Planner, Buyer

We are hiring a Planner, Buyer to join our Strategic Sourcing team!

DISCOVER

Are you energized by the challenge of ensuring the right materials are at the right place at the right time? As a Planner, Buyer, you will manage assigned commodities, maintain supplier schedules, and support production plans with precision. You’ll work cross‑functionally with Sourcing, Quality, Production, Demand Management, and global suppliers to maintain continuity of supply and drive continuous improvement.

This role sits at the center of a fast‑moving supply chain and is ideal for someone who enjoys analysis, planning discipline, supplier partnership, and making a measurable operational impact.

YOUR RIPPLE EFFECT

• Can you keep production flowing? Create and manage detailed purchase and replenishment schedules using analytical tools to meet build plans across multiple product lines. Communicate shortages early, identify root causes, and lead risk‑mitigation actions that protect the schedule.
• Do you excel at inventory stewardship? Monitor and manage $40M–$60M in inventory value to meet corporate targets. Identify excess and obsolete material, drive MRB disposition with Quality, and maintain healthy replenishment parameters.
• Are you effective in supplier partnership? Issue and manage global purchase orders, maintain planning horizons and forecasts, support import/export documentation, and collaborate with suppliers to improve lead times, service levels, and cost performance.
• Do you enjoy improving processes and reducing cost? Identify cost‑saving opportunities through commodity analysis, RFQs, logistics optimization, and continuous improvement.
• Are you detail‑oriented with data and systems? Maintain ERP planning parameters and Item Master data. Review invoice exceptions, support engineering changes, and ensure data accuracy across assigned parts.
• Are you skilled at cross‑functional coordination? Partner with Production, Demand Management, Quality, Accounting, and Sourcing to ensure aligned decisions that support operational needs and customer commitments.
  
  

What You Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Operations, or equivalent experience
• 1–2 years of purchasing or planning experience in a high‑volume manufacturing environment
• Ability to manage complex commodities, including negotiation, cost, and inventory management
• Strong analytical, organizational, and time‑management skills
• MS Office proficiency with an emphasis on Excel; ERP experience required
• Familiarity with procurement techniques such as VMI, consignment, Kanban, or Min/Max
• Ability to read engineering drawings, technical documents, and supplier specifications
• APICS CPIM or CPM certification preferred
• Bilingual English/Spanish or English/Mandarin a plus
  
  

What You’ll Get

At Watkins Wellness, we believe everyone should ‘Feel good. Live well.’ We offer employees the opportunity to join a dynamic, growing industry leader with an outstanding and well-deserved reputation for leadership and commitment to our employees, customers, and community. Our employees are eligible to receive exceptional health and wellness benefits, paid time off, company bonus, profit sharing, 401k match, education assistance, and much more. We are proud of the people we are and the products we make — products that make a difference to the health and well-being of others.

We look for candidates that exhibit The Watkins Way (always Ethical, endeavors to be Transparent, embraces Inclusion, welcomes Diverse backgrounds and perspectives, Accommodating, believes in Work-Life Balance, puts Safety First, Accountable, values Relationships, Passionate, Team Player, and Goal Driven).

Physical Requirements: The employee must frequently lift and move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Hiring Range: $54,500.00 - $85,470.00

Many factors affect actual compensation including but not limited to experience, education, skills, and geographic location

Company: Watkins Wellness

Shift 1 (United States of America)Full time

Watkins (the “Company”) is an equal opportunity employer and we strive to employ the most qualified individuals for every position. The Company makes employment decisions only based on merit. It is the Company’s policy to prohibit discrimination in any employment opportunity (including but not limited to recruitment, employment, promotion, salary increases, benefits, termination and all other terms and conditions of employment) based on race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, pregnancy, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, physical/mental disability, medical condition, marital/domestic partner status, military and veteran status, height, weight or any other such characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. The Company is committed to complying with all applicable laws providing equal employment opportunities. This commitment applies to all people involved in the operations of the Company regardless of where the employee is located and prohibits unlawful discrimination by any employee of the Company.

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