Formulation Ingredients Specialist

We’re Bentley Labs, a cutting-edge formulation and manufacturing partner to the World’s Best Beauty Brands! Our product formulation and production capabilities are wide-ranging and distinctive – with innovative, exciting products across skin care, bath and body, hair, and lip categories. Over the past 16 years, the Bentley team has grown to include some of the industry’s brightest stars. Our diverse and talented group are ever and truly a unit—working together toward an all-consuming vision to be the best.

This is a place where we create products that matter, relationships that last, and where ambition is supported and rewarded! We know you work hard and we want you to be successful. What will we do for you? Let’s help you with tuition reimbursement. Don’t know something? Let us send you to classes. Come on in and we’ll show you what else we have to offer you! 

Who you are…you celebrate your success and others too. You focus on the right solution with each customer. Your passion for providing outstanding service contributes to our high level of customer satisfaction. Building relationships is your strong suit. You like to have fun at work too! Loud laughing encouraged.

SUMMARY: The Formulation Ingredients Excellence Specialist is a critical role responsible for the ongoing analysis of Ingredient shelf life, seamless flow of inbound chemicals from receipt, through testing and storage in the ingredient warehouse. In this role, the Formulation Ingredients Excellence Specialist will work closely with the procurement team as well as sales and planning to expedite and troubleshoot critical ingredients that are needed for upcoming orders. In addition, this role will work closely with the Director of Inventory management to identify expired, rejected and slow moving inventory and partner with external vendors to generate revenue from the sale of ingredients to third party buyers. This role will work closely with procurement, QC, R&D, planning and sales departments.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Development of the Human Resources Department

• Collect and organize purchase order and customer information from our MRP system
• Track order movement to understand and control variances to ship/delivery dates and how they compare to need dates for production
• Using analytical skills and supply/demand knowledge, communicate order delays to the customer sales and planning teams as well as work with vendors to expedite existing purchase orders due to customer order changes 
• Work with A/P to identify any discrepancies in PO invoices vs. quoted prices
• Ensure proper workflow maintained of raw material retest and shelf life extension by managing the nomination, sampling, testing, and approval of needed materials.
• Manage the timely flow of inbound raw materials, from receipt, quarantine, sampling, testing, approval and proper storage in a timely fashion.
• Partner with 3^rd party buyers to identify and receive orders for slow moving, expired, and rejected materials.
• Maintain and ensure accurate analysis and reporting.
• Support ingredient and packaging teams by performing routine cycle counts and inventory audits.
• Assist with process improvements related to inventory 
• Other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• BA/BS Degree in Relevant field of study or similar years of experience.
• Demonstrated understanding of E/MRP systems (e.g. Forth Shift/ SAP / NetSuite), supply demand planning and inventory management.
• Work experience as a procurement specialist, production planner, analyst, or other relevant role
• In-depth knowledge of inventory/procurement principles and best practices
• Familiarity with ERP/Warehousing software systems (4^th Shift, CMS, Deacom)
• Excellent computer skills, especially with MS Excel and database entry and computation (e.g. VLOOKUP, Pivot Tables, Data Visualization)
• Analytical skills with a keen sense of organization and detail
• Proven time management skills and ability to work under strict deadlines
• Bilingual Spanish is a plus