Materials Planner

About the role

The materials planner works cross-functionally with procurement, production, supply chain team members, and other internal teams to ensure the right raw material supply plans are in place and executed as planned. This role requires a detail-oriented, analytical, and proactive professional who can help drive decisions to improve key performance indicators (KPIs). This role will report to the Material Planning Manager.

Responsibilities

• Ensure current business is delivered to customers on time.
• Monitor stock positions, safety stock levels, and expiration risks for raw materials and finished goods.
• Set safety stock levels.
• Work with Procurement to proactively identify and communicate potential risk materials, define recovery plans, and drive action to resolve.
• Partner with demand planning to deliver new business.
• Identify potential raw material issues based on new and updated demand forecasts.
• Define actions to mitigate risk and drive actions (including with partner functions) to manage.
• Partner with category management for seasonal raw material supply planning.
• Analyze, track, and report on key performance indicators (KPIs) such as on-time delivery to customers, inventory turns, and frequent problem materials.
• Participate in projects to improve processes, service levels, efficiency, inventory, space, and cost.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in operations, business administration (operations focused), supply chain, or similar degree is required.
• Experience working within ERP systems is preferred, particularly SAP knowledge.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to translate data to drive decisions.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work cross-functionally.
• Demonstrated ability to use Excel to organize, analyze, and interpret large datasets, and identify trends to support operational decision-making.

Schedule

The opportunity will be based on-site in Sharonville, OH with the opportunity to move to hybrid (4 days in the office) once training is complete (potentially after 1 year).

Benefits

• Opportunity to develop your career on a global stage.
• Continuous learning through an on-demand learning platform.
• Competitive compensation package including staff discounts.
• Generous family leave policy.
• Health & dental plan.
• Competitive salary.

About Glanbia

Glanbia is a better nutrition company with three divisions: Performance Nutrition, Health & Nutrition, and Dairy Nutrition. Collectively and with our partners, we offer an incredible breadth of expertise in nutrition. We employ a team of 5,800 people, work with global food and beverage companies, and sell our award-winning and market-leading brands and ingredients in more than 100 countries worldwide.

At Glanbia, we celebrate diversity, because we know that our individual strengths make us stronger together. We welcome and encourage interest from a variety of candidates, giving your application consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status. Our culture celebrates individuality, knowing that together we are more.