Raw Materials Planning Specialist

About Monster Energy:

Forget about blending in. That's not our style. We're the risk takers, the trailblazers, the gamechangers. We're not perfect and we don't pretend to be. We're raw, unfiltered, and a bit unconventional. Our drive is just like our athletes, unrivaled. The power is in your hands to define what success looks like and where you want to take your career. It's not just about what we do, but about who we become on along the way. We are much more than a brand here. We are a way of life, a mindset. Join us.

A Day in the Life:

Responsible for planning raw material requirements in a timely and efficient manner to support the company’s sales goals. This includes using planning and execution systems, along with other software tools, to create purchase orders, maintain optimal inventory levels, track and monitor supply orders through to fulfillment, and ensure supply plans are delivered on schedule and in the required quantities.

The Impact You'll Make:

• Prepare and issue purchase orders according to company purchasing policies and procedures.
• Confirm purchase orders with vendors including delivery date, quantity, unit of measure etc.
• Track and expedite purchase orders by working with suppliers, carriers, etc.
• Maintain purchase orders within SAP to ensure the current details are shown and supports
• operational plans.
• Build good work relationship with suppliers and other cross functional team members.
• Ensure accurate planning parameters are reflected in SAP and regularly review to achieve  optimum materials inventory holding within the network.
• Proactively identify slow moving and obsolete raw material risks, report and follow up by closely working with other functional teams.
• Regularly check for potential stock‐outs due to purchasing delivery delay.
• Take immediate action to ensure material availability by expediting PO for earlier delivery when necessary.
• Closely work with the product development teams to support new products implementation
• through the supply of new raw materials.
• Monitor and evaluate supplier performance around delivery performance and order fulfilment.
• Issue purchase forecasts to vendors and support Raw Material Supply Manager in holding formal
• supply reviews with main vendors.
• Coordinate raw material quality issues with all stakeholders to ensure appropriate corrective actions are initiated.

Who You Are:

• Education: Prefer a Bachelor's Degree in the field of ‐‐Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, Logistics or similar field of study
• Experience: More than 5 years of experience in inventory management, planning or supply chain
• More than 5 years of experience in demand forecasting and machine capacity
• Computer skills: Advance user Microsoft Office
• Certifications & Licenses: Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Software Experience (SAP Preferred)
• Additional Preferred Knowledge, Skills, or Abilities to be successful in this role: Fluent in English