Materials Planner

Position Profile

Reviews sales forecasts, product specifications, and production schedules to accurately determine raw material requirements for an organization. Ensures raw materials are available to meet designated production schedules. Utilizes MRP system to coordinate materials from purchasing, processing, warehousing, and production. Documents material details, including all codes, brands, and contact information necessary to process orders. Updates orders to account for remaining inventory or changes in production schedules.

Primary Responsibilities / Key Responsibilities

1. Customer Service and communications:

o Utilize Smart Sheets, customer calls, Customer Service Representative, etc. to balance production schedule efficiency with customer needs / requirements with customer involvement and approval.

o Ensures customer needs and specifications are being met through evaluation and immediate reaction

o Develop key performance indicators to measure the effectiveness of the inventory management operations and develop processes to enhance accuracy, turns and days on hand results.

o Ensure proper product rotation (FIFO) is achieved through detailed receiving procedures which require rotation at delivery and proper selection of ingredients and packaging at the time of production.

o Monitor receiving schedule of online appointments and compare to the PLEX Open PO Report to ensure delivery of ingredients and supplies required to fulfill planned production.

2. Process management:

o Lead or participate in additional projects as needed.

o Develop, implement, train, and enforce all policies and procedures surrounding the company’s inventory systems and inventory adjustments.

o Ensure the accurate recording and tracking of all inventory through Plex software.

o Maintain and utilize item production matrix to schedule based on allergens, limiting factors, inclusions and like product recipes.

o Enter production jobs into PLEX to support schedule and material orders.

o Responsible for updating/maintaining customer smart sheets prior to weekly meetings.

o Manage vendor relations, expectations and execution to ensure quality, cost controls and timely orders and deliveries.

3. Training and Development:

o Collaborate cross functionally to develop training materials and standard operating procedures to ensure consistent knowledge transfer.

o Partner with Production Manager to ensure that partial pallets of finished goods are identified and merged with new orders daily to eliminate potential losses due to aged inventory of finished goods.

o Ensure cycle counts are conducted, accurately updated and communicated to production managers so training is provided to team members as needed.

o Treat all coworkers with dignity and respect

o Provide and accept constructive feedback

o Teamwork - Contributes to building a positive team spirit; puts success of team above own interests; supports everyone's efforts to succeed; maintains a positive attitude; generates ideas and suggestions that improve the team’s performance, the efficiency of the process or the quality of the products

4. Process Improvement:

o Analyze current production processes to identify areas for efficiency improvement and cost reduction.

o Collaborate with production, maintenance and engineering teams to implement process enhancements and ensure they are scalable and sustainable.

o Keep up to date on inventory control best practices in order to educate staff and issue policy change.

o Planning and organizing production schedule to fulfill customer orders and required delivery dates while reducing changeover down time, adhering to allergen requirements and ensuring efficiencies of labor.

o Ensure the accurate recording and tracking of all inventory through Plex software.

5. Research and Innovation:

o Stay informed about industry trends, emerging technologies, and new ingredients that can be applied to waffle and pancake production.

o Lead or participate in additional projects as needed.

o Collaborate with marketing, and sales teams to align product development with market needs and customer preferences.

o Utilize Smart Sheets, customer calls, Customer Service Representative, etc. to balance production schedule efficiency with customer needs / requirements with customer involvement and approval.

Core Competencies

Ø Strategic: Develops, recommends and implements strategic operations plans while anticipating long term trends and needs. Ensures operations capacities and capabilities are developed to meet anticipated needs. Ensures staff our well developed to meet the increasing responsibilities and complexities of their jobs.

Ø Initiative: Initiates courses of action that will lead to improved performance/effectiveness of the Business Unit Team. Sees a need and takes action to address; questions the way things are done and initiates changes where necessary; sticks with an issue until it is resolved

Ø Information Seeking: Investigates and researches information, digs to resolve discrepancies; obtains information or opinions internally and externally to gain insight or expertise – makes well informed decisions.

Ø Listening, Understanding & Responding: Demonstrates the ability to interact effectively with staff, other team members, customers and external contacts. Defers judgment on what someone is saying until they have they have thoroughly investigated; creates opportunities for meaningful discussion; builds rapport, trust and strong working relationships up, down and across org.

Ø Flexibility: Demonstrates the ability to adapt and work within a variety of situations, and with various groups and individuals; adapting one’s approach as the requirements of a situation.

Ø Self-confidence: Willing to take on a new challenge or assignment displaying confidence and enthusiasm; emphasizes the positive and upside aspects of difficult situations – every situation provides an opportunity for learning.

Ø Results Orientation: Strives to beat or meet project deadlines; sets own high standards for quality of work; seeks ways to use time and resources more cost effectively; highly organized with the ability to set priorities and multi-task.

Ø Team Leadership: Works cooperatively with others promoting team participation as a means to generate more ideas, greater consensus & engagement and a higher level of commitment to delivering results. Creates the environment and processes for the team to build its capacity to take on increasing accountability for results over time; building team expertise, skills, knowledge and performance levels; ensures understanding, consensus and input by keeping team members informed about decisions, the rationale behind them, how they align to the overall business objectives and site objectives.

Ø Serving Customers through active listening and service orientation.

Ø Analytical spirit with ability to convert data into recommendations

Ø Ability to write and present clearly to transfer knowledge in a way that is consistent and accessible to all: SOP’s , Training Materials, Works Instructions.

Ø Understand quality control protocols and Food Safety Regulations

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $65,000.00 - $95,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 12 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday
• On call
• Overtime
• Weekends as needed

Ability to Relocate:

• Liberty, SC 29657: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $65,000 - $95,000