Product Supply Fulfillment Planner II

CONA Services•Charlotte, NC

3d•Onsite

About The Position

The purpose of the Product Supply Fulfillment Planner II role is to support planning and workflow forecasting, production, purchased products, and distribution of CCCI’s full goods for our internal sales system. Priorities are placed on making sure we have the products available to sell and in the right locations while maintaining a low level of inventory across the system. This position is customer-focused and communicates and acts upon internal and external customers in mind, establishes and maintains effective relationships by gaining customer collaboration, trust, and respect. The individual must be able to effectively interface across multiple levels of the organization to be successful. Supports innovation execution processes (new SKU launches, product conversions, in and outs, and exit) strategies, for their perspective functional area and works cross-functionally with Product Supply Planning on project initiatives to support best business decisions.

Requirements

Knowledge acquired through 2 or more years of relevant work experience
Sales and Operations Planning, Inventory Management, or other Bottler or Transportation Industry
Experience with ERP, Planning Systems, Supply Chain, and Procurement
Strong written and presentation skills
Performs robust evaluation of sales forecasting, production scheduling, and inventory management
This role coordinates multi-facets of supply planning to support new item SKU launches, strategic collaboration to support sales initiatives, and drives optimal forward deployment planning to support our internal and external partners' execution strategies
An active member with Product Supply Planning cross-functional projects and task force initiatives
Ability to identify and adapt to company SKU strategy changes, coordinate, and drive efforts within a direct team to support these objectives
Required to have a broad understanding of all CCCI Supply chains with the ability to represent the key disciplines to internal and external customers and key CCCI partners
Lead resource for their functional area for complex research, support, and troubleshooting
Strong analytical and fact-based problem solver

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain, Engineering, Finance, Accounting, Logistics, Marketing, or other areas of the value chain
Experience with Transportation Management System, Enterprise Resource Planning, Supply Chain Planning Software Systems, Reporting and Business Intelligence

Responsibilities

Manages assigned CCCI territory distribution centers (DC)s and, or HUBs to oversee produced, purchased finished goods loads to supply our network warehouses, branches with products for our customers and support warehouse inventory capacities
Manages the critical exceptions analysis for the team and works directly with (FF) planners to resolve and provide insight on best practices
A seasoned planner and resource to direct teammates, provides cross-functional training support, and onboard job shadowing for new hires in a perspective functional area
Serves as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in 4 or more direct functional team processes
Conducts process needs to support assigned CCCI territory distribution centers (DC)s and, or HUBs in allocations, critical exceptions, manage constrained items, load optimization, close dated report (CDR) analysis, sourcing assumptions system SKU settings and, or collaborate on the Authorized Material List (AML) process needs
Supports holiday calendar planning for forward deployment executions
Co-manages new item launch assignments between Demand, Production, and FF teams
Leads to resolve any hurdles and communicates key milestones to management and support the in-market date
Contributes to the overall innovation development strategy and supports the execution for fulfillment product conversions
Collaborates on product summer builds, contributes to fulfillment system setting directives to support inventory and balancing level initiatives
Serves as an expert in maintaining system settings for assigned customers and, or locations
Supports direct teams in resolving complex analysis for root cause and resolutions affecting visibility and processing in multiple systems
Supports the development, publishing, and maintenance of user system and specific functional area process training documentation
Supports onboarding larger segments of business and, or new emerging markets and documenting best practices for team utilization
Supports new hire onboarding process for system training initiatives