as a key connection point across functional teams, ensuring priorities, risks, and required actions are clearly communicated.
- Leads weekly operational performance calls with Plant and Warehouse teams to review performance, identify execution gaps, and align on corrective actions.
- Provides tactical direction to cross-functional partners to support inventory movement, transfer execution, space management, and customer order fulfillment.
- Communicates emerging risks and operational constraints to appropriate stakeholders and escalates issues when necessary.
- Follows established processes, priorities, and strategic direction while applying sound judgment to day-to-day execution decisions.
Performance & Continuous Improvement
- Monitors key order fulfillment and execution metrics to identify performance gaps and areas requiring action.
- Uses data and operational insights to prioritize issues and support effective decision-making.
- Identifies recurring execution challenges and partners with leadership and cross-functional teams to improve processes and ways of working.
- Supports implementation and adoption of new processes, tools, reporting, and operational improvements.
- Maintains accurate and timely information to support visibility and decision-making across the Beverage Supply Chain.
Competencies
Nimble Learning
- Quickly learns new processes, systems, and business requirements and applies learnings to new or changing situations. Seeks feedback and uses both successes and challenges to continuously improve.
Follows Direction
- Understands and executes against established processes, priorities, and leadership direction. Demonstrates accountability for assigned responsibilities and appropriately escalates when additional guidance is required.
Action Oriented
- Takes on new opportunities and challenges with urgency, energy, and enthusiasm. Proactively identifies issues and takes appropriate action to move work forward.
Drives Results
- Consistently delivers results and follows through on commitments, even when faced with competing priorities, operational challenges, or changing business conditions.
Communicates Effectively
- Clearly communicates priorities, risks, actions, and expectations across multiple functions and levels of the organization. Provides appropriate context and ensures stakeholders understand required next steps.
Collaborates
- Builds effective partnerships across Planning, Customer Service, Logistics, Plant Operations, and Warehousing to solve problems and achieve shared supply chain objectives.
Qualifications
- Required Qualifications:
- 2 Years – Experience in Operations/Business Development Field
- 2 Years – Experience in Position
-
0 Years – Experience managing projects
-
Preferred Qualifications:
- 4 Years – Experience in Operations/Business Development Field
- 4 Years – Experience working in Position
- 0 Years – Experience managing projects
This position embodies the values of Niagara’s LIFE competency model, focusing on the following key drivers of success:
- Lead Like an Owner
- Makes safety the number one priority
- Keeps alert for safety issues and escalates immediately
- Effectively prioritizes tasks based on department goals
- Shows respect to others and confronts interpersonal issues directly
- Prioritizes resolution of customer issues effectively
- Responds promptly and honors commitments to internal and external customers
- InnovACT
- Makes recommendations to continuously improve policies, methods, procedures, and/or products
- Demonstrates adaptability by reacting appropriately to unexpected changes in situations or circumstances
- Increases performance through greater efficiency
- Find a Way
- Seeks to develop technical knowledge through learning from other experts
- Understands interdepartmental impact of individual decisions and actions
- Seeks solutions rather than placing blame
- Empowered to be Great
- Consistently looks for ways to improve one’s self through growth and development opportunities
- Communicates clearly and promptly up, down, and across
- Communicates effectively to manage expectations
Education
- Minimum Required:
- Associate's Degree in Business, Operations, Strategy, and other related fields or equivalent experience
- Preferred:
- Bachelor's Degree in Business, Operations or Strategy
Certification/License:
- Required: N/A
- Preferred: N/A
Foreign Language
- Required: None Required
- Preferred: None Required
Typical Compensation Range
Pay Rate Type: Salary
$82,011.54 - $118,916.74 / Yearly
Benefits
Our Total Rewards package is thoughtfully designed to support both you and your family:
Regular full-time team members are offered a comprehensive benefits package, while part-time, intern, and seasonal team members are offered a limited benefits package.
