Plant Material Planner

Colgate•Bowling Green, KY

6d•Onsite

About The Position

Colgate-Palmolive Company is a global consumer products company operating in over 200 countries specializing in Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care, Skin Care, and Pet Nutrition. At Hill’s, the mission is to help enrich and lengthen the special relationships between people and their pets through pioneering innovation and science-led nutrition. As a Plant Material Planner, you will develop inventory strategies for raw and packaging materials and manage inbound supplier activities to support the production schedule while minimizing SLOB (slow moving and obsolete inventory).

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree
1+ years of experience in a Supply Chain–related field
Strong technical knowledge and knowledge of manufacturing processes, product scheduling and experience with SAP, Kinaxis or any other related ERP system
Ability to lift up to 50 pounds on occasion including in the raw minor ingredient area, plant floor, and warehouse during reconciliation, inventory, and project activities.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in Logistics, Engineering, Business, Finance, or a related field
Demonstrated progress towards APICS certification (CPIM/CSCP certifications)
Experience utilizing OPERA, Wonderware, and Infoserver
Experience with Google Suites (e.g: Google Docs, Sheets, Forms, Slides)
Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills

Responsibilities

Develop relationship with all material suppliers to establish regular ordering process and maintain optimal in-stock levels.
Use available SAP tools to identify and mitigate material shortages or potential SLOB scenarios.
Work closely with the Production Planning team to identify changes in schedule and address material shortage concerns.
Collaborate with the Procurement team to identify supplier gaps and drive future efficiencies.
Support quarterly master data upkeep and SAP utilization processes to drive optimal automated planning processes.
Define Safety Stock strategy, MOQ, lot size strategy to maximize efficiencies and minimize cost and waste while increasing the levels of service and quality.
Support policies and targets for forward looking global stock coverage optimization, inventory glide-path projections, and global month-end finished goods inventory reporting (units and pounds).
Support Marketing, Commercial, CMS, Finance, and CS&L teams to ensure preparedness and timely execution of new product initiatives.
Perform other duties as assigned.
Meet or exceed safety and quality standards.
Clearing blocked invoices and other financial transactions.
Use SAP data/system to set production plans, schedule requirements, inventory management, and schedule adherence.
Verify accuracy of daily transactions in SAP, production reporting systems, and yield reporting; performs monthly and quarterly inventories — physical and system.
Make arrangements to maintain inventory levels while facing logistical issues; recommend contingency plans to OP&M TL to address business interruption; facilitate troubleshooting of production scheduling problems, inventory variances, and yield variances in a timely manner.
Support productivity initiatives by monitoring processes to deliver against key performance goals including Production, Inventory, Scrap, Cost, Plant Service Level, Cycle Time Interval and Schedule Attainment.
Work closely with Operations Planning and Materials Leader to deliver customer service, productivity, and cost results and balance priorities.
Update SOP, SAP material master, and working with Controller on costing of product ingredient changes.
Ensure raw and packaging material inventory processes and controls to effectively manage receiving, inventory, SLOB, and working capital.
Coordinate with Inventory, Planning & Deployment (IPD) team to support Hill’s domestic and international demand.
Adhere to operating budgets for variable and fixed overheads for the production planning and materials team.
Ensure that all materials shipped and received are in compliance with corporate and government standards for quality, trace-ability, and bio-terrorism.

Benefits

medical
dental
vision
basic life insurance
paid parental leave
disability coverage
participation in the 401(k) retirement plan with company matching contributions subject to eligibility requirements
a minimum of 15 vacation/PTO days
13 paid holidays
Paid sick leave is adjusted based on role and location in accordance with local laws.