Product Supply Operations Planner, Frozen

About the role

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How You'll Have Impact at Kinder's

Key Responsibilities of the Role Include:

• Assess short term inventory needs aligned to deliver metrics ensuring high levels of Customer Order fill rates coordinating with Contract manufacturers, Quality and Fulfilment teams.
• Facilitate collaboration meetings with stakeholders and vendors to review completed and scheduled production jobs and review any operational issues impacting short term production.
• Proactively identify and escalate issues that could jeopardize supply including raw material or packaging constraints, quality holds, production issues. Actively support the decision-making process to resolve these issues. Additionally, identify potential future capacity constraints and bottlenecks, and escalate material concerns.
• Collaborate with purchasing, planning, logistics/warehousing, and commercial teams to provide input on capacity planning assumptions and performance measures.
• Partner with cross functional teams to drive speed to market initiatives in the execution of new product launches, product change projects and demand shaping activities.
• Cook up start-ups and capacity enhancements for both short-term and long-term needs to ensure a phased scaling-up process.
• Avoid the status quo and adopt a continuous improvement mindset to enhance planning and operational processes.
• Data Analysis: Create, Review & Action against the Master Production Schedule for all Finished Good items.
• Reporting: Track and review Key Performance Indicators such as schedule adherence, attainment, inventory turns, customer service and days on hand and take appropriate action to meet or exceed targets.
• Review firm order demand, new sales or marketing demand and current levels of inventory to monitor emergent demand.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to drive speed to market initiatives in the execution of new product launches, product change projects and demand shaping activities.
• Coordinate Co-manufacturer start-ups and capacity enhancements for both short-term and long-term needs to ensure a phased scaling-up process.
• Avoid the status quo and adopt a continuous improvement mindset to enhance planning and operational processes.
• Data Analysis: Create, Review & Action against the Master Production Schedule for all Finished Good items.
• Reporting: Track and review Key Performance Indicators such as schedule adherence, attainment, inventory turns, customer service and days on hand and take appropriate action to meet or exceed targets.
• Review firm order demand, new sales or marketing demand and current levels of inventory to monitor emergent demand.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to drive speed to market initiatives in the execution of new product launches, product change projects and demand shaping activities.
• Coordinate Co-manufacturer start-ups and capacity enhancements for both short-term and long-term needs to ensure a phased scaling-up process.
• Avoid the status quo and adopt a continuous improvement mindset to enhance planning and operational processes.
• Data Analysis: Create, Review & Action against the Master Production Schedule for all Finished Good items.
• Reporting: Track and review Key Performance Indicators such as schedule adherence, attainment, inventory turns, customer service and days on hand and take appropriate action to meet or exceed targets.
• Review firm order demand, new sales or marketing demand and current levels of inventory to monitor emergent demand.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to drive speed to market initiatives in the execution of new product launches, product change projects and demand shaping activities.
• Coordinate Co-manufacturer start-ups and capacity enhancements for both short-term and long-term needs to ensure a phased scaling-up process.
• Avoid the status quo and adopt a continuous improvement mindset to enhance planning and operational processes.
• Data Analysis: Create, Review & Action against the Master Production Schedule for all Finished Good items.
• Reporting: Track and review Key Performance Indicators such as schedule adherence, attainment, inventory turns, customer service and days on hand and take appropriate action to meet or exceed targets.
• Review firm order demand, new sales or marketing demand and current levels of inventory to monitor emergent demand.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to drive speed to market initiatives in the execution of new product launches, product change projects and demand shaping activities.
• Coordinate Co-manufacturer start-ups and capacity enhancements for both short-term and long-term needs to ensure a phased scaling-up process.
• Avoid the status quo and adopt a continuous improvement mindset to enhance planning and operational processes.
• Data Analysis: Create, Review & Action against the Master Production Schedule for all Finished Good items.
• Reporting: Track and review Key Performance Indicators such as schedule adherence, attainment, inventory turns, customer service and days on hand and take appropriate action to meet or exceed targets.
• Review firm order demand, new sales or marketing demand and current levels of inventory to monitor emergent demand.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to drive speed to market initiatives in the execution of new product launches, product change projects and demand shaping activities.
• Coordinate Co-manufacturer start-ups and capacity enhancements for both short-term and long-term needs to ensure a phased scaling-up process.
• Avoid the status quo and adopt a continuous improvement mindset to enhance planning and operational processes.
• Data Analysis: Create, Review & Action against the Master Production Schedule for all Finished Good items.
• Reporting: Track and review Key Performance Indicators such as schedule adherence, attainment, inventory turns, customer service and days on hand and take appropriate action to meet or exceed targets.
• Review firm order demand, new sales or marketing demand and current levels of inventory to monitor emergent demand.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to drive speed to market initiatives in the execution of new product launches, product change projects and demand shaping activities.
• Coordinate Co-manufacturer start-ups and capacity enhancements for both short-term and long-term needs to ensure a phased scaling-up process.
• Avoid the status quo and adopt a continuous improvement mindset to enhance planning and operational processes.
• Data Analysis: Create, Review & Action against the Master Production Schedule for all Finished Good items.
