Plant Supply Planner

Description

 Looking for a job that can grow into a lifelong career?
At Lactalis USA, we believe in promoting from within and giving our employees meaningful opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Whether you’re just starting out or bringing years of experience, we’ll provide the tools and support you need to succeed.

Lactalis is the world leader in dairy—a family-owned company with over 85,000 pragmatic and ambitious professionals across the globe. Every day, we’re proud to produce award-winning dairy products that bring people together every day.

In the US, we offer an unrivaled house of beloved brands, including Galbani® Italian cheeses and ricotta, Président® specialty cheeses and butters, Kraft® natural and grated cheeses, Breakstone’s® cottage cheese, Cracker Barrel®, Black Diamond® cheddar, and Parmalat® milk. Our yogurt portfolio includes siggi’s®, Stonyfield Organic®, Brown Cow™, Oui®, Yoplait®, Go-Gurt®, :ratio®, Green Mountain Creamery®, and Mountain High®, along with sour cream and a growing family of ethnic favorites like Karoun®, Gopi®, and Arz®.

At Lactalis, we live by our core values—Ambition, Engagement, and Simplicity. We’re building a workplace where innovation thrives, diverse perspectives are celebrated, and everyone’s unique background and ideas are valued.

Even if you don’t meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply. We want to hear about your PASSION, your STORY, and how your EXPERTISE can help us make an impact. 

From your PASSION to ours

The plant supply planner is a member of the plant support team responsible for the following:

• Developing the manufacturing schedule: work with vendors, sourcing, transportation, operations, and corporate logistics to develop production schedules, support new items, discontinuations, and promotions
• Develop the raw material plan: manage inbound material flow, supply disruptions, product changes, and material age
• Execute the deployment plan to maintain the highest service level at lowest possible cost

Requirements

 From your EXPERTISE to ours

Key responsibilities for this position include:

• Execute deployment plan to service our warehouse product needs
• Develop finite schedule to optimize plant operations balanced with the needs of the business.
• Build raw material plan to support manufacturing plant schedule, including placing PO’s, expediting materials, coordinating material changes, and managing costs associated with raw materials, using SAP ERP.
• Support plant logistics goals of raw material days of supply and material disruptions.
• Participate in rate setting process for manufacturing systems.
• Deliver outstanding daily results through process rigor, attention to detail, sense of urgency and time management.
• Have strong understanding of plant manufacturing floor capabilities.
• Communicate across multiple functions & levels regarding business opportunities & risk.
• Influence cross functional partners through root cause analysis (i.e., inventory control, vendor performance indicators, and transportation opportunities).
• Lead plant projects that support supply chain cost avoidance goals.
• Manage plant events that require scheduling/raw material/deployment changes with minimal cost implications.
• Communicate and build relationships with vendors for material procurement.

From your STORY to ours

Qualified applicants will contribute the following: 

• Bachelor's degree plus 3 years of related experience OR High School Diploma/GED and 6 years of related experience
• Strong organizational skills and ability to prioritize
• Embrace process standardization and champion change
• Possess a high level of initiative and energy to influence and lead change
• Commitment to superior customer service and ability to build cross-functional relationships
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written)
• Solid computer background (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
• Ability to flex hours to support 24/7 manufacturing site

Preferred Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, logistics, or business
• SAP/IPT experience (OMP/APO/MRP/ERP) or other similar planning system
• Manufacturing plant experience

At Lactalis, we offer a comprehensive Total Rewards Program with a variety of affordable benefits and coverage options. We support insurance costs significantly, contribute generously to retirement plans, and offer Paid Time Off from day one. We are comm