- Paid Time Off for holidays, sick time, and vacation time
- Paid parental and caregiver leaves
- Medical, including virtual care options
- Dental
- Vision
- 401(k) with company match
- Health Savings Account with company match
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Expanded mental wellbeing benefits including free counseling sessions for all team members and household family members
- Family Building Benefits including enhanced fertility benefits for IVF and fertility preservation plus adoption, surrogacy, and Doula reimbursements
- Income protection including Life and AD&D, short and long-term disability, critical illness and an accident plan
- Special discount programs including pet plans, pre-paid legal services, identity theft, car rental, airport parking, etc.
- Tuition reimbursement, college savings plan and scholarship opportunities
- And more!
Los Angeles County applicants only Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the California Fair Chance Act, and any other applicable local and state laws.
Any employment agency, person or entity that submits a résumé into this career site or to a hiring manager does so with the understanding that the applicant's résumé will become the property of Niagara Bottling, LLC. Niagara Bottling, LLC will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency, person or entity.
Employment agencies that have fee agreements with Niagara Bottling, LLC and have been engaged on a search shall submit résumé to the designated Niagara Bottling, LLC recruiter or, upon authorization, submit résumé into this career site to be eligible for placement fees.
Niagara Plant Name
CORP-MAIN
At Niagara, we’re looking for Team Members who want to be part of achieving our mission to provide our customers the highest quality most affordable bottled water.
Consider applying here, if you want to:
- Work in an entrepreneurial and dynamic environment with a chance to make an impact.
- Develop lasting relationships with great people.
- Have the opportunity to build a satisfying career.
We offer competitive compensation and benefits packages for our Team Members.
Supply Chain Planning, Order Fulfillment Analyst II
The Order Fulfillment Analyst is responsible for the day-to-day execution of order fulfillment activities across the Beverage Supply Chain. This role ensures customer orders are supported through effective shortage resolution, inventory flow execution, transfer management, space management, and customer PO scheduling.
The Order Fulfillment Analyst works cross-functionally with Production Planning, Customer Service, Logistics, Plant Operations, and Warehouse teams to identify risks, resolve operational issues, and provide tactical direction that supports customer service and supply chain performance. This role requires a strong bias for action, effective communication, and the ability to quickly learn and adapt in a fast-paced, changing environment.
Essential Functions
Order Fulfillment Execution
- Executes daily order fulfillment activities while balancing customer service, inventory availability, transportation, production, and operational constraints.
- Resolves customer order shortages by identifying supply risks, evaluating available inventory, and coordinating actions across functional teams to minimize customer impact.
- Executes inventory flow plans to ensure product is positioned appropriately across the network to support customer demand.
- Creates, manages, and monitors inventory transfers, proactively addressing exceptions and working with Logistics, Plants, and Warehouses to drive timely execution.
- Develops and maintains space outlooks to identify current and upcoming capacity constraints across the network.
- Manages space exceptions by coordinating tactical actions with Planning, Logistics, Plant, and Warehouse teams to mitigate capacity risks.
- Executes customer PO scheduling activities based on customer requirements, inventory availability, and operational capabilities.
- Monitors operational exceptions and takes timely action to resolve issues or escalate risks when additional support is required.
Cross-Functional Execution & Collaboration
- Partners closely with Water Production Planning, Beverage Production Planning, Customer Service, Logistics Operations, Plant Operations, and Warehouse teams to coordinate daily order fulfillment activities.
- Serves as a key connection point across functional teams, ensuring priorities, risks, and required actions are clearly communicated.
- Leads weekly operational performance calls with Plant and Warehouse teams to review performance, identify execution gaps, and align on corrective actions.
- Provides tactical direction to cross-functional partners to support inventory movement, transfer execution, space management, and customer order fulfillment.
- Communicates emerging risks and operational constraints to appropriate stakeholders and escalates issues when necessary.
- Follows established processes, priorities, and strategic direction while applying sound judgment to day-to-day execution decisions.
Performance & Continuous Improvement
- Monitors key order fulfillment and execution metrics to identify performance gaps and areas requiring action.
