Category Inventory Planner

Employee Type:

Full time

Location:

IL Oak Brook

Job Type:

Supply Chain Planning

Job Posting Title:

Category Inventory Planner

About Us: 

TreeHouse Foods (NYSE: THS) is a leading manufacturer of private label packaged foods and beverages, operating a network of over 20 production facilities and several corporate offices across the United States and Canada. At TreeHouse Foods, our commitment to excellence extends beyond our products and revolves around our people. We are investing in talent and creating a performance-based culture where employees can do their best work and develop their careers, directly impacting our mission to make high quality, affordable food for our customers, communities, and families. We hope you will consider joining the team and being part of our future.

Named one of America’s Best Large Employers by Forbes Magazine, we are proud to live by a strong set of values and strive to "Engage and Delight – One Customer at a Time." Guided by our values—Own It, Commit to Excellence, Be Agile, Speak Up, and Better Together. We are a diverse team driven by integrity, accountability, and a commitment to exceptional results. We embrace change, prioritize continuous learning, and foster collaboration, transparency, and healthy debate. Together, we set each other up for success to achieve enterprise-wide goals.

What You Gain: 

• Competitive compensation and benefits program with no waiting period – you’re eligible from your first day!

• 401(k) program with 5% employer match and 100% vesting as soon as you enroll.

• Comprehensive paid time off opportunities, including immediate access to four weeks of vacation, five sick days, parental leave and 11 company holidays (including two floating holidays).

• Leaders who are invested in supporting your accelerated career growth, plus paid training, tuition reimbursement and a robust educational platform – DevelopU – with more than 10,000 free courses to support you along the way.

• An inclusive working environment where you can build meaningful work relationships with a diverse group of professionals. Take advantage of opportunities to build on our team-oriented culture, such as joining one of our Employee Resource Groups.

• Access to our wellness and employee assistance programs.

Job Description:

About the Role:

Join our team as a Category Inventory Planner at our corporate office in Oak Brook, IL. In this role, you will manage exit strategies for customer product transitions, graphic redesigns, packaging changes, and distressed or aged inventory. You will be responsible for overseeing the procurement and execution of material requirements, ensuring material availability for production while effectively balancing working capital and warehousing constraints.

You’ll add value to this role by performing various functions including, but not limited to:

• Serve as primary point of contact for the company when supply issues arise. Work with sales, planning, replenishment, customer service and various others to communicate action plans.
• Manage Product Lifecycle Management activity and discontinued products as they enter/leave our business. Ensure a positive transition for customers and departments within the company.
• Assist cross-functional communication on issues for label development of new labels, redesigned labels, packaging changes, formula changes, etc. to ensure expected customer service expectations.
• Communicate issues with forecasting – either purchases of significantly more or less than the forecast. Work with Sales, Demand Planning and Customer Service to get more accurate numbers in the system to allow for better customer planning and service.
• Work closely with scheduling and material planning to help to maintain targeted inventory levels
• Review underperforming SKU’s and partners with Sales/Marketing to improve efficiencies across the network
• Develop and maintain long inventory reports, and work on both root-cause analysis and disposition of inventory, as well as corrective-actions to limit future long inventory.
• Aids in the development of inventory entitlement plans and tracking performance against plans.

Important Details:

• This is a full-time, hybrid role on first shift, based in our Oak Brook, IL office.
• The anticipated compensation for this position ranges from $61,900 to $92,900 annually. This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An