Materials Planner

Here’s What All The Hype Is About…

Premier Nutrition Company (PNC) is one of the fastest-growing companies in the convenient nutrition space showing clear leadership in the category of protein shakes and protein powders. We make the brands Premier Protein, Dymatize, and PowerBar, which is sold internationally, and we are part of our holding company, BellRing Brands (NYSE: BRBR).

We have a simple, yet powerful, formula for our success, which we’ve been nailing for over 15 years. We start off with an organization powered by our company purpose—Changing Lives with Good Energy. Then our purpose-driven people are given the support and autonomy to develop and grow. Next, we are super-intentional about designing a culture where everyone feels like they truly connect and belong, which is one of our five company core values. Purpose-driven, connected employees who are consistently mastering new skills deliver amazing business results. And winning companies with amazing people and thriving cultures attract and retain top talent, so the cycle becomes self-reinforcing or what we call our regenerative culture.

We don’t mind sharing our formula since, as people who we believe in the power of changing lives with good energy, we think the world would be a better place if more workplaces treated adults like adults and gave them the platform to do the best work of their lives—alongside some truly amazing colleagues. Why don’t more companies do this? It takes deep-in-your-bones conviction to your people, products, and purpose to pull it off. It also takes resisting the urge to try to control people, and instead trusting them to make the right decisions. The results of our vibrant culture speaks for themselves: We were certified as a Great Place to Work™ for the 8th year-running in 2024. And we currently rank #3 on Fortune Magazine’s Best Workplaces in our category, and in the top 12 for each of the last 6 years.

We have a long list of ways we take care of our people, but here are some crowd-pleasers that our employees often say they love most: Year-round ½ day Fridays, in-office massages, free lunches & snacks, dogs in the office, month-long cultural and diversity celebrations, monthly over-the-top in-office events like bring your kids to work day, 6% 401k match after 1 year, as-needed sick leave, generous paid family leave regardless of gender, all positions bonus-eligible, company-wide volunteer days, company-matched charitable donations, no employee handbook, no dress code, coaching conversations instead of performance reviews, walking meetings, free exercise classes, and company-paid gym membership for Emeryville-based employees.

PNC seeks individuals who will flourish in this type of work environment and will add to our culture and help build this high-growth company for the next phase in our amazing journey. Does this sound like you? Then read on…

The role you’re interested in…

The Materials Planner is responsible for planning supply of packaging and ingredients with our external suppliers to meet the Finished Good production requirements.

The work environment…

So, what’s it like to work here? If you’re based in the greater Bay Area, you’ll walk into our Emeryville office each Tuesday morning and start the in-person portion of our hybrid work week at our weekly all-company meeting and find close to 200 of your colleagues sitting on sofas, beanbag chairs, or the floor excitedly talking through the week ahead and watching a newer teammate tell their personal life and career journey followed by a quick update on any hot topics that might be relevant to the week ahead.

We are a dynamic, HYBRID workplace so every employee who lives within 100 miles of our offices is expected to come in each TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY. We aligned on those two common days way back in 2021 to be intentional about connecting in person for things like innovation, impromptu collaboration, having respectful challenges to get to better decisions, leadership role-modeling, and culture building. Great work cultures are built on stories about what great looks like in practice, and great stories on Zoom meetings are few and far between. The expected pay scale for this role is $90k to $100k, which may vary based on relevant experience, qualifications, geographic area (if applicable), and internal equity for the role.

Our modern 50,000 sq. foot headquarters straddles the border of the cities of Emeryville, Oakland, and Berkeley, California with free onsite parking and many transportation options.

