Senior Supply Planner
Land O'Lakes•Arden Hills, MN
•$93,360 - $140,040•Hybrid
About The Position
As a Senior Supply Planner, you are responsible for production, inventory, and capacity planning for tub, block and mineral finished goods to supply the entire network of Purina Animal Nutrition. This role is located at our corporate headquarters in Arden Hills, MN (In office Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday each week).
Requirements
- Bachelors degree
- 3-5+ years experience in inventory management, production planning or related field
- Systems background in MRP/DRP planning tools or customer order management systems
- Ability to lead meetings and drive consensus and action plans
- Ability to manage multiple tasks, prioritize and plan daily planning activities
- Proven communication skills
- Quantitative skills; ability to analyze data
- PowerBI user experience
- Ability to solve problems and make decisions in a timely manner
- Ability to work well under pressure and provide follow-up with strong attention to detail
Responsibilities
- Developing and improving inventory strategies to balance supply with forecasted demand to meet defined customer service goals while balancing and minimizing age risk
- Balance direct customer vs downstream demand
- Collaborating with plants to improve production scheduling efficiencies
- Leading monthly Sales and Operation Planning (S&OP) meetings to provide insights to accomplish working capital reduction and drive team towards alignment on strategies
- Raise open and constrained capacity to the cross functional team
- Compiling meaningful data and insights to influence key business partners to align on executing proactive decisions that aid in balancing age and service expectations
- Leading discussions on upcoming supply risks tied to aligned-on decisions by cross functional partners
- Track KPI’s and compile data to share with cross functional team to pivot supply plan according to KPI results
- Work with transportation to improve transportation efficiencies
- Work with warehousing to improve space utilization
- Helping drive a data driven decision-making culture
- Improving current systems and tools
Benefits
- A broad portfolio of benefits to keep you and your family at your best
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
