Supply Chain Planning Coordinator

Headquartered in Lakeville, Minn., Post Consumer Brands, a business unit of Post Holdings, Inc., is dedicated to providing people and their pets with delicious food choices for every taste and budget. The company’s portfolio includes beloved brands such as Honey Bunches of Oats®, PEBBLES®, Grape-Nuts® and Malt-O-Meal® cereal, and Peter Pan® peanut butter, as well as Rachael Ray® Nutrish®, Kibbles ‘n Bits® and 9Lives® dog and cat food. As a company committed to high standards of quality and to our values, we are driven by one idea: To make lives better by making delicious food accessible for all. For more information about our brands, visit www.postconsumerbrands.com and follow us on LinkedIn for the latest news.

Post Consumer Brands recently acquired several iconic pet food brands, venturing into a new market while remaining true to our purpose to provide delicious and accessible food that our consumers love. We’re always searching the center store for the next exciting product to add to our portfolio, and right now, we’re growing and need passionate, driven individuals with diverse perspectives to help us reach greater heights. That’s where you come in. Join a team where your voice is not only heard but valued. Make a real impact on brands enjoyed by millions of people and their pets.

At Post Consumer Brands, we take pride in our longstanding legacy of making one of every five breakfast cereals families eat daily. Today, we’re just as focused on our future as we expand our grocery business with different shelf-stable foods, including snacks and peanut butter. We are committed to providing accessible and delicious food for families, and we’re always searching the center store for the next exciting product to add to our portfolio. As we soar to new heights, we need creative, determined individuals from all walks of life to join our team, where your unique perspective and ideas are acknowledged and valued. Be a part of a company that empowers you to make a difference that’s evident on grocery store shelves and families’ tables across North America.

Post Consumer Brands corporate headquarters in Lakeville, Minn. is about 20 miles south of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Lakeville has all the benefits of smaller town living with access to everything a large metropolitan area has to offer. Join more than 400 team members collaborating on the two-building campus to help put breakfast on the tables of millions of consumers in North America. 

OVERVIEW:   

Under the direction of the Associate Director, Supply Chain Planning,the Supply Chain PlanningCoordinatoris accountable to monitoring inventory and supply sources to support Post Consumer Brand’s manufacturing and distribution processes tomeet our customers anticipated demand. The coordination of inventory across our Supply Chain network, including finished goods and packaging, helps balance the needed inventory levels necessary to service the customers of the business. This position is also responsible to provide project coordination support for identified projects within the Supply Chain Planning department. Example projects may include coordination of item discontinuations or introductions, promotion tracking, aging inventory, and root cause analysis of Supply Chain disruptions. 

Other key functions the position works with: 

• Customer Solutions – to maintain service level targets and inform on inventory timing 
• Master Supply Planning – to satisfy the production plan needs and inform on necessary timing 
• Transportation - to minimize excess product movement and highlight inventory expediting needs 
• Material Planning  - to assure plan modifications are compatible with Packaging lead times and availability 
• Production Planning – to assure schedules are efficient as possible for both processing and packaging given current demand requirements and service levels 

Working Location: Office/Remote Hybrid.  This role will be officed out of the Lakeville, MN Corporate office

This position is in-office with a flexible schedule that may entail working from home a couple of days out of the week. #LI-hybrid

Responsibilities and Accountabilities: 

• Track and report Key Performance Indicators on significant variances, perform root cause analysis and follow escalation procedures to maintain or improve customer service 

• Communicate inventory timing needs to master supply planning, production planning, material planning, customer solutions and transportation planning 
• Facilitate weekly service meetings with cross functional groups to ensure alignment of actions to address immediate service concerns  
• Partner cross-functionally with customer solutions and trade marketing on promotional tracking inclusive of item availability and inventory allocations 
• Review existing production plans to recommend changes to finished goods items that limit aging inventorywrite-offs 
• Review existing material plans to recommend changes foritem transition projects that ensure production availability and limited inventory write-offs 

• Update project tracker documents and represent Supply Chain Planning in associated project meetings 
• Coordinate activities to pursue opportunities and resolve issues. Document, communicate and follow-up on action plans 
• Provide cross-functional information and expertise within the projects assigned 
• Provide coordination on assigned projects and assist members of the Supply Chain Planning team, including but not limited to monitoring and validating inventory levels, making recommendations for change to align with project needs, issuing communications, project status updates, coordinating meetings, standard work documentation, and KPI tracking. 

Leadership Competencies: customer focus, drive for results; action-oriented; problem solving, planning, timely decision making, informing, organizing, conflict management, interpersonal savvy 

EDUCATION: 

• Associate’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Accounting, administrative training, or related field.  Bachelors Degree preferred.

EXPERIENCE: 

• Would prefer a minimum of 2 years of combined related experience operating in areas of customer service, planning, operations, inventory control, production scheduling, demand management, capacity management, materials management, or distribution resource planning; with preference in food processing/packaging 
• Proficient in the use of office technologies and demonstrated ability to deliver high level, responsive customer service in a business environment is required  
• Able to build relationships