Summary
Responsible for managing the materials planning process within the supply chain organization. Executes
against customer demand to ensure materials are available. Works closely with suppliers to develop and
improve key parameters while managing day-today activities and continuous improvement initiatives that will improve process flow and cost savings initiatives.

Essential Functions
This job description reflects management’s assignment of essential functions; it does not prescribe or restrict the tasks that may be assigned.
• Conducts daily activities to ensure materials are available on time to meet production and customer commitment dates while adhering to key planning parameters.
• Uses rigorous analysis to optimize material availability, inventory levels, and safety stock.
• Ensures that all action/exception messages are prioritized, reviewed and problems are acted upon in a timely manner.
• Reviews and executes purchase recommendations, obtains appropriate authorization, and submits to suppliers for procurement of goods. Partners with vendors to obtain product or service information such as prices, availability, and delivery schedule.
• Maintains procurement records such as items or services purchased, cost, delivery, and product specifications.
• Evaluates supplies based on performance, price, quality and service.
• Works cross functionally to improve and sustain performance of suppliers. Discusses defective or
unacceptable goods or services with inspection of quality control personnel, users, vendors and others to determine source of trouble and take corrective action. Returns non-conforming, defective products. Follows-up on credits.
• Approves invoices for payment and validates receipt of materials.
• Collaborates with logistics partners to schedule material deliveries. Investigates and develops new supply sources.
• Achieves cost and service goals.
• Maintains an ongoing focus on stability, service, inventory, and supply chain efficiencies while developing, implementing, and overseeing the strategy and execution of material.
• If supporting the Closure operation, this role will operate to maintain ISO qualification standards.
• If supporting the Label operation, this role will execute all supply planning tasks across multiple
plant locations.
• Maintains satisfactory attendance, to include timeliness.
• Responsible for understanding and complying with applicable quality, environmental and safety
regulatory considerations. If accountable for the work of others, responsible for ensuring their understanding and compliance.

Qualifications
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Minimum Qualifications
• High school diploma or State-issued equivalency certificate.
• Bachelor’s degree plus 2 years of supply chain, production, operations, or financial analysis experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility; Or Bachelor’s degree plus 1 year of G3 supply chain, production, operations, or financial analysis experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility; Or High school diploma or State-issued equivalency certificate plus 6 years supply chain, production, operations, or financial analysis experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility; Or High school diploma or State-issued equivalency certificate plus 5 years of G3 supply chain, production, operations, or financial analysis experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility.

Preferred Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with a Supply Chain Management concentration plus 5 years of supply chain planning experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility.
• Master’s degree.
• Skilled in reading, analyzing, and interpreting various reports and documents.
• Skilled in presenting issues clearly and concisely.
• Skilled in generating accurate analysis, with a good understanding of the cause and effect that will
occur with each alternative solution both inside and outside of the Supply Chain organization.
• Experience working and participating in cross-functional decision-making processes with all levels
and functions within the company.
• Skilled in applying mathematical operations to such tasks as frequency distribution, determination
of test reliability and validity, analysis of variance, correlation techniques, sampling theory of factor
analysis.
• Skilled in the use of MS Word and MS Excel, and MS PowerPoint, MS Access at an intermediate level.
• Skilled in the use of ERP and Procurement Systems, including Radius, SAP and Ariba.
• Skilled in defining problems, collecting data, establishing facts, and drawing valid and concise
conclusions or recommendations.
• Skilled in interpreting an extensive variety of data related to various situations dealing with both abstract and concrete variables.
• Skilled in presenting information to supervisors and teams.

Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to
successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit; use hands to finger,
handle, or feel; and talk to hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, and reach with
hands and arms. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.

Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate

Compensation

Hiring Hourly Rate: $33.03 - $41.30

Actual compensation amount paid may be lower or higher to be determined by factors other than race and gender such as the education, experience, knowledge, skills and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data.

Perks & Benefits

This position includes a competitive benefits package.

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