Material Planner

Why work for Dawn Foods?

Dawn Foods is a global leader in bakery manufacturing and ingredients distribution. As the partner of choice for inspiring bakery success, we help customers grow their business through meaningful partnerships, research-driven insights and innovations, and products and expertise they can depend on. As a family-owned company, our commitments to our people, products, customers, and corporate values, are all part of our recipe for success.

• Industry-leading health insurance on Day 1!
• Competitive Pay
• 401(K) + company match
• 10 Paid Company Holidays
• Paid Time Off
• Professional training
• Family-owned business over 100 years in service
• An opportunity for career advancement, working as part of an empowering workforce

In close partnership with the Supply Planning Manager, the primary responsibility of this role is to ensure the necessary ingredients, packaging, and buy/sell materials are available in-house to meet the production schedule and meet our customers' fill rate expectations. The individual in this role is accountable for achieving material planning KPIs, including targeted inventory levels, minimal obsolescence costs, and reduced expedited freight costs.

Strong collaboration with scheduling, warehousing, inventory control, and production is critical to success.

Work Setting & Travel Requirements: The position is hybrid with expectations to work on-site at the Louisville Manufacturing Facility 3 days per week. Candidates must reside in Louisville, KY, or the surrounding areas for consideration. Relocation assistance is not available for this role.

• Create purchase orders for plant raw material, packaging, and buy/sell purchases utilizing existing approved vendors and Dawn Buying Programs to ensure the timely receipt of quality goods and materials.
• Maintain targeted inventory levels in adherence with best-in-class practices at Dawn.
• Work to resolve availability issues with a sense of urgency and elevate to Supply Planning Manager & Procurement (supplier issues) when or if there are production scheduling implications or customer shortages.
• Continuously look for improvement opportunities within one’s responsibilities and those that impact the supply chain results.
• If necessary, will perform required expediting functions to meet customer and production scheduling requirements, but the main objective will be to avoid added costs.
• Works closely with scheduling and inventory control to make sure ingredient inventory is available to meet the production plan and line stoppages are avoided.
• Interfaces with Accounts Payable and Purchasing Departments to resolve P.O. pricing and/or quantity issues and encourage prompt vendor payments.
• Demonstrates the “Dawn Values” of Team Dawn and supports the Dawn Circle of Excellence.
• Additional tasks or objectives as assigned.

Below are the minimum qualifications to be a fit for this job.

• A high school diploma or GED is required
  • A bachelor’s or advanced degree is preferred
• A minimum of 3 years of material planning or purchasing experience
• Working knowledge of SAP, Microsoft Excel, Word, and Outlook, and/or the ability to learn new systems
• Ability to multitask in high-pressure situations and maintain a positive and caring attitude
• Strong organizational and time-management skills
• Working knowledge of Blue Yonder is preferred

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a Team Member to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• The normal work environment is in manufacturing and office settings.
• Ability to move around a manufacturing environment
• Ability to sit for extended periods at a desk or workstation, as well as occasional standing or walking within the Manufacturing facility

Note:

The level of physical effort may vary from site to site and in some cases may be greater or…