- Uses data and operational insights to prioritize issues and support effective decision-making.
- Identifies recurring execution challenges and partners with leadership and cross-functional teams to improve processes and ways of working.
- Supports implementation and adoption of new processes, tools, reporting, and operational improvements.
- Maintains accurate and timely information to support visibility and decision-making across the Beverage Supply Chain.
Competencies
Nimble Learning
- Quickly learns new processes, systems, and business requirements and applies learnings to new or changing situations. Seeks feedback and uses both successes and challenges to continuously improve.
Follows Direction
- Understands and executes against established processes, priorities, and leadership direction. Demonstrates accountability for assigned responsibilities and appropriately escalates when additional guidance is required.
Action Oriented
- Takes on new opportunities and challenges with urgency, energy, and enthusiasm. Proactively identifies issues and takes appropriate action to move work forward.
Drives Results
- Consistently delivers results and follows through on commitments, even when faced with competing priorities, operational challenges, or changing business conditions.
Communicates Effectively
- Clearly communicates priorities, risks, actions, and expectations across multiple functions and levels of the organization. Provides appropriate context and ensures stakeholders understand required next steps.
Collaborates
- Builds effective partnerships across Planning, Customer Service, Logistics, Plant Operations, and Warehousing to solve problems and achieve shared supply chain objectives.
Qualifications
- Required Qualifications:
- 2 Years – Experience in Operations/Business Development Field
- 2 Years – Experience in Position
-
0 Years – Experience managing projects
-
Preferred Qualifications:
- 4 Years – Experience in Operations/Business Development Field
- 4 Years – Experience working in Position
- 0 Years – Experience managing projects
This position embodies the values of Niagara’s LIFE competency model, focusing on the following key drivers of success:
- Lead Like an Owner
- Makes safety the number one priority
- Keeps alert for safety issues and escalates immediately
- Effectively prioritizes tasks based on department goals
- Shows respect to others and confronts interpersonal issues directly
- Prioritizes resolution of customer issues effectively
- Responds promptly and honors commitments to internal and external customers
- InnovACT
- Makes recommendations to continuously improve policies, methods, procedures, and/or products
- Demonstrates adaptability by reacting appropriately to unexpected changes in situations or circumstances
- Increases performance through greater efficiency
- Find a Way
- Seeks to develop technical knowledge through learning from other experts
- Understands interdepartmental impact of individual decisions and actions
- Seeks solutions rather than placing blame
- Empowered to be Great
- Consistently looks for ways to improve one’s self through growth and development opportunities
- Communicates clearly and promptly up, down, and across
- Communicates effectively to manage expectations
Education
- Minimum Required:
- Associate's Degree in Business, Operations, Strategy, and other related fields or equivalent experience
- Preferred:
- Bachelor's Degree in Business, Operations or Strategy
Certification/License:
- Required: N/A
- Preferred: N/A
Foreign Language
- Required: None Required
- Preferred: None Required
Typical Compensation Range
Pay Rate Type: Salary
$82,011.54 - $118,916.74 / Yearly
Benefits
Our Total Rewards package is thoughtfully designed to support both you and your family:
Regular full-time team members are offered a comprehensive benefits package, while part-time, intern, and seasonal team members are offered a limited benefits package.
- Paid Time Off for holidays, sick time, and vacation time
- Paid parental and caregiver leaves
- Medical, including virtual care options
- Dental
- Vision
- 401(k) with company match
- Health Savings Account with company match
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Expanded mental wellbeing benefits including free counseling sessions for all team members and household family members
- Family Building Benefits including enhanced fertility benefits for IVF and fertility preservation plus adoption, surrogacy, and Doula reimbursements
- Income protection including Life and AD&D, short and long-term disability, critical illness and an accident plan
- Special discount programs including pet plans, pre-paid legal services, identity theft, car rental, airport parking, etc.
- Tuition reimbursement, college savings plan and scholarship opportunities
- And more!
Los Angeles County applicants only Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the California Fair Chance Act, and any other applicable local and state laws.
