Category Inventory Planner

Employee Type:

Full time

Location:

IL Oak Brook

Job Type:

Supply Chain Planning

Job Posting Title:

Category Inventory Planner

About Us: 

TreeHouse Foods is a leading manufacturer of private label packaged foods and beverages, operating a network of over 20 production facilities and several corporate offices across the United States and Canada. At TreeHouse Foods, our commitment to excellence extends beyond our products and revolves around our people. We are investing in talent and creating a performance-based culture where employees can do their best work and develop their careers, directly impacting our mission to make high quality, affordable food for our customers, communities, and families. We hope you will consider joining the team and being part of our future.

Named one of America’s Best Large Employers by Forbes Magazine, we are proud to live by a strong set of values and strive to "Engage and Delight – One Customer at a Time." Guided by our values—Own It, Commit to Excellence, Be Agile, Speak Up, and Better Together. We are a diverse team driven by integrity, accountability, and a commitment to exceptional results. We embrace change, prioritize continuous learning, and foster collaboration, transparency, and healthy debate. Together, we set each other up for success to achieve enterprise-wide goals.

What You Gain: 

• Competitive compensation and benefits program with no waiting period – you’re eligible from your first day!

• 401(k) program with 5% employer match and 100% vesting as soon as you enroll.

• Comprehensive paid time off opportunities, including immediate access to four weeks of vacation, five sick days, parental leave and 11 company holidays (including two floating holidays).

• Leaders who are invested in supporting your accelerated career growth, plus paid training, tuition reimbursement and a robust educational platform – DevelopU – with more than 10,000 free courses to support you along the way.

• An inclusive working environment where you can build meaningful work relationships with a diverse group of professionals. Take advantage of opportunities to build on our team-oriented culture, such as joining one of our Employee Resource Groups.

• Access to our wellness and employee assistance programs.

Job Description:

About the Role:

We are seeking a Category Inventory Planner based out of our corporate office in Oak Brook, IL. The Category Inventory Planner manages the execution of the product life cycle within their defined categories. This may include new product launches, graphic redesigns, strategic and national transitions, and customer item discontinuations. The Category Inventory Planner helps create and execute strategies that align with internal procedures, maximize customer expectations, and minimize potential financial liability.

You’ll add value to this role by performing various functions including, but not limited to:

• Manage key Product Lifecycle activities for new, transitioning, and exiting products in planning and cross functional systems. Turn operational inputs into business decisions; help drive action through defining risk and opportunities.
• Provide initial, ongoing, and final liability analysis for transition projects utilizing key planning systems and customer inputs. Drive conversation to adjust transition/exit plans where needed.
• Offer expertise in cross functional meetings on transition statuses and document status updates to maintain project momentum.
• Conduct monthly audits of category risk and costs to identify macro-opportunities for supply chain improvements.
• Utilize supply planning systems to provide real-time data and identify where data gaps exist.
• Host and facilitate monthly or bi-monthly review of transitions within category for category leaders, highlighting potential financial exposure.
• Build relationships with cross functional partners within the supply chain and across the organization including Growth Unit leaders, Sales, Commercialization, R&D, Finance, and Data Management.
• Analyze process needs and balance competing interests to determine the resources needed to meet objectives.

Important Details:

• This is a full-time, hybrid role based out of our Oak Brook, IL office.
• The anticipated compensation for this position ranges from $63,000.00 - 94,400.00 USD annually. This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, specific competencies, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics and business or organizational needs. For certain roles, the successful candidate may be eligible for annual discretionary merit compensation award, bonus and equity pay. organizational needs. For certain roles, the successful candidate may be eligible for annual discretionary merit compensation award, bonus and equity pay.

You’ll fit right in if you have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Finance, Statistics, Operations Research, or related field preferred
• Minimum 2 years supply chain, production scheduling, demand planning, or operations experience
• Intermediate Microsoft Excel skills required (produce & maintain graphs/tables)
• Experience working in SAP and/or Blue Yonder preferred
• Strong analytical skills in synthesizing data to make effective data-based decisions
• Communication and presentation skills; able to articulate complex issues in a concise way to enable effective decision making with stakeholders throughout the organization.

                                                             

                                                                                                                                           

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At TreeHouse Foods, we embrace diversity and inclusion for innovation and growth. We are committed to building inclusive teams and an equitable workplace for our employees to bring their true selves to work to help us “Engage and Delight – One Customer at a Time”. TreeHouse Foods is an Equal Opportunity Employer that prohibits discrimination or harassment of any type. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Applicants who require an accommodation to participate in the job application or hiring process should contact [email protected]

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