Planner Supply

Are you looking to catapult your career by driving high-impact transformation with household brands?  Do you crave an entrepreneurial, fast paced, and engaging growth assignment working with incredible people from across the globe?

At Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream, we are excited to start a new chapter of accelerated growth as part of Froneri – a global pure-play ice cream leader. Come help us transform DGIC into the #1 ice cream brand! With nearly 100 years of winning experience in the U.S, a robust portfolio of powerhouse brands that consumers know and love such as Häagen-Dazs, Drumstick, Dreyer’s & Edy’s, and the backing and coaching of European-based ice cream experts, we know we have the winning recipe.

Headquartered in Walnut Creek, the Bay Area’s hub for up-and-coming food trends, our teams across our offices and factories are raising the bar on all things ice cream. We are investing in significant capital expansions to grow our Operations and Supply chain and are transforming how we work at every level to become agile, accelerate growth and elevate our quality. With a renewed focus on frozen treats, our tight-knit team of ambitious innovators are fully immersed in the business and encouraged to flex and make decisions quickly. We are committed to pursuing every great idea and delivering the best ice cream experience for our consumers, when and where they want it.

Unleash your potential at Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream and discover what a sweet career we have in store for you.

Main Purpose of the job:

Manage the Supply plan of the assigned area of the business by replenishing each product to meet objectives, whilst maintaining optimal stock cover that also considers, Ensure the alignment of the Supply Plan across partners through the daily, weekly, and monthly business review and Collaborative Planning processes. Identify and manage exceptions and monitor performance to continually improve the quality and reliability of the supply Plan and the Company’s ability to sense and respond to changing circumstances, and provide a consistently short-term plan, capacity plan, and long term production plans with feasible and realistic sequenced product in accordance with the availability of resources (production lines/ labor) and materials.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Create a feasible Supply plan within the plan period that takes into consideration available capacity, available labor, available materials, that respects the product family sequencing as determined, by the demand long-term planner and best optimizes the factory's ability to produce the SKUs within the families.
• Conducting the planning meeting with the relevant functions, meeting minutes via email.
• Establish a 12-week production plan for the factories within your scope of responsibility with minimum changeovers and zero downtime.
• Ensuring timely system is up to date to reflect the change and highlight any Increase/Decrease in demand and the impact.
• Identification of the practical concerning of the plan, production shutdowns, CIP, preventive maintenance and activate within the detailed plan period.
• Capacity to learn the planning process of other facilities within the business including Bakersfield, Tulare, Fort Wayne, and Laurel.
• Identification of possible opportunities for the factory within the detailed plan period.
• Identification of the potential issues for the factory within the detailed plan period and evaluate the risks and offer solutions.
• Give advance information in Daily / Weekly to ensure alignment with team and cross function on requirements within the detailed plan period.
• Manage the relationship and the effective flow of information between the Planning function and internal business partners such as Customer Service, Logistics, Procurement, Operations, Sales, Marketing, Quality, NPD and Finance.
• Effective contribution and participation in the Business Planning process according to Best Practice.
• Relevant information analyzed and communicated to Senior Management by sharing the KPIs; performance gaps highlighted; detailed information on the impact of proposed actions and trade-offs available and proposed actions are realistic and achievable.
• Ensure proper cascading of KPI’s to drive ownership and alignment across the organization.
• Supply Planning Principles, Process and Best Practice: Capacity Planning; Production Planning and Scheduling; Manufacturing Performance and Management and planning of inventory
• Impact of, and relationship between: Product portfolio (type of demand, seasonality, lifecycle status, shelf life); Master Production & Detailed Production.
• Can effectively develop and support maintaining standard operating procedures.
• Managed NPDs plan across all dept