Supply & Inventory Planner

Want to build a stronger, more sustainable future and cultivate your career? Join Cargill's global team of 160,000 employees who are committed to safe, responsible and sustainable ways to nourish the world. This position is in Cargill’s food ingredients and bio-industrial business, where we anticipate trends around taste, nutrition and safety to innovate and provide solutions to manufacturers, retailers and foodservice companies.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Supply and Inventory Planner will contribute to coordinating long term supply chain strategies across networks to address capacity issues and production location decisions in support of business goals. In this role, you will monitor key integrated business planning performance indicators, cost to serve performance data and help coordinate cross functional work teams to meet high customer service standards.

Key Accountabilities

• Maintain the target inventory positions and take action on aging or expired inventories.
• Generate and execute cycle and safety stock plans for the assigned product or location, using the approved supply plan inputs.
• Develop gap coverage plans during inventory shortages.
• Create requirements plan and long term supply plan for assigned products and locations as input for the integrated business planning cycle.
• Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Other duties as assigned

Position Information

• Relocation assistance will not be provided for this position.
• This position is open at all CSSTNA locations: Wayzata, MN - Dayton, OH - Minneapolis, MN - Wahpeton, ND - Cedar Rapids, Iowa - Fort Dodge, IA - Eddyville, IA - Hammond, IN - Blair, NE - Memphis, TN. – Miami, FL

Qualifications

Minimum Required

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Minimum of two years of related work experience

 

Preferred 

• Three years of experience with at least one in supply and inventory planning
• Experience in SAP 
• Ability to work with cross functional teams
• Proficient with Excel 

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet