Manager Materials Planning

Overview

At Nestlé Health Science, we believe that nutrition, science, and wellness must merge, not collide. Here, we embrace the intrinsic connections of these three pillars, harnessing their collective strength to empower healthier lives. Our broad product portfolio includes renowned brands like Garden of Life®, Nature's Bounty®, Vital Proteins®, Orgain®, Nuun®, BOOST®, Carnation Breakfast Essentials®, Peptamen®, Compleat Organic Blends®, and more. We also have extensive pharmaceutical expertise, offering innovative medicines that aim to prevent, manage, and treat gastrointestinal and metabolic-related diseases.

At Nestlé Health Science, we bring our best for better lives. Our people are challenged to bring fresh, diverse views and make bold moves to empower healthier lives through nutrition. We know brilliant ideas can come from anyone, anywhere. Here we embrace the entrepreneurial spirit and collaborate with teams that champion focused and forward thinking. We are committed to fostering professional growth and celebrating the achievements of our people along the way.

We offer dynamic career paths, robust development, opportunities to learn from talented colleagues around the globe, and benefits that support physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing.

Join us to innovate for impact and reimagine the future of health and nutrition for patients and consumers.

The Materials Planning Manager will manage, guide and develop all Supply Chain functions within the MRP Planning function in order to meet production and business needs at required performance levels and at optimized costs for our Manufacturing Facilities in Long Island, NY. This is done through the tools and methodology of Nestle Continuous Excellence model focused heavily on building a lean function as part of the total Lean Enterprise.

As the Materials Planning Manager, you will also be responsible for the alignment of the supply plan for materials planning. Working alongside the Procurement team, you will interface with vendors to collaborate on supply plans and inventory requirements and manage the Print Shop Supply Strategy. This is also a People Leader role that manages direct reports. This position will be either a remote or hybrid role based on the selected candidate’s geographic location.

Strong preference will be given to applicants who live within a commutable distance within Long Island, NY or Bridgewater, NJ.

• Serve as the Vitamins, Minerals and Health Supplements (VMHS) Center of Supply functional expert for all MRP related systems and processes.
• Develop and facilitate implementation of strategic roadmap for Materials Scheduling initiatives and projects.
• Act as liaison between factory, Procurement, Technical and Production, Transportation, Technical Applications Group, Supply Planning, etc. to drive cross-functional process improvements.
• Create and maintain training documentation and plans materials scheduling.
• Serve as escalation point for critical MRP-related process and system issues.
• Monitor packaging stock levels and lead stock policy discussions with Factories.
• Monitor health of MRP master data (e.g., safety stock, safety time, GRPT) in factories and work with Materials Schedulers to continuously improve and optimize scheduling/plans.
• Run MRP health checks and work with factory teams to address corrective.
• Own and continuously improve process and tools to mitigate expiring materials risk.
• Monitor Material Requirements Accuracy (MRA) and coordinate with both the Procurement and Planning teams to address major opportunities.
• Coach and develop team members and ensure environment for optimal performance.
• Manages material forecasts resulting from enterprise-wide planning activities including S&OP, demand planning, rough cut capacity planning and supply planning.
• Analyze monthly changes and communicate significant material changes to the plan to internal and external stakeholders.
• Participate in integrated supply planning activities to improve Demand, Supply, and Material forecast accuracy.
• Develop material plans for new product launches and manage obsolescence of materials resulting from SKU…