Operations Master Scheduler | Bentley Labs

About THG

We are THG a global ecommerce group on a mission to be the global online leader in beauty and sports nutrition.

Our portfolio of leading retailers and brands such as LOOKFANTASTIC Myprotein ESPA Perricone MD and Cult Beauty form our two core businesses: THG Beauty and THG Nutrition.

With us youll go further faster. What are you waiting for

Location: 111 Fieldcrest Ave Edison NJ 08837

Life at THG Beauty

We know that beauty isnt one-size-fits-all. Our portfolio of leading retailers and iconic beauty brands caters to everyone everywhere empowering customers all over the world to look and feel fantastic.

By combining our portfolio of owned brands with a marketplace for over 1300 third-party beauty brands through online retail sites LOOKFANTASTIC Cult Beauty and Dermstore THG Beautys ambition is to be the global digital partner of choice across the beauty industry supporting the channel shift to online.

THG Beautys breadth of relationships is unique to the beauty market; it engages with brands as a retailer a brand owner and a product developer and manufacturer making it the industrys digital strategic leader.

About Bentley Labs

Bentley Laboratories is a premier beauty contract manufacturer based in Edison NJ. For over twenty years Bentley has been a trusted supplier for the worlds top global beauty brands creating and producing award-winning innovations across the skincare bodycare haircare hygiene and color cosmetics categories. Bentleys core manufacturing capabilities include OTCS; skincare emulsions; surfactant systems for haircare bath & body products; hot fill processing for solid stick deodorants lip balms and other wax systems; and powders for dry shampoos and loose powder face applications. Known for its innovation capabilities quality and manufacturing excellence Bentley maintains the highest standards in GMP compliance safety and operational efficiency.

Why be an Operations Master Scheduler at Bentley Labs

The Master Scheduler is responsible for developing maintaining and communicating the organizations long-term production schedule to ensure customer demand manufacturing capacity material availability labor requirements and operational constraints are effectively balanced.

This position serves as the bridge between Sales Customer Service Planning Purchasing Warehouse Compounding Production Quality and Operations translating customer demand and business priorities into an achievable forward-looking manufacturing plan.

The Master Scheduler focuses primarily on the medium- and long-term planning horizon identifying capacity constraints scheduling conflicts material risks and resource requirements before they impact execution.

As an Operations Master Scheduler you will:

• Develop and maintain the Master Production Schedule (MPS) based on demand orders forecasts inventory needs and business priorities.
• Maintain a rolling 812 week production outlook with longer-range visibility where practical.
• Translate customer demand into achievable production plans based on manufacturing capacity.
• Assess capacity across production equipment labor warehouse space quality requirements and material availability.
• Identify and proactively address capacity constraints bottlenecks scheduling conflicts and resource gaps.
• Perform capacity-versus-demand analysis and escalate projected shortages or overloads to Operations leadership.
• Establish and communicate production priorities aligned with customer requirements material availability operational efficiency and business objectives.
• Coordinate with Purchasing Planning and Quality to ensure material availability and account for testing release timelines validations investigations and other quality constraints.
• Partner with Operations and Production leadership to optimize manufacturing campaigns reduce changeovers and maximize equipment and labor utilization.
• Assess the impact of new orders expedited requests forecast changes material delays equipment downtime and other disruptions on the master schedule.
• Provide realistic production date commitments and maintain visibility of planned versus actual production performance.
• Lead regular scheduling and capacity review meetings communicating significant schedule changes and downstream impacts to stakeholders.
• Ensure schedule accuracy and the integrity of planning data used for decision-making.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives focused on scheduling capacity utilization lead-time reduction inventory management and manufacturing efficiency.
• Develop maintain and report scheduling KPIs for Operations leadership.

Planning Horizons

The Master Scheduler is expected to manage production through defined planning horizons:

Long Range 8 Weeks
Capacity planning major customer demand forecasts material requirements resource constraints and anticipated manufacturing load.

Mid Range 38 Weeks
Production sequencing campaign planning material readiness equipment requirements and identification/resolution of capacity conflicts.

Near Term 12 Weeks
Transition of the approved master schedule to the short-term scheduling/production team for detailed execution.

The Master Scheduler should generally not manage hourly production activity or routine daily line adjustmentsunless those changes materially affect the master production plan.

What skills and experience do I need for this role

• 35 years of experience in production planning scheduling supply chain manufacturing operations or a related field.
• Experience in cosmetic pharmaceutical OTC personal-care food chemical or other regulated manufacturing environments is desirable not essential.
• Experience developing or managing master production schedules in a manufacturing environment.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing capacity planning and production workflows.
• Experience working with ERP/MRP systems.
• Advanced Excel and data-analysis skills.
• Ability to analyze large amounts of operational data and convert it into actionable production plans.
• Strong organizational and prioritization skills.
• Excellent cross-functional communication skills.
• Ability to identify conflicts and risks well in advance and drive resolution across departments.

Compensation

• $115000$125000 annually based on experience skills and qualifications.

THG is proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer. If you are invited to interview please let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments we can make to the recruitment process that will enable you to perform to the best of your ability.

THG is committed to creating a diverse & inclusive environment and hence welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

Because of the high volumes of applications our opportunities attract it sometimes takes us time to review and consider them all. We endeavour to respond to every application we receive within 14 days. If you havent heard from us within that time frame or should you have any specific questions about this or other applications for positions at THG please contact one of our Talent team to discuss further.