Sr. Manager, Supply Planning

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At Lactalis in the USA, we’re committed to providing meaningful opportunities for our people to learn, grow, and thrive-whether you’re just starting your journey with us or looking to take the next step in your career. From day one, we offer the tools and support to help you succeed.

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

In the US, we proudly offer an unrivaled house of beloved brands, including Galbani Italian cheeses and ricotta, President 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 a growing family of ethnic favorites like Karoun, Gopi, and Arz.

At Lactalis, we live by our core values-Ambition, Engagement, and Simplicity. We foster 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 shape the future of dairy.

From your PASSION to ours

Responsible for leading the Raw Materials and Finished Goods Planning process to ensure achievement of the business plan, support company initiatives and customer requirements. Deliver, lead and execute the short, medium and long range plan to drive revenue generation through customer fill rate delivery, optimize cash flow investment while minimizing manufacturing and distribution cost and product waste. Responsible for ensuring the continuity of supply of raw and packaging materials to production facilities. Coordinate finished goods supply planning, materials and inventory management through strong cross functional partnership with Marketing, Procurement, R&D, Suppliers, Quality, Plants, Product Change Managers, and Finance. Optimizes the balance between supply availability, inventory investment and risk of obsolescence.?

From your STORY to ours

Materials Management

• Ensure flawless execution of the materials management aspects of commercialization and change management initiatives to ensure customer and productivity commitments are met by establishment and maintenance of effective communications with internal contacts (R&D, Procurement, Quality, Finance, Marketing, Plants, BU leadership) and external contacts (suppliers & External Manufacturers). Deliver transition strategy alternatives to the BU which enable cost-based decisions. Execute transition plan to minimize write-offs.
• Ensure availability of materials through delivery of supplier forecasts, supplier collaboration, establishment of effective communications and monitoring of key touch points. This delivers capability to produce finished goods as desired to enable delivery of service level to customers.?
• Develop and implement optimal inventory replenishment strategies with Procurement, Suppliers, and Plants which align with BU manufacturing strategy, desired service levels, and BU risk profile. This provides cost-based supplier run rules and clarifies liability for supplier held inventory.
• Develop and lead inventory reduction initiatives entailing optimization of SAP MRP parameters, total supply chain process improvement, and Application of Lean principles. Ensure cash flow goals (eg. Inventory $$ & DIOH are met)
• Minimize impact of unneeded excess inventory through transfer to other Kraft locations, return to supplier, or salvage sale (ingredients).?
• Provide input to Procurement on projected volumes, business changes, supplier performance, and contractual needs so that Procurement can write contracts that serve the BUs and minimize total cost?
• Manage major supply disruptions driven by extraordinary events (flood, supplier bankruptcy, supplier Equipment failure, major quality issues, etc).?
• Understand supplier capacity constraints and have appropriate contingency plans in place to maintain supply when capacity is exceeded.?
• Maintain key data impacting job function such as contract balances and material discontinuation
• Continuously improve job processes and provide continuous improvement suggestions for the larger Materials Management Function.

Finished Goods Planning

• Ensure weekly production and inventory deployment plans are maintained to sufficiently achieve customer fill rate targets as well as inventory objectives
• Lead weekly cross functional discussions to review service performance, KPI’s impacting service and supply, Root Cause on major deviations, and outlook based on documented assumptions
• Lead the feasibility reviews to assess ability to support near term changes in demand and engage cross functional alignment when decision are required around prioritization of available supply
• Collaborate with Plants (Lactalis operated as well as copackers) to ensure daily weekly schedules are in alignment with the overall supply and inventory plan, and opportunities to drive efficiencies in operations and scheduling are pursued
• Lead the Monthly IBP/S&OP Supply Review, providing content/context of the long term supply and inventory plans, highlighting areas of risk (capacity, materials supply) in meeting business objectives, prepare options to mitigate and secure decisions from appropriate stakeholders
• Serve as the supply lead in the commercialization process linking operational plans with new product development initiatives. Ensure production and deployment plans are in place to support launch plans, while minimizing risk of obsolesce
• Develop a strong understanding of the manufacturing and distribution processes and direct the planning team to operate within the given constraints, while continuously pursuing opportunities that will drive benefit for the company and its customers.
• Implement, maintain, and continuously improve routines, ways-of-working to drive team focus on results and delivery of operational objectives (engagement, service, cost, cash)

Requirements

From your EXPERTISE to ours

• 8-10 years of Supply Chain experience with at least 5 years in Finished Goods and/or Material Planning roles
• Cross functional experience, preferably in manufacturing or commercial/customer facing roles
• 2+ years leading teams (3 or more). Experience leading people managers preferred
• FMCG background. Food Industry experience preferred.?
• Experience operating in S&OP / Integrated Business Planning environments
• Comprehensive understanding of integrated supply chain planning processes, tools (SAP, FutureMaster, Logility, JDA, etc..)
• Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain, Engineering or Business Field. Masters Degree preferred as well industry certifications (APICS, CSCMP, IBF)

This job description is intended to summarize the overall level of responsibility of the job and is not an exhaustive list of all the duties performed.

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 committed to your professional growth, providing training and development opportunities, including education Reimbursement. Join us and grow your career.

Lactalis is an equal employment opportunity employer. We will not discriminate against applicants with regard to any legally-recognized basis including, but not limited to: veteran status, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, and physical or mental disabilities. Further, any division of the Company that is an Affirmative Action Employer will comply with all related legal obligations.

Salary Description

$130,000 – $145,000