You'll be the planner of record for a plant and a portfolio of items and they'll be yours. Converting the demand forecast into a production plan that actually works, building and maintaining work orders, setting the planning parameters, and catching material and capacity constraints before they hit the floor. Your Senior Planner is there for oversight and escalation, but the day-to-day calls in your scope are yours to make.
Beyond your plant, you'll own the monthly IBP deck and coordinate the supply chain KPI suite for the whole organization. That gives you a view across the business that most planning roles never get.
The part that makes this role different: we want you automating your own job. If work order creation, reporting, or data reconciliation is eating your week, we want you building the solution AI-assisted workflows, Power Automate, Excel automation, scripting, whatever fits. This role exists to move the numbers, not to keep the lights on.
What you'll do
Own the supply plan. Develop and maintain the production plan for your assigned plant and items, turning the demand forecast into feasible, scheduled production requirements
Create and maintain work orders in the ERP, automating wherever you can so the plan anticipates production needs rather than reacting to them
Run material availability checks against the plan, catch shortages early, and drive resolution with Procurement and Production
Set and maintain planning parameters
safety stock, inventory targets, lot sizes, lead times
balancing service levels against inventory investment, and review them on a defined cadence
Monitor capacity against the plan for your lines, flag constraints ahead of time, and rebalance with the Senior Planner and Production
Track plan attainment, schedule adherence, inventory health, and shortage root causes, and use what you find to improve the plan
Own IBP and performance reporting
Prepare and coordinate the monthly IBP deck: gather inputs from Sales, Operations, Finance, and Supply Planning, and deliver it clean and on time to leadership review
Build and maintain the supply chain KPI suite and dashboards that surface supply, demand, inventory, and capacity risk before it becomes a problem
Support demand planning
maintain demand inputs, track forecast accuracy, and work with Sales and Commercial on assumptions that move the supply plan
Partner with Production, Procurement, Sales, and Commercial to align plans ahead of disruptions
Automate and improve
Find the processes ripe for automation, then design, build, and deploy the solution
and measure the impact in cycle time and error rates
Use AI tools to accelerate the analytical work: drafting reports, summarizing planning data, generating scenarios, surfacing patterns the team would otherwise miss
Document and standardize planning processes, and drive improvements from idea through execution and measurement
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Industrial Engineering, Business, or a related field
3+ years in supply chain, including hands-on supply or production planning (MRP, master scheduling, or plant-level planning), plus demand planning and S&OP/IBP exposure
Hands-on ERP experience
SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, xTuple, or equivalent
including the planning and work order modules
Solid grounding in planning fundamentals: safety stock, lot sizing, lead times, capacity, MRP logic
Advanced Excel: pivot tables, Power Query, advanced formulas, data modeling
Strong analytical instincts and real attention to detail
Ability to work on-site full-time
Preferred Qualifications
Hands-on use of AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, or similar) in a work setting
Power BI, Tableau, or comparable BI and visualization experience
Food manufacturing or CPG background
APICS / ASCM certification (CPIM, CSCP)
What we're looking for
An ownership mindset
you treat your plant and your items as your accountability, not a task list
Process discipline and comfort in the details
Steadiness in a fast-paced production environment
The ability to communicate clearly across functions and hold people to commitments
A self-starter's habit of finding the improvement rather than waiting for it to be assigned
Physical Requirements and Work Environment
- Primarily works at a computer workstation, viewing a screen and using a keyboard for extended periods
- Regularly moves about the office and production areas, including walking on concrete and occasionally wet or uneven surfaces
- Occasionally positions self to observe production lines, storage areas, and inventory
- Occasionally moves objects weighing up to 30 pounds
- Brief, intermittent exposure to refrigerated and frozen areas (approximately 34F to below 0F)
- Required PPE in production areas, which may include hairnet, smock, hearing protection, slip-resistant footwear, and insulated outerwear
- On-site, full-time; occasional extended hours around month-end IBP cycles or production disruptions