Production Planner - Food Manufacturing

Title: Production Planner - Food Manufacturing (7am-4pm) 
Location: Owensboro, KY - Relocation Assistance Available 
Salary: $75,000-$90,000/Year + 10% Bonus & Benefits 
Requirements: 5+ Years in a Production/Supply chain management role with experience in the food and beverage industry.  A strong understanding of supply chain management, and high speed manufacturing would make this candidate stand out! Leadership and the ability to understand forecasting and inventory plans for finished goods is needed for this role. 

The Production/ Materials Planner will develop sales and inventory plans to ensure product availability to support sales while managing inventory levels. This role will also support inventory projections and analytics to support the company's inventory strategies and service level goals. This member will be a conduit to the corporate and plant operations team.

What You Will Be Doing

• Analyze trends to develop seasonal sales and inventory plans for finished goods.
• Create, maintain, and track Purchase Orders (finished goods and raw materials) to ensure delivery is on time and complete.
• Coordinate production planning and raw material inventories while monitoring the utilization of all raw materials within shelf-life requirements.
• Ability to resolve scheduling conflicts, materials delays and last-minute production requests.
• Provides reporting and analytics on optimized vs actual inventory levels and key drivers of service and inventory issues with recommended actions. 
• Utilize internal ERP system to schedule manage and track all areas of production to ensure finished goods orders are filled on time and in full.
• Foster positive working relationships with key vendors by supplying forward looking forecasts and communicating regularly.
• This position requires a high level of collaboration with Customer Service, Sales, Production, Operations, and QA/RD departments.
• Performs other related duties as required and assigned.

What You Need for this Position

Bachelor's degree preferred

• 5+ years in production, planning, supply chain management experience in the food/beverage industry preferred

• Intermediate/Advanced Outlook, Work, and Excel Skills required

• QuickBooks experience preferred

• Strong Math Skills

• Excellent time management skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Detail oriented and ability to multi-task

• Ability to collaborate with other teams across the company in a process-driven, exception-based, time sensitive process to achieve results.

• Ability to think critically, apply logic and common sense to solve complex operational and production scheduling problems

What's In It for You

For this position you must be currently authorized to work in the United States. We do not sponsor for this position.