Supply Chain Planner

TITLE: Supply Chain Planner

REPORTS: Director of Supply Chain

LOCATION: Bloomfield, New Jersey

EXPERIENCE: Minimum 4 year degree and 5+ years planning or comparable experience.

CLASSIFICATION: Full time, Exempt

POSTING DATE: March 18, 2025

Company Overview:

World Finer Foods, located in Bloomfield, New Jersey, is a full-service sales, marketing and distribution company for food, health and personal care products. With more than $200 million in annual sales, World Finer foods sell over 60 brands and over 1,000 products from around the globe.

Position Overview:

This position plays a key role in the planning and purchasing of designated brands and components to satisfy fully our customer needs and build a robust supply chain network. The individual will interact regularly with the suppliers, cross-functional partners including Sales, Marketing, and Supply Chain utilizing historical order and shipment data. The planner will help identify, quantify, and communicate forecast changes, risks and opportunities with the co-packers and support WFF's sales growth and improve process development for any new Third-Party Brand. In addition, the planner will be responsible for the management of our Wal-Mart consolidated warehouse inventories and process.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Plan, order and negotiate the buying of all goods for designated brands and warehouses
• Create Purchase Orders, Work Orders and Internal Requisitions as required.
• High level of collaboration with Marketing and Demand Planning in monthly Brand S&OP
• Manage inventory levels proactively to reduce risk of closeout.
• Manage the shipper and assembly components for all items
• Invoice approval for all vendors of all components
• Manage the inventory of finished goods from co-packers to satisfy all customer needs and to minimize the cost of close-outs.
• Place orders for finished goods to facilitate transfer of inventory to our warehouses.
• Work in conjunction with the production manager to schedule the production runs for all items.
• Work with the Logistics Manager to arrange freight and control total freight costs with different carriers for all destinations.
• Other tasks as assigned by manager.

Qualifications:

• Background in production scheduling, forecasting, procurement, and/or planning.
• Strong analytical abilities, meticulous and extreme accuracy required.
• Strong knowledge of the demand planning process within Consumer Packaged Goods Industry
• Experience using Demantra or other Planning Tool preferred but not required.
• Knowledge of demand management/forecasting tools, forecasting processes in sales, marketing operations, finance, manufacturing, and supply chain issues
• Excellent communication, presentation and Team building skills.
• Extensive spreadsheet analysis and strong mathematical abilities
• 5+ years related experience.
• 4-year college degree (Supply Chain or related field)