You’re excited about this opportunity because your time will be filled with…

Materials Planning: 75% of Time

• Regularly reviews stock levels, making crucial decisions on how best to support service but to minimize risks of excess and aging inventory.
• Determine production schedules that support production forecasts, ensuring that customer service levels and inventory performance targets are met.
• Implement production schedules with suppliers within the limits of their line availability, lead time and minimum run sizes.
• Regularly leads production meetings with suppliers to ensure strong communication with business partners.
• Resolves material supply related issues such as scheduling conflicts, and other problems, involving the necessary departments (CoMan, Demand Planning, Quality, R&D, Marketing, and/or Sales) as needed.
• Brings visibility to the pre-S&OP/Monthly Operating Meetings of short term and long-term issues and risks such as write-off liabilities, service issues, and capacity issues.
• Determines and sets up planning parameters within the MRP system – safety stock, lead time, lot sizes, time fences – based on various inputs gathered from Suppliers and internal partners.
• Monthly reconciliation of inventory between the Premier system and the inventory in the warehouses and co-mans. Investigating variances by using data forensics.
• Determine purchase quantities by balancing service, tiered pricing and inventory levels to achieve the best plan that meets Premier’s cost and service goals.
• Work with Buying team to resolve long term supplier issues or reset goals/guidelines based on business changes.
• Work with Finished Goods Supplier Planner to resolve any disconnects between material supply and demand.
  
  

New Product Launches and Transitions: 25% of Time

• Participate in new product launch Project Teams.
• Provides guidance to the Project Team on lead times and manufacturing capabilities.
• Coordinates and executes plans related to product launches and transitions to ensure project timelines are met.
• Manages transition to ensure we minimize write-off while achieving service goals.
  
  

What are we looking for?

Education

• Bachelor’s degree required in any field
• Integrated planning systems training and experience in ERP/DRP/MRP is required
  
  

Experience

• 3 years industry experience operating in an MRP environment in areas of inventory control, production scheduling, master scheduling, demand management, capacity management, materials management, or distribution resource planning
• Consumer-Packaged Goods industry experience is a plus
  
  

Skills And Mindset

• Broad knowledge and experience of supply chain processes and planning systems
• Exceptional quantitative and analytical skills
• Demonstrated sound business judgment and initiative
• Self-directed, with the ability to communicate findings
• Ability to manage many details with a high level of accuracy
• Comfortable working with individuals at all organizational levels
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Star performance demonstrated in previous employment
  
  

Five capabilities that differentiate this role and are key to candidate success:

• Drive and own results
• Learning & growth mindset
• Be a builder
• Embody a strategic mindset
• Influence and inspire
  
  

You will thrive here and may just do the best work of your life if…

• You want to be an integral part of shaping and nurturing an amazing work culture
• You like trying out novel minimum viable product people-related ideas
• You can be flexible in your approach to people challenges and abandon past practices if they don’t make sense or would lead to a poor outcome
• You enjoy making people-centric decisions and finding ways to say ‘yes’ as often as possible to impactful and important priorities for the business or team
• You are comfortable being natural, casual, open, and even a bit playful at work
• You can be friendly, vulnerable, and self-deprecating in one moment, and deal with a challenging, delicate people-related matter as a professional in the next
• You can do periods of focused, deep work on projects that drive the needle
  
  

This may not be your ideal next career move if…

• You like a lot of structure, rules, and uniformity
• You like order, hierarchy, command and control management
• You want to build lots of processes, systems, governance, or policies
• Dealing with ambiguity or experimentation are not your jam
• You try to resolve challenging interpersonal situations over email or instant messaging
• You revel in the details and ineffable beauty of a finely-wrought, fully-baked new HR program
• You enjoy writing stuffy job descriptions
• You like managing from behind your computer and demonstrating excellence through email
• You tend to chase whatever shiny object presents itself during the day even if non-strategic
  
  

If we haven’t convinced you to apply already, here are some of our favorite perks and benefits:

• Summer hours (and of course a hefty PTO package plus 11 holidays)
• 401K match. Literally free money.
• Free food. Plus kombucha, cold brew coffee, sparkling water…all on tap.
• All people and roles are bonus-eligible.
• Quarterly team building events/happy hours (city-wide scavenger hunt, bowling, ropes course, putt-putt)
• Bring your dog to work (3 days/week)
  
  

Premier Nutrition provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, status as a covered veteran and any other category protected under applicable federal, state, provincial and local laws.