Inventory Planner

About the role

Your Job Georgia-Pacific Packaging is hiring an Inventory Planner to ensure timely, cost-effective replenishment of containerboard roll stock to our corrugated plants. Your planning decisions directly affect plant uptime, freight efficiency, sourcing cost, and our ability to deliver sheets and boxes on time to customers.

Responsibilities

• Create and execute replenishment plans using our inventory management/ERP tools to meet demand while minimizing stockouts and excess inventory.
• Monitor daily inventory positions and proactively adjust plans for demand and supply changes; escalate risks and drive corrective actions.
• Lead weekly operations reviews with supported plants to confirm demand, resolve inventory issues, and assign action items.
• Cookware with mill production planning and transportation to align mill outbound and plant inbound schedules—balancing cost, service, and capacity constraints.
• Aprove warehousing/3PL invoices and resolve supplier billing discrepancies.
• Travel to mills and supported plants up to 5 times/year to build relationships, deepen operational knowledge, and drive improvements.
• Review and analyze key KPIs the company uses to track successful inventory planning.
• Cost management: recommend and implement optimal shipping mode and routing, select the most cost-effective supply source, and minimize demurrage/detention and freight related charges.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree + 1 year inventory/supply chain experience OR 5 years relevant experience in inventory/supply chain within a manufacturing environment
• Strong Excel skills (formulas, pivot tables, data analysis)
• Willingness to travel (up to 5 overnight trips/year)

Qualifications

• Experience working in the packaging industry (containerboard/corrugated)
• Experience with rail and truck logistics
• Experience using ERP system(s)
• Experience using Power BI

Skills

• Openly challenge the status quo
• Find new ways to create value
• Get rewarded for individual contributions

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts
• Life Insurance
• Disability
• Retail
• Retirement
• Paid Vacation/Time Off
• Education Assistance
• Infertility Assistance
• Paid Parental Leave
• Adoption Assistance

Pay

Specific compensation details are not specified in this posting. For more information, please refer to the Hiring Philosophy section.

Schedule

Details on the schedule are not specified in this posting. For more information, please refer to the Hiring Philosophy section.