About the role
About this Position We are looking for a Material Planner – Packaging to ensure the timely and efficient supply of packaging materials supporting our manufacturing operations across North America.
In this role, you will play a key part in our Supply Chain organization, ensuring material availability, optimizing inventory levels, anticipating supply risks, and supporting operational continuity.
What you´ll do
- Supports the generation of co-packing demand plans, considering co-packers' capacity limitations
- Assists co-packers in planning production and assembly effectively
- Ensures adherence to regional co-packing guidelines and processes
- Maintains relationships with contracted co-packers, supported by the Regional Co-packing Coordinator when needed
- Helps monitor co-packers' performance, driving improvements in capacity, sustainability, cost, safety, and efficiency
- Participates in setting up and hosting performance meetings with co-packers alongside Procurement/Logistics
- Supports procurement in the sourcing and contracting of co-packers
- Coordinates with Marketing and Sales to align on co-packing needs and catalogue options
- Assists in driving continuous improvement initiatives and provides support to co-packers