Mativ is a global leader in specialty materials headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia. The Company offers a wide range of critical components and engineered solutions to solve our customers’ most complex challenges. With over 7,500 employees worldwide, we manufacture on four continents and generate sales in more than 100 countries. We offer a wide range of premium applications across diversified and growing end markets, from filtration to healthcare to sustainable packaging. Our broad portfolio of technologies combines polymers, fibers, and resins to optimize the performance of our customers’ products across multiple stages of the value chain. Our leading positions are a testament to our best-in-class global manufacturing, supply chain, and materials science capabilities. We drive innovation and enhance performance, finding potential in the impossible.

Our Industrials business segment is growing and looking for a Supply Planner to provide long term planning analysis and direction to manage supply vs. demand across manufacturing locations resulting in high on-time delivery and level loading of manufacturing assets.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Monitors, analyzes and maintains key planning parameters including lead times and safety stocks.
• Profiles inventory including the identification of excess and obsolete inventory and aged WIP and creates action plan to address problem areas.
• Perform root cause analysis and develops appropriate countermeasures for key metric misses including On-time Delivery, Aged WIP, Schedule Conformance and Excess Inventory.
• Supports S&OP process for production lines. This includes long range capacity planning models utilizing sales forecast, production capability and inventory.
• Identifies critical capacity bottlenecks in the short, medium- and long-term planning horizons and recommends solutions to resolve bottlenecks for production lines.
• Supports manufacturing plans to level load key production assets allowing for more efficient manufacturing runs and effective use of labor.
• Determines and manages optimal inventory levels to achieve desired customer service levels in a hybrid Make-to-Order and Make-to-Stock planning environment for production lines.
• Maintains effective oversight and disposition of slow moving and obsolete inventory.
• Analyzes inventory and supply issues for root causes and takes corrective actions to resolve.
• Ensures accurate planning data in ERP system to drive effective use of systems tools for planning.

Education/Certifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Operations Planning or similar degree with 3-5 years’ experience in supply chain planning, inventory management, or other related fields
• APICS Certification preferred

Required Skills:

• Strong technical knowledge of business management systems, standards and techniques.
• Strong working knowledge of MRP systems
• Strong interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work cross functionally and across regions to influence others to achieve business
• Ability to work on multiple priorities, meet deadlines, and set priorities while maintaining flexibility in a fast-paced environment
• Established skills with Microsoft Office, especially Microsoft Excel (including pivot tables, advanced formulas), ERP, other planning tools