Specialist, Supply & Inventory

Specialist, Supply & Inventory | Primient About Primient Primient is a century old company with an entrepreneurial spirit. We are a leading producer of food and industrial ingredients made from plant-based, renewable sources. We deliver value through deep technical, commercial, and operational excellence that is backed by our long-standing corn wet milling heritage. Wherever we are in the process, from field to customer, our priorities are focused on ensuring we produce the safest, highest quality products through practices that uphold both our responsibility and commitments to the challenge and drive for excellence, our people and our planet.

We are a privately held company with locations across the US, Mexico, Poland, and Brazil. W e’re investing in our plants and people to unlock our potential in the industrial and food sectors. Guided by our values of Safety, Excellence, Integrity, and Growth, we’re focused on growing our business, our reputation, and the career of every teammate.

About Primient Primient is a century old company with an entrepreneurial spirit. We are a leading producer of food and industrial ingredients made from plant-based, renewable sources. We deliver value through deep technical, commercial, and operational excellence that is backed by our long-standing corn wet milling heritage. Wherever we are in the process, from field to customer, our priorities are focused on ensuring we produce the safest, highest quality products through practices that uphold both our responsibility and commitments to the challenge and drive for excellence, our people and our planet.

We are a privately held company with locations across the US, Mexico, Poland, and Brazil. We’re investing in our plants and people to unlock our potential in the industrial and food sectors. Guided by our values of Safety, Excellence, Integrity, and Growth, we’re focused on growing our business, our reputation, and the career of every teammate.

About the Role The Specialist, Supply & Inventory Planner sits within Supply Chain Planning and ensures short- term production plans align with forecasts, customer orders, inventory targets, and delivery timelines. while exemplifying Primient’s values of integrity and excellence. Collaborating across supply chain, sales, customer service, manufacturing and external suppliers/vendors, this role ensures seamless execution of production schedules for the 0–3-month window to meet customer needs and operational goals.

Key responsibilities

Production Planning :
Develop and manage production schedules for each facility to meet target inventories based on the Consensus Demand Plan and made-to-order products, while accounting for planned downtime. Communicate planned production rates and packaging requirements to Supply Chain and Operations.

Material Management:
Schedule shipments of base materials to other locations to meet monthly production and demand plans, and p urchase imported materials from Brazil to support replenishment sales in North America, utilizing the Consensus File.

Performance Metrics and Reporting:
Adhere to department key performance indicators (KPIs) and responding to available to promise (ATP) sales orders to achieve a 95% response time goal. Ensure timely material placement in warehouses to minimize scheduling issue failures (PXO FATP). Inventory Oversight:
Manage warehouse inventories to ensure first in first out (FIFO) compliance, address , short pallets, and resolve blocked or aging materials. Minimize and reduce inventory of unwanted materials through collaboration with Sales, Customer Service and Quality.

Risk Identification and Management:
Identify risks that may impact production or inventory levels, escalating issues to managers and the business as needed.

Demand Alignment:
Communicate issues to Demand Planning that could jeopardize meeting planned monthly production targets. Work closely with Product Managers to ensure a smooth and consistent pull of contracted products by analyzing customer data.

Order Management:
Approve customer orders based on product availability, forecast, inventory levels, and lead times.

Collaboration and Communication:
Communicating…