Strategic Planner

The Role & Your Impact

As a Strategic Planner, you will combine tactical and strategic planning responsibilities to improve operational performance, optimize resource utilization, and enhance supply chain reliability. You will provide critical planning insights, coordinate across functions and locations, and lead initiatives that strengthen our planning capabilities.

Key responsibilities include:

• Optimize and re-engineer planning and scheduling processes to improve efficiency and business performance.
• Develop and maintain short-term and long-term capacity plans that align manufacturing capabilities with business, customer, and commercial requirements.
• Identify capacity constraints and opportunities to improve utilization across operations.
• Coordinate planning activities across manufacturing sites and global stakeholders to address capacity, quality, material, inventory, shipment, and supply challenges.
• Manage critical inventory and perform analyses to identify and implement inventory reduction opportunities.
• Lead local improvement projects, including initiatives involving global teams, that enhance key performance measures and support organizational objectives.
• Develop and maintain standardized work processes and operating procedures related to planning activities.
• Communicate planning process changes, risks, and issues effectively to stakeholders across the organization.

What You'll Need to Be Successful

• Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Business, Engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum of 5 years of materials planning experience within a manufacturing environment.
• Strong mathematical aptitude, including the ability to convert between English and Metric systems.
• Intermediate proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, Power BI, Excel and SAP.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to effectively engage managers, customers, vendors, and colleagues.
• Ability to collaborate with global teams and stakeholders across multiple functions.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to develop planning tools, capacity models, KPIs, and reporting solutions that support informed decision-making.
• Demonstrated collaboration and stakeholder management skills to drive cross-functional planning discussions and business decisions.
• Proven accountability and the ability to work independently, make sound decisions, and seek solutions with minimal oversight.

Additional Skills & Interests We Value

While not required, the following qualifications would be advantageous:

• Food and beverage manufacturing experience.
• APICS certification.
• Experience supporting large-scale ERP implementations or SAP superuser responsibilities.
• Experience leading continuous improvement, process optimization, or supply chain transformation projects.
• Exposure to global manufacturing networks and cross-regional planning processes.

Ways of Working

Hybrid work environment with a combination of on-site and flexible work arrangements. Typical business hours are approximately 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Travel requirement of less than 20%, primarily domestic with occasional international travel.