Director, Supply Planning & Material Management

Description

ABOUT GOLDEN STATE FOODS

Golden State Foods is a distinguished leader in the food service industry, offering an extensive array of products and services to a diverse clientele. Rooted in the values of quality service and integrity, we are dedicated to creating a supportive and inclusive atmosphere where employees can advance, innovate, and contribute to our ongoing success.

ABOUT THE JOB

The Director, Supply Planning & Material Management provides leadership and direction planning and managing material requirements, production scheduling, warehouse and customer service to meet GSF objectives for quality, efficiency, productivity, and customer satisfaction.

The Director, Supply Planning & Material Management will generate a clear understanding of the Master Demand Plan of the site based on the LPNA S&OP process to produce an effective local supply plan ensuring the highest level of service while maximizing efficient use of supply chain resources, site assets and inventories.

The ideal candidate combines strong warehouse and distribution leadership with advanced MRP expertise, ERP discipline (D365 preferred), and a proven ability to lead in a fast-paced, shelf-life–sensitive manufacturing environment.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Drive site-level materials planning and production scheduling ensuring an uninterrupted supply of finished products for the customers and to maximize efficient operations and production capitalizing the LPNA Master Plan, demand forecast inputs and MRP tool.
• Responsible for overseeing resulting customer sales orders & shipments fulfillment and the service performance for the site; scope of sales orders fulfillment and resulting service levels.
• Manages and develops the site warehouse operation, this includes setting policies and measures to ensure inventory accuracy, expense management, warehouse efficiencies and P&L management.
• Manage and develop the warehouse processes that interact and support the production operations such as batching, kitting and returns while acting as a separate entity to the liquid’s production operation.
• Responsible to drive correct use of the D365 ERP planning functions based on recognized supply chain science, to ensure integrity of data with strong focus on MRP planning parameters, review and recommend improvements in the development of informational tools to support operating decisions, materials management, warehousing and accounting.
• Audits operational procedures and programs to identify and implement improvements in product availability, storage optimization, receiving and shipping, sanitation, security and inventory accuracy, resulting in increased efficiencies and productivity.
• Lead the team in managing Working Capital for raw materials and finished goods to plan, monitor finished goods and raw materials to reduce excess inventory and reduce shortages
• Lead the team in minimizing scrap due to expiration and obsolescence of inventories.
• Generates various inventory reports shared across several cross-functional teams, produce intelligence.
• Maintains clear communication with Sales, Product Development, Commercialization, Quality Assurance, Customer Service, Operations, and Procurement to ensure the organization’s affective plans.

Administrative:

• Responsible for developing the manufacturing site supply chain strategic direction and goals, ensuring alignment with Plant and LPNA Divisional Strategic objectives.
• Responsible for monitoring the adequacy of action plans to meet the plant’s objectives, monitoring performance toward achieving key performance indicators, and ensuring alignment throughout the entire organization.
• Manages all assigned staff including training and development, performance evaluations, career development and TPM training. Assists in the recruitment and selection of…