Materials planner Jobs in Rochester, NY

fairlife, LLC is a Chicago-based nutrition company that creates great-tasting, nutrition-rich and dairy products to nourish consumers.

With over $3B in annual retail sales, fairlife's portfolio of delicious, lactose-free, real dairy products includes : fairlife® ultra-filtered milk ; Core Power® High Protein Shakes, a sports nutrition drink to support post-workout recovery; fairlife® nutrition plan™ , a nutrition shake to support the journey to better health.

A wholly owned subsidiary of The Coca-Cola company, fairlife, LLC has been recognized by both Fast Company and Nielsen for its industry leading innovation.

To learn more about fairlife and its complete line of products, please visit fairlife.com.

The construction of fairlife's manufacturing facility in Webster, NY is underway. This state-of-the-art, 750k sq ft, greenfield plant is expected to be operational in late 2025 and will lay the foundation for fairlife's next phase of growth as the leading dairy nutrition provider. While coupling the industry's latest technologies and fairlife's operational excellence to build this world-class facility, fairlife plans to hire 250 new employees and bring in approximately 5 million lbs. of milk a day, with room to grow over the coming years.

job purpose :

The material planner's role is to manage all material, ingredient and packaging inventories and ensure that material resources are available according to site production schedules. The material planner's responsibilities will include purchasing and ensuring on-time delivery of materials, managing optimal inventory levels and inventory health, coordinating with internal departments, and managing external vendor and other stakeholder relations. A successful Material Planner should be able to ensure the appropriate supply of materials required to maintain steady production and finished product delivery.

responsibilities :

• Ensuring the consistent and adequate supply of materials necessary for FG production.
• Ability to react and solve inventory issues, schedule changes, and cancellations.
• Analyze supply / demand changes and react accordingly
• Continuous monitoring and management of material and packaging stocks to ensure a balanced, healthy inventory level, appropriate safety stock and efficient storage utilization.
• Ownership of site MRP, and creation / development of tools
• Proactive management and cross functional communication of material concerns that may impact production schedule
• Daily collaboration with warehouse, 3PL, planning and other internal teams to ensure issues are addressed and production is not affected
• Work with internal teams to ensure that material purchases are timely and cost-efficient
• Collaborate with internal teams to execute material run out plans when changes are made to finished good bill of materials or artwork
• Monitor and ensure timely execution of new product introduction and product revisions
• Develop and maintain vendor relationships to create effective two-way communication to mitigate unknown supply risks
• Daily, Weekly, Monthly Reporting on Materials managed

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working conditions and physical requirements :

food safety requirements :

position location : Webster, NY

reports to : Supply Planning Manager

travel requirements : Less than 5%

exempt / nonexempt : Exempt

Base pay range : 75,000-$85,000 USD

fairlife, LLC is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. All qualified applicants and employees will be given equal opportunity. Selection decisions are based on job-related factors.

In addition to its nondiscrimination commitment, the Company will also provide reasonable accommodation of qualified individuals with known disabilities unless doing so would impose an undue hardship on the Company. If you have a disability and would like to request accommodation in order to apply for a position with us, please email [email protected].