Material Planner I - BU

Amcor

About The Position

The BU Material Planner is responsible for maintaining a healthy flow of raw materials in their assigned business unit to support goals for production and cash flow. The planner position will utilize their business knowledge, collaborative, analytical and quantitative skill sets to understand, predict and enhance the organization's raw material position and support AFNA’s commitment to “Service Excellence”. This position will provide ongoing analysis of inventory health and provide key information to the leadership teams, plants and procurement to support effective and efficient raw material supply chain functions.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Operations Management, Business or a related field and 1-3 years of relevant experience OR an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience totaling 5-7 years
Demonstrated experience in Materials Management and other Supply Chain functions, CPIM desirable
Strong analytical and communication skills
Demonstrated high level of proficiency in Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and BI, including reporting and graphs
Experience working with ERP systems, preferably SAP
Project Management skills or willingness to complete in-house Project Management training

Responsibilities

Lead and manage raw material replenishment strategies within the BU to support the Master Schedule, other service priorities and cash flow. Capitalizing on the use of supplier programs (consignment, VMI, etc.) to reduce cash and warehouse footprint.
Collaborating with the plant materials team, procurement and commodity management, ensure data integrity in SAP is maintained to drive execution through the ERP system to include updated BOM’s, independent requirements, safety stocks and other master data.
Monitor inventory health and set appropriate KPIs to ensure all functions are executing to the desired strategies and supplier consignment programs are working
Working with the plants, procurement, commodity managers and R&D, create solutions for material shortages to prevent service interruptions.
Support new customer/products on-boarding within the BU by establishing both scale-up and long-term raw material replenishment models; manage raw material flows related to business changes, transfers, and loss.
Collaborate with Commercial, Customer Service, and Master Scheduling/Supply Planning partners to develop customer raw material agreements (RMA’s).
Manage, control, and prevent aging and excess inventories throughout the BU, ensuring the plants are using up consignment materials before aging, using alternate materials timely, creating use up plans for aging materials, and consolidating low usage materials into high volume materials to prevent aging.
Present and communicate information to all levels of the organization working closely with various business functions to develop & deliver reporting and analysis related to raw materials management.
Leads raw material related supply chain projects and works collaboratively across the SC organization to identify and recommend ways to streamline end-to-end processes and to lean out the procurement process.

Benefits

Medical, dental and vision plans
Flexible time off, starting at 80 hours paid time per year for full-time salaried employees
Company-paid holidays starting at 9 days per year and may be slightly higher by location
Wellbeing program & Employee Assistance Program
Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account
Life insurance, AD&D, short-term & long-term disability, and voluntary accident disability benefits are available
Paid Parental Leave
Retirement Savings Plan with company match
Tuition Reimbursement (dependent upon approval)
Discretionary annual bonus program (initial eligibility dependent upon hire date)