Senior Supply Planner

Responsibilities

• Ensure continuity of supply of finished goods for assigned brands.
• Manage inventory levels and the deployment of finished goods according to customer demands and company objectives.
• Advise management and brand team members of the current and future status of product supply related information for existing and new products.
• Responsible for all levels of the production planning process, creating and providing clear scheduling direction and guidelines.
• Ensure volume, customer service; inventory and operating expense goals are achieved through creation, communication and implementation of weekly sales and operations master production schedules.
• Monitor and analyze capacity constraint data and adjust master schedules accordingly or make recommendations for solution.
• Review sales forecast and inventory data to create weekly master production schedule in accordance with customer service targets, logistics and manufacturing cost goals for supply chain.
• Develop, analyze and communicate action plans to resolve service problems.
• Perform transportation and equipment capacity analyses.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including internal and external manufacturing operations, customer service, finance, quality, sales, and marketing to resolve issues impacting their areas of responsibility.
• Work with manufacturing locations and lead special projects to improve forecast accuracy, inventory reductions, transit time, and product.
• In locations where applicable, responsible to comply with the SQF and GMP practices and programs to ensure safe food packaging product and to report food safety problems to those with authority to take action.

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree in Procurement, Logistics or related field.
• MBA or advanced degree a plus.
• 5+ years of related professional and progressive supply chain business experience.
• Previous experience in production planning, scheduling, demand planning, or distributions operations in a multi-facility environment preferred.