Material Planner

Campari Group today is a major player in the global branded spirits industry, with a portfolio of over 50 premium and super premium brands, marketed and distributed in over 190 markets around the world, with leading positions in Europe and the Americas.

Headquartered in Milan, Italy, Campari Group owns 25 plants worldwide and has its own distribution network in 26 countries, and employs approximately 4,700 people.

Shares of the parent company Davide Campari - Milano N.V. are listed on the Italian Stock Exchange since 2001. Campari Group is today the sixth-largest player worldwide in the premium spirits industry.

Company:  Campari Mexico

Job Title:  Material Planner

Job Location:  Mexico

Reports to:  America Material Planning Director (NAMPD), and Sr. Supply Chain Director, Mexico (functional)

Organizational Layer (global, regional or local): Local

General Description of the Role

The Material Planner is responsible for executing, controlling, and monitoring Direct Material supply planning and inventory management activities with the objectives of maintain stable and accurate inventory levels, high service levels for the Arandas & Co-Manufacturing plants under its scope. The Planner maintains the balance between supply of raw and packaging materials and consumption at the plant level, increasing inventory visibility and efficiency while optimizing inventory investment.

Mission/Objectives

The Planner is the owner of all activities related to meeting the Material plan for the full scope of the Campari’s activities in Arandas and Co-packers.

•         In collaboration with the Supply Planner, Supply Response Planner, the Bottling team and with the guidance of the Materials Planning Director, the Planner ensures the supply of raw materials as well as ingredients in line with forecasts, planned production and inventory policies.

•         The role is responsible for reporting tasks, as well as escalating risk to the plan.

•         The Planner actively seeks root causes of Material supply issues, identifying the problem sources, proposing solutions, implementing the fix and monitoring that the root cause has been resolved, to sustain the positive change.

Key Responsibilities and Activities

Strategy

• Provides an input to the development and implementation of the planning strategy, reporting and analytics best practices, as well as the master data management policies and guidelines.
• In line with inventory management guidelines, supports the NAMPD in analyzing performance data and monitoring performance against set KPI’s and when necessary contributes to the definition of the KPIs.
• Contributes to the deployment of sustainable materials planning actions following inventory management guidelines and planning principles.

Planning/Purchasing activities

• Identify materials availability constraints to production plans and advise the Supply Response team so that adjustments to the Production Plan can be made.
• Execute the MRP process to generate purchase requirements that ensures availability of MRO and raw/packaging material required to meet production plans and schedules.
• Monitor changes to MRP output to identify Purchase Orders (POs) that require expediting or delay and coordinate with the vendors and Procurement for remedial action.
• Provide purchasing projections for MROs and raw/packaging material.
• Develop and maintain MRO and raw/packaging material depletion reports as needed.
• Monitor inventory levels and adjust purchase requirements to ensure levels meet targets.
• Generates planning reports relating to MRO and raw/packaging materials as required.
• Assists the NAMPD with the identification of slow moving and obsolete packaging and raw material stock
• Ensure that requisitions are approved as per the Release Strategy Guidelines.
• Prepare Purchase Orders with all required information.
• Follow-up with suppliers to ensure that goods are delivered in accordance with the stipulated lead times and identify any and all risk to the NAMPD & Supply Response Team.
• Oversees all activities carried out by the Junior Material Planner
• Respond to queries or complaints from internal customers and suppliers.
• Oversees the maintenance of item master data file for all critical parameters as outlined by the company most importantly lead time, minimum order quantity and unit of measure conversions must be maintained.
• Responsible for the optimal implementation of processes and systems as well as the continuous improvement in relation to the management of materials at the local level (with the support of the regional and global team)
• Collaborates with Procurement to drive supplier performance improvement, including quality and timely delivery in accordance with MPS.
• Prepare monthly supplier service delivery reports as required.
• Ensure that the monthly accrual process is carried out by the stipulated deadline.
• Follow up with suppliers for credit relating to short supply or defective materials.
• Resolve discrepancies with suppliers related to quantities supplied. Discrepancies with prices are to be referred to the Procurement Team.
• Oversees all activities carried out by the Junior Material Planner
• Perform other related duties from time to time.

Authority

Work is performed independently with only general direction. The Planner is empowered to make decisions that affect the inflow and material levels at the plants, in accordance with policy. NAMPD will review KPI and quality of work and assist as needed, while the positions will function as key Material Planning representative.

Key Relationships

Internal:

• America’s Material Planning Director
• Innovation Projects Manager
• Production Teams
• Technical & Quality Teams
• Packaging Team
• Procurement Team

External: 

• Global MDM
• NA Regional Supply Planners
• NA Regional Master Data Coordinator
• Local and foreign suppliers
• Shipping Companies
• Airlines & Courier Services
• Freight forwarders & consolidators
• Government Agencies
• Customs Brokers
• Insurance Companies

Experience Required

• 5 or more years’ experience in a manufacturing company, Material Planning, Production Planning and Scheduling or Purchasing roles
• Hands-on usage of the SAP MM and PP modules (or equivalent) with excellent understanding of how masterdata and consumption influence the material plan
• Hands-on experience with materials requirements planning (MRP) highly desirable
• Experience with IBP

Education / Professional Qualifications

Degree in Business Administration, Information Systems or Supply Chain management

Skills

Functional

• Ability to take initiative, make independent decisions and work under under tight deadlines
• Process and systems driven
• Flexibility to work in a high-change environment
• Able to assess processes and ways of working to provide inputs to the development and implementation of Master Data policies and procedures
• High degree of integrity and orientation to details – raising and pursuing issues through to resolution
• Excellent attention to detail with strong analytical and organizational skills

Technical                                                                            

• Proficient in Microsoft Office with basic spreadsheet skills (look up and reference functions)

Managerial

• Ability to manage a cross-functional workflow on multiple projects simultaneously
• Ability to work within a matrix environment and communicate well with a variety of individuals on different functional teams
• Innovative Problem Solving

The ability to find, implement and disseminate  innovative solutions.

• Team working

The ability to work with others across all boundaries to reach common objectives and extraordinary results.

• Consumer Focus

The ability to put himself/herself in the “consumer* / clients*’ shoes”, understanding their current needs and anticipating the future ones.

Other

• Excellent communication skills required, both verbal and written
• Some travel may be required to support company initiatives
• Fluent in English

Our commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:

At Campari Group we believe in building more value together, thus we see diversity in all forms as a source of enrichment. Our employment policies and practices ensure that we are committed to providing equal employment opportunities in all aspects of employment without regard to any individual’s race, religion, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or characteristics or expression, political affiliation or activity, age, veteran status, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Campari Group believes that fair compensation and equal opportunities are crucial for employees’ well-being, empowerment, and engagement.  Our efforts to ensure fair pay have earned us the Fair Pay Certification by Fair Pay Workplace, an independent organization dedicated to dismantling pay disparities based on gender, race and their intersection.

Note to applicants:

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