Master Supply Planner - Pet

Post Consumer Brands•Lakeville, MN

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

Under the direction of the Associate Director of Supply Planning, the Master Supply Planner serves as the orchestrator of the end-to-end supply plan, integrating multiple sources of planning intelligence to shape, communicate, and influence enterprise decisions. This role is accountable for continuously evolving the capacity and inventory plan that enables demand fulfillment across all regions while balancing cost, service level, and optimal network for an assigned product portfolio. The Master Supply Planner synthesizes inputs from demand signals, operational constraints, inventory strategies, and financial objectives, leveraging advanced planning systems, analytics, and standardized process to create a coherent, actionable supply plan. Rather than producing a static plan, this role translates complexity into options, framing trade-offs, risks, and opportunities to guide decision-making through the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process. The Master Supply Planner supports and collaborates with many stakeholders and functional areas including: Manufacturing & Operations Leadership - to translate operational capabilities and constraints into scenario-based supply plans Demand Planning - to interpret forecast signals into an agile supply plan that supports unconstrained demand. Brand Management - to convert the brand strategy into an actionable supply plan, clearly communicating options and impacts Sales, Strategy and Trade - to understand selling strategy and customer approach to build item-level inventory plan Plant Production Scheduling - to align on the production and execution of the overall supply plan Finance - to ensure supply is planned to the cost-optimal network and inventory impacts are understood Integrated Planning Center of Excellence - to fully leverage technology and system capabilities to enable advanced planning Working Location: Hybrid This role is located at the Lakeville, MN Corporate office Typical hybrid schedule includes 3 days in-office with remote flexibility up to 2 days a week.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, Business, Finance, or related field is required
Minimum of 5 years of combined related experience operating in areas of master supply planning, inventory control, production scheduling, demand management, capacity management, materials management, or distribution resource planning; with preference in food processing and packaging
Integrated planning systems training like ERP/DRP/MPS/MRP/CRP is required; experience with advanced planning systems is preferred
Knowledge of manufacturing systems and processes
Ability to think critically and use analytical skills to draw conclusions from known inputs and develop recommendations
Must be able to effectively interact, collaborate and communicate across multiple functions in the organization
Demonstrated use of emerging technologies like AI, Tableau, Sigma, as well as advanced use of Excel is preferred

Nice To Haves

Professional certification from APICS is desirable

Responsibilities

Create and manage a timely and accurate Supply Plan that delivers the lowest possible delivered-cost and optimize inventory plan for assigned product portfolio
Lead cross functional input planning meetings to gather capacity planning inputs
Maintain inventory target strategy for the assigned product portfolio, to establish the inventory settings that guide execution and prebuild plans
Summarize and present supply plan narrative, creating organizational confidence in a supply outlook that meets the demand plan within available capacity
Assess total network inventory position by asset, optimizing tradeoffs where required in partnership cross-functional stakeholders
Partner with Supply Chain Coordinators to handoff supply plan outlooks from long-term horizon into the executional window. Collaborate to align DRP settings with network inventory visibility and execute short-horizon demand opportunities within capacity constraints.
Continuous improvement mindset to provide recommendations to improve service levels, inventory strategy, and reduce costs through process or execution improvements
Track and report KPIs on significant supply variances, perform root cause analysis and make the appropriate revisions within the Supply plan
Act as subject matter expert, super user, training developer or trainer as assigned
Fully leverage available technologies and system capabilities to execute input-driven planning and strive towards touchless planning