Sr. Supply Planner

Job Description
CJ Foods USA Inc. is the U.S. food operations headquarters for CJ Cheiljedang ("CJ Foods"). Since its opening in 1978, CJ Foods has quickly become a major manufacturer and distributor of Asian food products with a focus on Korean food. Through our brands, Bibigo and Annie Chun's, we are able to offer an extensive range of packaged food products, including dumplings, noodles, and sauces. Backed by a global company with over 60 years of experience in the food industry, CJ Foods' mission is to drive awareness of Asian food, especially Korean food, and provide only the best quality products to U.S. households across the nation.
What we're looking for:
We're looking for someone who can work in our CJ Foods corporate headquarters in La Palma, CA. Ideally, you can formulate and apply mathematical modeling and other optimizing methods to develop and interpret information that assists management with decision making, policy formulation, or other managerial functions. You'd collect and analyze supply and demand data and develop decision support analytics. You'd also develop and supply optimal time, cost, or logistics networks for plant capacity plans and supply evaluation, review, or implementation by plant management.
Responsibilities:

• Facilitating the evaluation of demand requirements against plant capacity limitations.
• Identifying and facilitating solutions among supply chain partners (sales, manufacturing, demand planning, distribution, purchasing).
• Providing mid-term and long-term capacity plans to our manufacturing facility which balances cost and service expectations. The primary outcome of the review process results in Master Schedule creation and release to the assigned Plants.
• Contributes to the broader vision of overall capacity strategy within the Global Supply Chain team.
• Develop a production plan on a regular cycle for a 13 week period and a long-term 52 week plan to meet forecasted demand and create effective plant utilization.
• Analyze customer demand information, forecast, orders, labor, and material availability and develop a flexible yet efficient master schedule.
• Monitor forecast trends and engage demand managers to formulate adjustments when necessary, working to ensure that manufacturing plans are based on a sound demand signal.
• Monitor production attainment results and conduct formal quarterly rate reviews to make recommendations for adjustments to established planning rates.
• Facilitate weekly supply chain coordinator meeting with the demand management teams.
• Facilitate weekly process of resolving low stocks and stock outs and schedule changes.
• Facilitate monthly reviews with business unit planning teams during Corporate Supply Review.
• Facilitate inventory investment and coordinate inventory pre-builds to maximize asset utilization throughout the year.
• Analyze the supply chain network using complex financial assessment of manufacturing and inventory alternatives to present capacity inventory and cost realities for senior management as well as support the Sales and Operations Planning (S OP) process across multiple business units.
• Evaluate manufacturing lot sizes to balance costs of manufacturing with costs of inventory.
• Provide periodic assessments, including, manufacturing capacity for major capital strategy decisions, new product capacity evaluations, production alternatives, and implementation strategies to support new product introduction timing.
• Facilitate efforts to incorporate data and feedback into future plans.
• Stay current with software development, provide on-site technical expertise for the ERP system and write ad-hoc reports as required.
• Actively contribute to the development and support of capacity planning processes, tools and techniques and look at ways to make continuous improvements.

Preferred Qualifications
Education: Bachelor's degree (B. A.) in Economics, Statistics and Applied Mathematics, Supply Chain Management or a closely related field. Or a Master's degree in Economics, Statistics and Applied Mathematics, Supply Chain Management or closely related field or equivalent.
Years of Related Experience: 3+ years
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Intermediate or advanced skill level with Microsoft Excel and intermediate skill level with Microsoft PowerPoint.
• Experience with Advanced Planning Systems/ERP (JDA/SAP).
• Must possess an understanding of supply chain and inventory planning principles.
• Knowledge and experience in manufacturing planning and/or distribution systems.
• Strong analytical skills and basic understanding of financial impact and cost alternatives when assessing inventory and capacity trade-offs.
• Strong mathematical skills.
• Effective interpersonal skills.
• Experience preferred with production planning at a large scale/multi-site manufacturer.
• Reporting and querying ability in database tools such as SAP Business Warehouse and BEX.
• Formal supply chain training seminars or APICS certification also preferred.

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications associated with the job. An individual must be able to perform all the duties and responsibilities listed in a fully competent manner to be considered successful in the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential duties and responsibilities.