Plant Planner
Job Location:
Saint Louis, MI - USA
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Job Summary
Job Summary
IFF is a global leader in flavors fragrances food ingredients and health & biosciences. We deliver sustainable innovations that elevate everyday products.
Global Operations ensures excellence in executionfrom procurement to supply chain and reliabilitydelivering quality safety efficiency and sustainability across the value chain.
The role is based in St. Louis MO (hybrid or onsite). Be part of an accurate communicative solutionoriented and detailfocused team where together we can achieve greatness and make a real impact.
Your potential is our inspiration.
Where Youll Make a Difference
- Create and maintain daily and weekly detailed production schedules using SAP Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling (PP/DS) across the planning horizon
- Manage production schedules in alignment with business strategy balancing cost capacity inventory production rates and asset uptime
- Serve as the primary interface between manufacturing supply chain planning and customer service to ensure schedule alignment and customer delivery
- Monitor maintain and close process orders accurately to support system integrity and reliable planning data
- Identify communicate and actively support the resolution of inventory customer order quality and capacity issues as they arise
- Maintain and update SAP master data to support scheduling accuracy and availabletopromise (ATP) processes
- Track analyze and report key performance indicators including productiontoplan capacity loading inventory levels delivery performance and slowmoving or obsolete inventory
- Coordinate finished goods logistics including delivery scheduling production documentation and execution of physical inventory audits with SAP reconciliation
What Makes You the Right Fit
- Bachelors degree in Engineering Supply Chain Business Administration or a related field
- 3 years of experience in production planning operations or supply chain roles within a manufacturing environment
- Solid understanding of supply planning principles and inventory management concepts
- Handson experience using SAP in a planning or manufacturing environment
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office particularly Excel
- Effective written and verbal communication skills in a business environment
- Strong analytical and quantitative problemsolving skills
- Ability to work crossfunctionally in a dynamic operationsdriven setting
How Would You Stand Out
- Experience in process manufacturing food chemical or ingredients industries
- Exposure to toll or contract manufacturing networks
- Demonstrated a continuous improvement mindset with a datadriven approach
Why Choose Us
- Opportunity to make a direct impact on plant operations and customer delivery
- Collaborative teambased manufacturing environment
- Exposure to the global supply chain and planning networks
- Commitment to safety quality and operational excellence
- Strong culture of learning development and continuous improvement
- Work with purposehelping create products people experience every day
We are a global leader in taste scent and nutrition offering our customers a broader range of natural solutions and accelerating our growth strategy. At IFF we believe that your uniqueness unleashes our potential. We value the diverse mosaic of the ethnicity national origin race age sex or veteran status. We strive for an inclusive workplace that allows each of our colleagues to bring their authentic self to work regardless of their religion gender identity & expression sexual orientation or disability.
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