Associate Director, Supply Planning

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As the world leader in dairy, Lactalis is a family-owned company with over 85,000 pragmatic and ambitious professionals across the globe. Each day, we're proud to produce award-winning dairy products that bring people together.

In the US, we proudly offer an unrivaled house of beloved brands, including Galbani Italian cheeses and ricotta, President specialty cheeses and butters, Kraft natural and grated cheeses, Breakstone's cottage cheese, Cracker Barrel, Black Diamond cheddar, and Parmalat milk. Our yogurt portfolio includes siggi's, Stonyfield Organic, Brown Cow, Oui, Yoplait, Go-Gurt, :ratio, Green Mountain Creamery, and Mountain High, along with a growing family of ethnic favorites like Karoun, Gopi, and Arz.

At Lactalis, we live by our core values-Ambition, Engagement, and Simplicity. We foster a workplace where innovation thrives, diverse perspectives are celebrated, and everyone's unique background and ideas are valued.

Even if you don't meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply. We want to hear about your PASSION, your STORY, and how your EXPERTISE can help us shape the future of dairy.

From your PASSION to ours

Lactalis U.S. Yogurt, part of the Lactalis family of companies, is currently hiring an Associate Director, Supply Planning based in Londonderry, NH. This is a hybrid role requiring three days on-site each week.

The Associate Director, Supply Planning will manage production, material, and both the short & long term capacity planning functions in order to support company initiatives, budget & Capital development, and support customer requirements. Responsibilities to include leading and directing all of the activities involved in the planning and deployment of all finished goods and raw materials from production operations, co-packers and shipping to warehouse and retail customers in the most effective expeditious cost-effective manner. Accountable for providing key inputs to long term strategy for production and storage capacity for annual budgeting and CAPEX. All of these activities are to be managed in accordance with the company's goals of safety, quality, regulatory preparedness, financial performance, environmental mission, inventory controls and customer service. This is a highly interactive position with peers in many other disciplines of the business as well as the CEO and Executive Leadership team. The ability to prioritize, be decisive and demonstrate good judgment is imperative in this role.

From your EXPERTISE to ours

Key responsibilities for this position include:

• Responsible for all aspects of food safety and quality, as applicable and defined in plant and department procedures.
• Serve as member of the Lactalis U.S. Yogurt Chain Leadership team. Provide insight and identify improvement opportunities across the entire supply chain to improve cost and service.
• Provide overall leadership for Supply planning team, including inventory planning, capacity planning, master production scheduling, and materials management.
• Develop and present priority and capacity plans as part of S&OP process. Partner with cross functional stakeholders such as Sourcing, Industrial, Warehousing, and Demand Planning to identify and mitigate risks to overall business plan. Identify improvement opportunities and develop corrective actions to close identified gaps.
• Create master production schedules for factory and co-manufacturing. Confirm service level agreements are being delivered.
• Define appropriate inventory policies for raw materials and finished goods to ensure no disruption to operations.
• Deliver targeted customer service levels.
• Manage inventory positions, minimizing exposure to waste.
• Manage team of material planners and supply planners with full responsibility for the hiring, training, development, evaluation, discipline and general supervision of staff.
• Provide supply outlook to finance based on S&OP and key supply inputs from industrial and collaborate with DP to deliver constrained demand plan.
• Develop budget scenarios and assist and advise in constraining budget to reflect a constrained capacity outlook.
• Drive initiatives for enhancements to Futurmaster to support business needs. Explore other technological alternatives and solutions.
• Lead long term planning capacity reviews and provide solutions/alternatives/scenarios to maximize asset utilization and growth.
• Lead and develop multi-sourcing production planning strategy and process (i.e. Pouches and siggi's) to fully utilize network capacity.
• Collaborate with Project Managers to advise on project impact to utilization, service and overall supply chain impact.
• Provide service outlook though S&OP to align business on utilization and service projections.
• Improve interplant truck utilization and identify opportunities to improve process and utilization.
• Develop and maintain contract manufacturing scorecards and review regularly with contract manufacturers to drive improvements and align service expectations and best practices.
• Make recommendations to move sourcing and drive cost savings and/or production efficiencies for factories.
• Review service weekly with sales team.
• Define requirements in terms of milk needs for contract manufacturers, organic in Casa Grande and specialty milk (i.e. Grassfed). Partner with milk team to develop process to manage milk requirements with multiple suppliers.
• Build deployment planning team and establish processes and best practices to manage multi-Distribution Center sourcing strategy.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

From your STORY to ours

Qualified applicants will contribute the following:

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Engineering, or similar field required. Advanced Degree preferred.
• CPIM or CSCP preferred.
• 10+ years of experience in Supply Chain Planning/ Forecasting. Additional cross functional experience in Demand Planning, Manufacturing, network modeling, or other supply chain disciplines is preferred.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to communicate to all levels of the organization, including the ability to present business information in a group setting.
• Excellent influence and facilitation skills.
• Demonstrated ability to interface and maintain effective relationships with all departments and employees in a team-oriented organization.
• Demonstrated ability to provide vision and leadership.
• Demonstrated experience building strong teams and developing people.
• Ability to prioritize and meet deadlines within specified time constraints.
• Ability to adapt in a changing work environment.

At Lactalis, we offer a comprehensive Total Rewards Program with a variety of affordable benefits and coverage options. We support insurance costs significantly, contribute generously to retirement plans, and offer Paid Time Off from day one. We are committed to your professional growth, providing training and development opportunities, including Education Reimbursement. Join us and grow your career.

Lactalis is an equal employment opportunity employer. We will not discriminate against applicants with regard to any legally-recognized basis including, but not limited to: veteran status, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, and physical or mental disabilities.