What are the responsibilities and job description for the Supply Chain Planner position at World Finer Foods, LLC.?
TITLE: Supply Chain Planner
REPORTS: Director of Supply Chain
LOCATION: Bloomfield, New Jersey
EXPERIENCE: Minimum 4 year degree and 5 years planning or comparable experience.
CLASSIFICATION: Full time, Exempt
POSTING DATE: March 18, 2025
Company Overview:
World Finer Foods, located in Bloomfield, New Jersey, is a full-service sales, marketing and distribution company for food, health and personal care products. With more than $200 million in annual sales, World Finer foods sell over 60 brands and over 1,000 products from around the globe.
Position Overview:
This position plays a key role in the planning and purchasing of designated brands and components to satisfy fully our customer needs and build a robust supply chain network. The individual will interact regularly with the suppliers, cross-functional partners including Sales, Marketing, and Supply Chain utilizing historical order and shipment data. The planner will help identify, quantify, and communicate forecast changes, risks and opportunities with the co-packers and support WFF’s sales growth and improve process development for any new Third-Party Brand. In addition, the planner will be responsible for the management of our Wal-Mart consolidated warehouse inventories and process.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Plan, order and negotiate the buying of all goods for designated brands and warehouses
- Create Purchase Orders, Work Orders and Internal Requisitions as required.
- High level of collaboration with Marketing and Demand Planning in monthly Brand S&OP
- Manage inventory levels proactively to reduce risk of closeout.
- Manage the shipper and assembly components for all items
- Invoice approval for all vendors of all components
- Manage the inventory of finished goods from co-packers to satisfy all customer needs and to minimize the cost of close-outs.
- Place orders for finished goods to facilitate transfer of inventory to our warehouses.
- Work in conjunction with the production manager to schedule the production runs for all items.
- Work with the Logistics Manager to arrange freight and control total freight costs with different carriers for all destinations.
- Other tasks as assigned by manager.
Qualifications:
- Background in production scheduling, forecasting, procurement, and/or planning.
- Strong analytical abilities, meticulous and extreme accuracy required.
- Strong knowledge of the demand planning process within Consumer Packaged Goods Industry
- Experience using Demantra or other Planning Tool preferred but not required.
- Knowledge of demand management/forecasting tools, forecasting processes in sales, marketing operations, finance, manufacturing, and supply chain issues
- Excellent communication, presentation and Team building skills.
- Extensive spreadsheet analysis and strong mathematical abilities
- 5 years related experience.
- 4-year college degree (Supply Chain or related field)
Salary : $200
