Raw Material Planner

*Position Requires Three Days Per Week In Office*

Our Material Planning teamis responsible for the day-to-day planning activities focused on raw material planning, buying, and all activities/strategy across Keurig Dr Pepper’s (KDP) Hot Supply Chain network.

As a Material Planner you will work with Manufacturing, Procurement, Finished Good Planning, Logistics partners to ensure the successful on-time delivery of raw materials to each plant in the hot supply chain network (Right Material, Right Place, Right Time). The key role and responsibility of this position is the execution of daily raw material planning and oversight of buying activities with the objective to ensure raw material availability to support daily production and overall customer service. This role will ensure proper communication of material requirements across both internal and external customers and coordinate between internal functions to ensure material availability through the integrated supply chain. This position will also work on assigned Supply Chain initiatives to support the business.

At Keurig Dr Pepper (KDP) the consumer is at the heart of everything we do. Join the team at KDP and make a difference to consumers with one of America’s leading producers and distributors of hot and cold beverages helping to satisfy every consumer’s beverage need, anytime and anywhere.

Position Responsibilities

• Continuously review the finished good forecast, analyzes production plans and inventory reports, availability / requirements for assigned materials
• Generate a stocking strategy to our distribution partners to support warehouse capacity and resource planning
• Assist in the expediting raw materials, when necessary, to support customer order fulfillment
• Recommend and implement production and transportation actions when products are in out-of-stock or allocation situations
• Use of the raw material escalation matrix and partnerships with procurement to ensure redressal of issues between cross functional teams and external suppliers
• Execution of strategies to meet and improve supplier reliability and maximize available supply with increased inventory turns
• Maintain close relationship with finished good multisite planning team (interlinkage of raw to finished good to Service)
• Goals centered on service, working capital, strategies to drive supplier reliability (on time, and in full), and Min/Max adherence for plants and suppliers to include root cause and countermeasure management

Characteristics for Success

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Self-starter with excellent communication skills.
• Ability to be flexible and communicate proactively with global partners