Principal Job Duties:
- Create production schedules with the intent to maintain targeted inventory levels while balancing staffing, machine capacity, and production efficiencies
- Evaluate SKU demand allocations, analyzes and plans site production schedules based on current and evolving business needs, site capacities, and special equipment or timing needs
- Organize and run S&OP meetings focused on customer support and plant profitability
- Analyze, maintain, and modify key item-level system replenishment settings such as minimum ship quantities, shipment increments, minimum production quantities, and maintain inventory levels
- Lead a team of production planners to execute Westrocks planning strategy at their locations of responsibility
- Work with additional plant leadership to schedule production around the plant's budget structure
- Engage with the sales team to understand priorities based on demand signals, sales trends, and policy
- Communicate with manufacturing leaders and makes adjustments to the production schedule when necessary
- Inform critical team members of any extenuating circumstances that could cause service failures
- Develop others within the planning organization through the sharing of best demonstrated processes and knowledge transference
- Provide cross functional leadership across departments to solve for demand related issues caused by forecast error, demand constraints, unplanned promotional opportunities, etc.
- Provide Sales and Operations teams with timely analysis, guidance, and decision-making to ensure that the supply chain is in the best position to execute the demand plan generated from the total operational forecast.
- Generate and publish to key stakeholders, monthly and weekly demand forecasts, including clear identification of assumptions highlighting significant changes since release of previous report
- Perform other duties as assigned
Minimum Required Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree in Business, Supply Chain or other related field
- 8+ years experience in production planning, preferably in a food and/or beverage manufacturing environment; or equivalent combination of education and experience
- 3+ years experience managing a planning team
- Knowledge of a Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process
- Familiar with Materials Requirements Planning (MRP)
- Experience managing a diverse set of internal stakeholders, including forecasting, inventory management, maintenance and quality assurance
- Strong computer skills (Word, Excel, Outlook, NetSuite, or other similar ERP systems)
- Ability to work in fast paced high-pressure environment where change is constant and needs to be managed with internal and external customers
- Financial understanding of P&L and ability to drive results for bottom line profit
- Demonstrates superior interpersonal, coaching, and communication skills to multiple levels of the organization
- Motivated, self-directed, and detail oriented
- Aptitude in decision-making and working with financial KPI's
- Ability to develop and contribute to strategic vision for a Global Procurement organization
- Effectively manage multiple projects simultaneously & to develop priorities for self and members of staff
- Collaborates cross-functionally