Planner Supply

External•Laurel, MD

6d•Onsite

About The Position

Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream, now part of Froneri, is seeking a Planner Supply to manage the supply plan for their assigned business area. This role is crucial for replenishing products to meet objectives, maintaining optimal stock cover, and ensuring alignment across partners through daily, weekly, and monthly business reviews and collaborative planning processes. The Planner Supply will identify and manage exceptions, monitor performance, and continuously improve the quality and reliability of the supply plan. They will provide short-term, capacity, and long-term production plans that are feasible and realistic, considering resource availability (production lines, labor) and materials. This is an opportunity to drive high-impact transformation with household brands in an entrepreneurial, fast-paced, and engaging growth assignment.

Requirements

Developed ability of Excel skills
Developed ability of analytical thinking
Highly developed ability of negotiation and communication skills
Strong leadership, delegation, analytical, interpersonal, and organizational skills
Good knowledge of Planning cycle, commercial understanding, optimization techniques and costing
Ability to manage entire process from planning to Deliver
Results Orientated
Work well in a team and under pressure
Excellent collaboration and communication skills
Presentation skills
Exceptional note-taking skills that can capture information and confidently share insights
Two or more years of relevant operational experience at market / business level is useful, in at least one of the following areas (Manufacturing Function/Planning Function): MPS (Master Production Scheduling), DRP (Distribution Requirement Planning), MRP (Material Requirement Planning)
Basic understanding of the Impact of Master Production & Detailed Production decisions on execution and other Supply Chain KPIs.
Detailed knowledge of Customer Service / Distribution Requirement Planning (domestic/international) / Factory Operations / Co-packing / Co-manufacturing / Inventory management (Finished Goods)/ Materials Management (Raw & Packaging) / Supply Chain KPIs.
Sales & Operational Planning Experience including scenario planning, supply risk assessment, and alignment with demand and manufacturing.
Must be able to win trust and respect of others.
Must be able to identify potential impacts of a problem on all relevant areas of the operation
Must be able to give a point of view clearly and firmly while open to objections.
Eye for detail
Able to balance priorities.
Able to see the bigger picture beyond the scope of their job.
Ability to extrapolate indirect information and make connections on how this impacts the business and planning.
Thinks outside of the box.
Must consistently showcase the desired behaviors that represent our Core Values.
Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States now and in the future.

Nice To Haves

Capacity Planning
Production Planning and Scheduling
Manufacturing Performance and Management and planning of inventory
Impact of, and relationship between: Product portfolio (type of demand, seasonality, lifecycle status, shelf life); Master Production & Detailed Production.
Experience in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.

Responsibilities

Create a feasible Supply plan within the plan period that takes into consideration available capacity, available labor, available materials, that respects the product family sequencing as determined, by the demand long-term planner and best optimizes the factory's ability to produce the SKUs within the families.
Conduct planning meetings with relevant functions, documenting meeting minutes via email.
Establish a 12-week production plan for the factories within your scope of responsibility with minimum changeovers and zero downtime.
Ensure timely system updates to reflect changes and highlight any increase/decrease in demand and its impact.
Identify practical concerns of the plan, production shutdowns, CIP, preventive maintenance and activate within the detailed plan period.
Capacity to learn the planning process of other facilities within the business including Bakersfield, Tulare, Fort Wayne, and Laurel.
Identify possible opportunities for the factory within the detailed plan period.
Identify potential issues for the factory within the detailed plan period, evaluate risks, and offer solutions.
Provide advance information daily/weekly to ensure alignment with the team and cross-function on requirements within the detailed plan period.
Manage the relationship and effective flow of information between the Planning function and internal business partners such as Customer Service, Logistics, Procurement, Operations, Sales, Marketing, Quality, NPD and Finance.
Contribute effectively and participate in the Business Planning process according to Best Practice.
Analyze and communicate relevant information to Senior Management by sharing KPIs; highlight performance gaps; provide detailed information on the impact of proposed actions and trade-offs; ensure proposed actions are realistic and achievable.
Ensure proper cascading of KPIs to drive ownership and alignment across the organization.
Develop and support maintaining standard operating procedures.
Manage NPDs plan across all departments to deliver the project on time.
Ensure stock cover for all ranges without affecting the business working capital.
Collaborate with procurement for raw & pack material runouts from a Finished Good planning perspective for flow through, transitions, and at-risk expiry.
Represent the Factory on Club and Marketing calls, actively engaging to align on realistic expectations, first production runs, and weekly volume expectations.
Share at-risk Finished Goods metrics with high-level leadership and discuss observations and risks as they relate to supply demand.
Deliver an accurate rolling 12-week forecast to the short-term planner that aligns with their needs to develop a good 5-week detailed plan.
Ensure coverage between the long-term and short-term planner to support and cover when planned or unplanned events arise.
Adhere to FRONERI procedures and standards.
Maintain 5S in your workplace.
Update planning parameters on the system for materials when needed.