What are the responsibilities and job description for the Demand Planner position at A&K Pizza Crust?
Alive & Kickin’ Pizza Crust (A&K Crust) has been a trusted leader in the pizza industry since 1989, specializing in high-quality doughs and crusts for food service, manufacturing, and retail customers nationwide. With decades of experience and a passion for innovation, A&K continues to grow through strategic expansion and product excellence.
Pep’s Pizza Company, a growing subsidiary of A&K Crust, is dedicated to producing our signature frozen pizza brands—Legit, Drafthaus, Maestro, and Luige’s—which are distributed in grocery stores and retail locations across the country. Together, A&K Crust and Pep’s Pizza Company bring exceptional pizza products from our ovens to tables nationwide.
Essential Duties, Responsibilities and Expectations:
- Utilize ERP system to prepare production schedules for assigned production lines that maximize efficiency. while minimizing cost and satisfying customer demand.
- Navigate ERP modules to monitor, investigate and optimize schedules, materials, resource and labor utilization, efficiencies and priorities.
- Work and communicate with customer service, purchasing, operations, logistics and warehouse to best meet/coordinate schedule changes/needs of our customers.
- Record daily performance metrics and support daily, weekly, and monthly reporting.
- Attend daily and weekly production and scheduling meetings.
- Update various ERP modules to accurately reflect all requirements for operations including production calendars and resource groups.
- Manage the finished good inventory to reduce waste.
Work with Sales team to maintain forecasts for assigned customers.
- Work with operations management to address order fulfillment concerns.
- Backup team members to provide coverage as needed by the scheduling team.
- Other tasks assigned.
Requirements:
-Excellent communication skills are essential.
- Advanced knowledge of MS Excel and Power BI is preferred.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Supply Chain, or related field is preferred or 2 years of experience in production planning and logistics.
- Experience with MRP/MPS software.
- Superior organization & time management skills.
- Experience preparing production schedules in a fast paced manufacturing environment.
- Proven time management and task management abilities.
- Strong analytical skills, process oriented and ability to develop action plans.
- Ability to work occasional off-hours as needed.
Working Conditions
- Standard workweek: Monday–Friday, approximately 8–9 hours per day.
- Occasional extended hours or weekends may be required to meet customer demands.
Benefits
- Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance (free dental & vision for full-time employees)
- 401(k) with Company Match
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Opportunities for skill development and career growth within the company
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $55,000.00 - $85,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Work Location: In person
Salary : $55,000 - $85,000