• Reporting: Track and review Key Performance Indicators such as schedule adherence, attainment, inventory turns, customer service and days on hand and take appropriate action to meet or exceed targets.
• Review firm order demand, new sales or marketing demand and current levels of inventory to monitor emergent demand.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to drive speed to market initiatives in the execution of new product launches, product change projects and demand shaping activities.
• Coordinate Co-manufacturer start-ups and capacity enhancements for both short-term and long-term needs to ensure a phased scaling-up process.
• Avoid the status quo and adopt a continuous improvement mindset to enhance planning and operational processes.
• Data Analysis: Create, Review & Action against the Master Production Schedule for all Finished Good items.
• Reporting: Track and review Key Performance Indicators such as schedule adherence, attainment, inventory turns, customer service and days on hand and take appropriate action to meet or exceed targets.
• Review firm order demand, new sales or marketing demand and current levels of inventory to monitor emergent demand.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to drive speed to market initiatives in the execution of new product launches, product change projects and demand shaping activities.
• Coordinate Co-manufacturer start-ups and capacity enhancements for both short-term and long-term needs to ensure a phased scaling-up process.
• Avoid the status quo and adopt a continuous improvement mindset to enhance planning and operational processes.
• Data Analysis: Create, Review & Action against the Master Production Schedule for all Finished Good items.
• Reporting: Track and review Key Performance Indicators such as schedule adherence, attainment, inventory turns, customer service and days on hand and take appropriate action to meet or exceed targets.
• Review firm order demand, new sales or marketing demand and current levels of inventory to monitor emergent demand.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to drive speed to market initiatives in the execution of new product launches, product change projects and demand shaping activities.
• Coordinate Co-manufacturer start-ups and capacity enhancements for both short-term and long-term needs to ensure a phased scaling-up process.
• Avoid the status quo and adopt a continuous improvement mindset to enhance planning and operational processes.
• Data Analysis: Create, Review & Action against the Master Production Schedule for all Finished Good items.
• Reporting: Track and review Key Performance Indicators such as schedule adherence, attainment, inventory turns, customer service and days on hand and take appropriate action to meet or exceed targets.
• Review firm order demand, new sales or marketing demand and current levels of inventory to monitor emergent demand.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to drive speed to market initiatives in the execution of new product launches, product change projects and demand shaping activities.
• Coordinate Co-manufacturer start-ups and capacity enhancements for both short-term and long-term needs to ensure a phased scaling-up process.
• Avoid the status quo and adopt a continuous improvement mindset to enhance planning and operational processes.
• Data Analysis: Create, Review & Action against the Master Production Schedule for all Finished Good items.
• Reporting: Track and review Key Performance Indicators such as schedule adherence, attainment, inventory turns, customer service and days on hand and take appropriate action to meet or exceed targets.
• Review firm order demand, new sales or marketing demand and current levels of inventory to monitor emergent demand.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to drive speed to market initiatives in the execution of new product launches, product change projects and demand shaping activities.
• Coordinate Co-manufacturer start-ups and capacity enhancements for both short-term and long-term needs to ensure a phased scaling-up process.
• Avoid the status quo and adopt a continuous improvement mindset to enhance planning and operational processes.
• Data Analysis: Create, Review & Action against the Master Production Schedule for all Finished Good items.
• Reporting: Track and review Key Performance Indicators such as schedule adherence, attainment, inventory turns, customer service and days on hand and take appropriate action to meet or exceed targets.
• Review firm order demand, new sales or marketing demand and current levels of inventory to monitor emergent demand.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to drive speed to market initiatives in the execution of new product launches, product change projects and demand shaping activities.
• Coordinate Co-manufacturer start-ups and capacity enhancements for both short-term and long-term needs to ensure a phased scaling-up process.
• Avoid the status quo and adopt a continuous improvement mindset to enhance planning and operational processes.
• Data Analysis: Create, Review & Action against the Master Production Schedule for all Finished Good items.
• Reporting: Track and review Key Performance Indicators such as schedule adherence, attainment, inventory turns, customer service and days on hand and take appropriate action to meet or exceed targets.
• Review firm order demand, new sales or marketing demand and current levels of inventory to monitor emergent demand.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to drive speed to market initiatives in the execution of new product launches, product change projects and demand shaping activities.
• Coordinate Co-manufacturer start-ups and capacity enhancements for both short-term and long-term needs to ensure a phased scaling-up process.
• Avoid the status quo and adopt a continuous improvement mindset to enhance planning and operational processes.
• Data Analysis: Create, Review & Action against the Master Production Schedule for all Finished Good items.
• Reporting: Track and review Key Performance Indicators such as schedule adherence, attainment, inventory turns, customer service and days on hand and take appropriate action to meet or exceed targets.
• Review firm order demand, new sales or marketing demand and current levels of inventory to monitor emergent demand.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to drive speed to market initiatives in the execution of new product launches, product change projects and demand shaping activities.
• Coordinate Co-manufacturer start-ups and capacity enhancements for both short-term and long-term needs to ensure a phased scaling-up process.
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