Production Planner

The Role:

You will create short- and long-term production plans for products produced in a Kao Manufacturing Plant. Reporting to the Production Planning Lead, primary goals of the Production Planner position include optimizing inventory, ordering components, ensuring high customer order fill rate, minimizing obsolete and slow moving, and ensuring cohesive and collaborative cross functional partnerships.

At Kao, we offer amazing benefits that are available to you on your first day of employment (healthcare, 401(k) plus company match), 36 total days off (vacation holidays sick) and a reasonable salary range of $60,000 - $75,000. We also offer a hybrid work schedule.

What you will do:

• Develop daily, weekly or monthly production plans by reviewing forecast streams, demands for promotions, and inventory positions at the Sku level. Production plans must extend up to 12 months in the future for visibility.
• Place and monitor component purchase orders with vendors to support production plans with consideration to minimum order requirements, lead times, and cost effectiveness.
• Consider plant capabilities and capacities, batch splits, seasonality, as well as any upcoming restages, product changes and new product launches. Communicate priorities to the Production Scheduler.
• Contribute to cross functional teams, including NPD (new product development), Consensus/Forecasting, Obsolete, Critical Sku Information Reviews, and others as required.
• Proactively identify potential stock issues and communicate to cross functional groups to support effective prioritization and decision making in production scheduling or order fulfillment.
• Identify potential slow moving or obsolete inventory and communicate to drive disposition and appropriate decision making. Prevent and/or minimize by facilitating cross functional discussions when appropriate.
• Participate in Daily and Weekly Scheduling meetings. Collaborate with Production Scheduler, Buyer/Planners and Production Planning Lead to plan efficiently.
• Track performance against Key Performance Targets (KPTs) and other objectives. This includes creating, updating, and distributing reports from SAP, Excel, BI, Word, and Powerpoint.
  
  

What you will need:

• Bachelor's degree in Operations or Supply Chain Management.
• 1 years experience in Supply Chain or Operations.
• Knowledge and understanding of MRP (Material Requirements Planning) concepts and processes, and plant rules and capacities.
• Ability to recognize and action exceptions to prevent over or under stocks, and to proactively communicate risks to appropriate members.
• Effectively uses BI/SAP and other relevant systems; can make connection between day to day planning activities and impact to Planning KPTs (Key performance targets).
  
  

What we offer: A friendly and flexible work environment with great compensation packages, benefits package, ongoing development and the opportunity to enhance your skills and deliver tangible results. At Kao your voice will be heard. Your opinion really counts. We believe that change comes from taking opportunities into your own hands, so we value and reward thinking and new ideas.

Hiring Process: Kao embraces the diversity and the individual personalities of its people because we believe it is diversity that makes us strong. This is why we welcome applications from all areas of the global community.

Want to learn more: If you feel you are as unique as our products and want to find out why 33,000 people across the globe opted for a career with us please visit our Americas website (https://www.kao.com/americas/en/).

Kao USA is an equal opportunity employer, including disability/vets.