Analyst, Procurement and Materials Planning - Packaging

As the Analyst, Procurement and Materials Planning - Packaging at Tru Fru, you will manage material planning, forecasting, and inventory strategies across a multi-site, multi-vendor network. You will partner cross-functionally to ensure packaging availability, optimize safety stock, minimize obsolescence, and support network expansions, reformulations, and new supplier onboarding through data-driven analysis and continuous process improvement.

What you'll do

• Develop & maintain planning tools to track ingredient inventory for multi-site, multi-category/brand, and multi-vendor network.
• Recommend optimized network wide ingredient safety stock targets, replenishment processes, KPIs.
• Issue monthly and ad hoc ingredient forecasts to suppliers and internal stakeholders as needed.
• Review ingredients contact balance report with Procurement and communicate updates to co-manufacturers.
• Provide risk analysis on ingredient waste for Finance to accrue.
• Track reformulations and network reconfiguration projects to deliver obsolescence at or within budgeted allowance. Articulate and broadcast outlier obsolescence to cross functional team.
• Manage and execute ingredient material supply strategy for new co-manufacturing locations ramp up. Responsible for developing and implementing best practices with new co-man material planning counterpart.
• Onboard new ingredient suppliers from material planning perspective. To involve communicating clear forecast requirements on an established cadence for supplier's production capacity planning.
• Initiate in-network transfers of ingredients to minimize risk of obsolescence and mitigate risk to service due to material shortage or delay.
• Manage materials related inputs in systems (Blue Yonder, SAP, Reltio, etc.).

What you'll bring to tru fru

You are...

• A professional with experience liaising with suppliers, co-manufacturers, and internal stakeholders.
• Skilled in material planning, inventory management, and maintaining target safety stock levels.
• Experienced in scenario planning and analyzing demand fluctuations to support purchasing decisions.
• Knowledgeable in maintaining strategy documents, including lead times, MOQs, shelf life, and other key planning parameters.
• Detail-oriented and able to document processes clearly in SOPs.
• Collaborative and able to train and support new hires effectively.

You have...

• 3-5 years of experience in a material planning or supply planning role.
• 1-2 years of project management experience.
• Bachelor's degree in business management, supply chain, or a related field.
• Experience developing planning strategies for a complex product portfolio.
• Demonstrated experience working with a Tier 1 ERP system.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, with advanced knowledge of Excel.
• Experience working in a multi-site, multi-vendor network.

Pluses

• APICS Certification
• Vendor management experience (CPG industry is a plus).
• Experience working through systems implementations.

Certain states and localities require employers to post a reasonable estimate of salary range. Actual salary will be based on a variety of factors, including location, experience, skill set, performance, licensure and certification, and business needs. The range for this position in other geographic locations may differ.