Any employment agency, person or entity that submits a résumé into this career site or to a hiring manager does so with the understanding that the applicant's résumé will become the property of Niagara Bottling, LLC. Niagara Bottling, LLC will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency, person or entity.
Employment agencies that have fee agreements with Niagara Bottling, LLC and have been engaged on a search shall submit résumé to the designated Niagara Bottling, LLC recruiter or, upon authorization, submit résumé into this career site to be eligible for placement fees.
Niagara Plant Name
CORP-MAIN
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding OPT Sponsorship in Supply Chain Planning
Target STEM-designated programs
Supply chain and operations management degrees from USCIS-recognized STEM programs qualify for the 24-month STEM OPT extension. Confirm your degree's CIP code with your DSO before applying, as this nearly triples your authorized work window.
Focus on employers with H-1B filing history
Large manufacturers, retailers, and logistics companies file H-1B visa petitions regularly. Prioritize companies with established HR infrastructure and immigration support teams, as they understand the sponsorship process and are far less likely to back out when your OPT expires.
Emphasize quantifiable impact from day one
Sponsorship decisions often hinge on demonstrated value. Track metrics like forecast accuracy improvements, inventory reduction percentages, or cost savings from your planning work. Concrete numbers make the business case for sponsoring you significantly easier to justify internally.
Understand your OPT reporting obligations
You must report employer changes, address updates, and unemployment gaps to your DSO within 10 days. Supply chain roles sometimes involve project-based work or short contracts, so staying compliant during transitions protects your status and your future sponsorship eligibility.
Get ERP and planning software certifications
Certifications in SAP, Oracle, or supply chain planning tools like Kinaxis and o9 signal specialized expertise employers struggle to hire for. These credentials strengthen your H-1B specialty occupation case and differentiate you in competitive applicant pools during the annual lottery cycle.
Bring up sponsorship after an offer, not before
Raising visa sponsorship too early in interviews can derail otherwise strong candidacies. Wait until you have a verbal offer, then address OPT work authorization clearly and calmly. Most employers in supply chain are familiar with OPT and treat it as a standard hiring consideration.
Supply Chain Planning OPT: Frequently Asked Questions
Do supply chain planning jobs qualify for STEM OPT extension?
Most supply chain planning roles do qualify for the 24-month STEM OPT extension, but eligibility depends on your degree, not your job title. Degrees in supply chain management, industrial engineering, operations research, and logistics are commonly STEM-designated. Confirm your degree's CIP code with your DSO, and verify your employer can fulfill the formal I-983 training plan requirement before accepting an offer.
How do I find supply chain planning employers who sponsor OPT students?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for F-1 OPT students and filters supply chain planning jobs by sponsorship willingness, so you're not wasting applications on employers who won't consider visa holders. Beyond the job board, focus on larger companies in manufacturing, retail, and third-party logistics, where dedicated HR teams and repeat H-1B filings signal genuine sponsorship infrastructure.
Is supply chain planning considered a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Supply chain planning generally qualifies as a specialty occupation when the role requires a bachelor's degree or higher in a specific field like supply chain management, industrial engineering, or operations research. Roles involving demand forecasting, inventory optimization, or S&OP processes typically meet this threshold. Avoid applying to positions where the job description accepts any degree field, as this weakens the specialty occupation argument considerably.
Can I work as a supply chain planning contractor on OPT?
Yes, but with important caveats. OPT allows contract and consulting work as long as the work is directly related to your degree field and you work at least 20 hours per week. Self-employment through your own business entity also counts. However, you must still report each engagement to your DSO, and gaps between contracts count against your 90-day unemployment limit.
What happens to my OPT if my supply chain employer is acquired or restructures?
A merger, acquisition, or internal restructuring does not automatically invalidate your OPT, but you must report the employer change to your DSO within 10 days. If your job title or department changes significantly, confirm the new role still aligns with your degree field. For STEM OPT holders, major employer changes also require an updated I-983 training plan reflecting the new organizational structure.