Associate Supply Planner

Prestige Consumer Healthcare is a company that focuses on product innovation and quality in the over-the-counter healthcare and women’s health categories to better improve the lives of our customers and their world.

For generations, our trusted brands have helped consumers care for themselves and their loved ones. We are the largest independent provider of over-the-counter products in North America, and we are constantly improving and creating products that match the ever-changing lifestyles and needs of people and families everywhere.

The Associate Supply Planner will be responsible for supply planning for our smaller brands. The individual will have responsibility for managing and performing detailed finished goods production planning, inventory management, and purchasing functions within the supply planning team. The role is accountable for all assigned supply management activities for multiple over the counter (OTC) drug and personal care products. While the role is geared toward an individual with little supply planning experience, the individual will bear the same responsibilities as both Supply Planners and Senior Supply Planners.

This role actively contributes and takes a leadership role within a cross functional team in the discovery, development and delivery to customers of current and newly launched products. This role offers visibility and opportunity to contribute directly to the company's success by achieving target service level goals, inventory levels, launching new products on time, and minimizing finished good and component obsolescence.

The integrity of the data is maintained via a series of transactions and reports that are viewed as dictated by our supply planning processes. Also required is the ability to solve problems as needed by working with suppliers and the distribution center. These functions include:

• Performs master production scheduling for assigned brands.
• Utilizes SAP MRP for managing supply planning duties. Issues PO’s and forecasts to contract manufacturers.
• Develops and maintains safety stock levels for all finished goods.
• Responsible for inventory management of all finished goods and select components.
• Identifies opportunities for inventory reduction and reduces waste/scrap.
• Responsible for over 30 planning fields in SAP master data.
• Works with cross functional teams including Marketing, Sales, Strategic Sourcing, Project Management
• Product Innovation, Packaging Development, Quality, Regulatory, Tech Transfers, Logistics, and Customer Service.
• Participate in project team meetings to update the teams on supply chain management topics.
• Coordinates efforts with Sourcing and/or Quality for resolution of supplier issues.
• Works with accounting to resolve payment issues, assists in identifying and resolving inventory discrepancies.
• Communicates to management and the project team, material and/or supplier problems that may impact the supply chain along with possible solutions.
• Resolves discrepancies with quantity, delivery, cost, and quality proactively and reactively.
• Responsible for various weekly / monthly reports.
• Ad hoc tasks and analysis per manager’s request.

• Bachelor’s degree in a business-related field or supply chain.

• Self-motivated individual who can work well independently in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to be persistent but maintain excellent relationships with others
• Strong attention to detail
• Proactive critical thinking
• Ability to analyze and solve problems via investigations across multiple platforms
• Strong Excel proficiency
• Excellent verbal and written skills
• SAP knowledge preferred but not required
• 2+ years of similar experience preferred

5% ability to travel via car, plane, rail.