Material Planner

Account Planner

Shift: Days (Monday- Friday)

Hybrid - must be in office 3 days a week after training period is complet

NOW WITH HIGHER PAY!!!!! JOIN A GREAT TEAM, GREAT PEOPLE & A STABLE COMPANY that are growing by leaps and bounds. We are seeking passionate, professional and self-motivated individuals that are ready to transition into our rewarding, challenging and growing team and now is a great time to join Carolina Beverage Group!

 About Our Company 

Carolina Beverage Group is a world-class specialty beverage co-packer for leading beverage brands. Headquarters in Mooresville, NC with additional locations in Cold Spring, MN and Fort Worth, TX. We are incredibly proud of the strong team we have built with over 1,000 hard-working team members. Our ownership investments continue to bring new equipment & expansive operations to all locations, providing ample opportunities across all locations in a variety of roles and departments including Production, Blending, Ingredients, Quality, Maintenance and Warehousing.

Summary:

The Account Planner is responsible for executing material planning activities that support the production schedule, ensuring materials and ingredients are available to meet customer and manufacturing requirements. This role focuses on using data and reports to execute inventory coordination, delivery schedule management, and ongoing communication with internal teams, customers, and suppliers to address changes and risks as they arise. This position operates in a fast-paced manufacturing environment with frequent schedule adjustments and requires close coordination across multiple systems and stakeholders.

Role Purpose:

The Account Planner is responsible for executing material planning to achieve customer fill rates, along with supporting the CBG production schedule, ensuring materials and ingredients are available to meet customer and manufacturing requirements. This role focuses on analyzing and interpreting system data, inventory coordination, delivery schedule management, and ongoing communication with internal and customer teams, and suppliers to address changes and risks as they arise.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Other duties may be assigned

Material Planning & Execution

• Run, maintain, and analyze system data and reports to determine material requirements aligned with production timelines.
• Coordinate material and ingredient availability based on production schedules.
• Manage inventory levels and address slow-moving and obsolete materials with customers.
• Adjust delivery schedules in response to production changes, customer requests, or supply constraints.

Systems, Data & Reporting

• Execute and maintain data accuracy across planning systems and customer portals 
• Run and analyze reports to identify risks and constraints.
• Maintain Look Ahead and other working documents to monitor material readiness.
• Track KPIs related to material availability and inventory health.
• Adjust schedules and resources as needed to meet changing 

 Coordination & Communication

• Serve as a primary point of contact for material-related coordination.
• Communicate risks and mitigation plans to stakeholders.
• Participate in customer, production, and planning meetings.

Operational Support & On-Call

• Respond to material-related issues impacting production.
• Participate in a defined on-call rotation, including evenings or weekends as required to support production.

Work Schedule & Availability

• Standard business hours with additional hours as required.
• On-call rotation is required with responsiveness to urgent issues.
• Workload reviewed periodically based on staffing and demand.

Measures of Success

• Consistent material availability aligned with production schedules.
• Reduced production disruptions.
• Accurate execution of MRP/ATP planning.
• Effective stakeholder communication.
• Drive on-time delivery of materials with customers and suppliers to align with production timeline. 
• Align material inventory levels to meet warehouse capacity and production schedule.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, operations, or related field.
• 3 years of material planning or manufacturing planning experience.
• ERP/MRP experience (SAP preferred). 
• Strong analytical, communication, and Excel skills.

Work Environment: 

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to work in wet, humid, or outdoor conditions. The employee is also exposed to varying temperatures extremes including heat and cold as the weather varies. The employee is occasionally exposed to work on elevated platforms, with fumes or airborne particles, or with toxic or caustic chemicals. This employee is frequently exposed to work near moving mechanical parts and exposed to vibration. 

The noise level in the work environment is usually loud. 

Physical Demands: 

The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds and frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include Distance vision, Color Vision, Peripheral vision, and Depth perception.  While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is frequently required to sit, talk or hear, use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, and crawl.

WHAT WE OFFER:

 In addition to competitive pay, stable employment and growth opportunities, we offer a variety of benefits as part of our total compensation & rewards package.

• Many of our positions work on average 15 days/month, based on 2-2-3 schedule; however, we have a variety of work schedules dependent on position and/or department
• Night Shift Differential (additional $1.00)
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Paid Holidays
• Health
• HSA
• Dental
• Vision
• Life and AD&D- company paid & supplemental
• Short Term Disability
• Long Term Disability
• Company Life Insurance
• Free Uniforms
• Monthly Bonus Incentive Program
• Employee Referral Bonuses
• Employee Appreciation Events
• Company Swag – Apparel, hats & a variety of other items available
• Discount Purchases on Beer from our MN Brewhouse Brand
• Eligible for benefits the first month following 60 days of employment including medical, a health savings account option, dental, vision, disability, company paid & voluntary life and more
• 401k match after 6 months with 100% immediate vesting

* Pre - Employment Drug Screening and Background check are part of our hiring process* 

We look forward to hearing from you and reviewing your information.