Material Planner

What makes this a great opportunity?

Material Planner

This role will be instrumental in a larger initiative within North American Operations.  As Beam strives to be the “world’s fastest growing spirits company,” the company aims to gain competitive advantage through Lean manufacturing, strategic planning, and strengthened procurement.  The Raw Materials Planner will immediately drive efficiency and effectiveness across producing facilities in North America by improving business processes, building cross functional cooperation, and increasing focus on streamlining manual processes

Role Responsibilities

• Coordinate with production planning, operations, engineering, purchasing, and quality to attain production goals.
• Responsible for providing materials for short-term and long-term production plan.  Highlight materials constraints, assess, and communicate impacts, and take appropriate actions in line with global policy.
• Manage inventory level for packaging changes and ensure availability for innovation projects.
• Communicate needs and timing to Vendor and resolve capacity issues by prioritizing scheduling and suggestions.
• Update Supplier tracking and other metrics as identified.
• Analyze changing material demand patterns.
• Work with Operations to determine, research, and correct material inventory discrepancy issues and causes.
• Responsible for the development, creation, and communication of various S&OP reports

Support and/or lead ad hoc projects and analysis, as requested

Qualifications

• 4-year college degree preferred/relevant experience considered
• Strong MS Excel skills
• Minimum 3 years of relevant planning/project management; preferably within the food/beverage industry
•  SAP and/or MRP-driven system experience
• APICS certification preferred
• Analytically inclined - able to merge large data sets, analyze data, synthesize business insight and clearly communicate findings.
• Problem Solver - applies critical-thinking skills to generate, evaluate and implement solutions.
• Change Agile - Successfully adapts to changing situations. Manages ambiguity in the function/ role.
• Collaborative across cross functional teams