Supply Planner

The Supply Planner is part of Darigold’s supply planning team in Seattle. They play a central role in production and inventory planning by developing, maintaining, and publishing a Master Production Schedule (MPS) and inventory reporting for Darigold’s consumer products. The Supply Planner will gain a deep understanding of the consumer products business and make recommendations on production strategies to leadership. Success in this role is determined by ability to manage supply plans and scenarios, build strong cross-functional relationships, and think creatively within a complex business environment to maximize business results through superior customer order fulfillment.

Additionally, this position has the opportunity to influence the business at a strategic level by maintaining and enhancing capacity models, contributing to Darigold’s monthly supply review process, and refining business planning processes.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities (other duties may be assigned):

• Provide a production plan to plants considering customer demand profiles, inventory age, plant capacities, materials availability and other factors
• Build maintain intermediate range (12-18 month) supply models of the business, identifying gaps in capabilities vs demand, and making recommendations to leadership of reconciliation options
• Provide inventory forecasts to leadership based on the supply and demand plan to support strategic inventory management decisions
• Own capacity modeling process for your respective plants based on demonstrated capabilities and expected future step-changes
• Partner with sales, logistics, and customer service to ensure orders are shipped on-time and in full
• Partner with sales, logistics, customer service, and demand planning to ensure supply is consumed within it’s saleable life and minimize inventory write-downs
• Maintain master item data integrity to ensure accurate reporting and high-integrity plans within the organization
• Learn the processes and duties of other planning areas to provide backup as needed
• Manage seasonal SKU activity and plan for inventory builds
• Continuously improve effectiveness of cross-cutting decision making and execution processes in order to meet organizational financial and service objectives
• Maintains ownership and accuracy of master data for the Supply Planning organization and works cross functionally with IT as necessary to maintain

 Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in business, finance, operations, or supply chain
• 3 years of experience in supply planning, inventory management, or supply chain
• 3 years of experience in a manufacturing field in an analytical or planning role
• Strong computer skills with expertise in Microsoft Excel required
• Skilled in other Microsoft Office products (PowerPoint, Outlook)
• Strong analytical capability
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated organization, follow-up, and detail orientation
• Ability to prioritize competing assignments and meet established deadlines

 Education, Experience and Certifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, business, or related field or equivalent work experience
• 3 years: Manufacturing Field in an Analytical or Planning role
• 3 years: Supply Planning, Inventory Management or Supply Chain

Preferred Education, Experience and Certifications

• APICS CPIM certification or equivalent
• Advanced degree in business, finance, operations or supply chain
• Experience using reports in Microsoft PowerBI
• Experience running/writing queries in SQL
• Experience with Microsoft Power Query and Power Pivot

Benefits of Working at Darigold

We understand that as an employee, benefits that support you and your family in and out of work are important. We’re proud to offer eligible positions a competitive total rewards package – that includes:

• Employer 401K contribution of up to 9%
• Comprehensive medical, dental & vision benefits
• Employer-paid life & disability coverage
• Paid time off and paid holidays
• 8 weeks of paid parental leave
• Education assistance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible working arrangement where applied (up to 2 days/week after initial 90 days and approval by hiring manager and HR)
• Compensation range: $78,381 to $ 107,722 (individual wage based on previous experience, knowledge, and skills)

Our Commitment to Diversity

Achieving our vision to Lead Dairy Forward requires cultivating and supporting a team with varying backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We are committed to providing a workplace based on mutual respect where all employees feel included and can bring their best and authentic selves to work every day. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and Affirmative Action Employer. We welcome all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability, marital status, creed, religion, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. As a condition of employment applicants offered a role will be required to successfully pass our pre-employment background screen, receive a negative drug screen result & confirm eligibility to work in the U.S. We participate in E-Verify - please follow the links for details, English / Spanish & view our Right to Work Statement, English / Spanish.

Salary : $78,381 - $107,722