3rd Party Supply Planner

Cargill is a family company committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. We sit at the heart of the supply chain, partnering with producers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living. By providing customers with life’s essentials, we enable businesses to grow, communities to prosper, and consumers to live well.

This position is in our Food Enterprise where we are committed to serving food manufacturers, food service customers, and retailers with a complete range of innovative ingredients and branded products. Our portfolio includes poultry, beef, egg, alternative protein, salt, oils, starches, sweeteners, cocoa and chocolate.

Job Purpose And Impact

The 3rd Party Supply Planner will help coordinate long term supply chain strategies across networks to address capacity issues and production location decisions in support of business goals. In this role, you will monitor key integrated business planning performance indicators, cost to serve performance data and help coordinate cross functional work teams to meet high customer service standards.

Key Accountabilities

• Maintain data relevant to network distribution planning activities including capacity, constraint, logistics, supplier, master and location data.
• Participate in generating and executing cycle and safety stock plans for the assigned product or location, using the approved supply plan inputs.
• Help develop gap coverage plans during inventory shortages.
• Help create requirements plan and long term supply plan for assigned products and locations as input for the integrated business planning cycle.
• Handle basic issues and problems under direct supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Other duties as assigned.
  
  

Qualifications

MINIMUM

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
  
  

Preferred

• One year of experience in supply and inventory planning
• SAP experience
• Experience working with 3rd Parties or external manufacturing
  
  

APPLICANT INFORMATION

• This position is posted both internally and externally
• Position can be based in Saint Clair - Michigan, Wayzata - Minnesota, Wichita - Kansas, or Milwaukee - Wisconsin
• Relocation assistance is NOT provided for this role
• The business will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position
• This position is posted both internally and externally
• Position can be based in Saint Clair - Michigan, Wayzata - Minnesota, Wichita - Kansas, or Milwaukee - Wisconsin
• Relocation assistance is NOT provided for this role
• The business will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position
  
  

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet