Supply / Material Planner

About Maesa

The next gen beauty company, Maesa is transforming the industry by incubating and growing meaningful, innovative brands and making prestige beauty accessible. Maesa believes beauty ignites inspiration, creativity, imagination, and connection, sparking new ideas and possibilities, and meeting unmet consumer needs. Through best-in-class design, formulation, brand creation and marketing capabilities, Maesa delivers new, better and different products with an unsurpassed speed to market. Maesa works with a variety of retailers to create and launch brands across beauty and wellness categories. The current portfolio includes Kristin Ess, Hairitage by Mindy McKnight, Fine'ry, Being Frenshe, and Niches & Nooks among other brands. For more information, visit www.maesa.com. 

Role Overview

We are seeking a meticulous Supply/Material planner to join our team. The Supply and Material Planner is responsible for ensuring the timely availability of raw materials, components, and finished goods to support customer demand and business objectives. This role develops supply and inventory plans, manages material requirements, coordinates with suppliers and internal stakeholders, and drives inventory optimization while maintaining target service levels.

The position plays a key role in balancing demand, supply, inventory, capacity, and cost across the end-to-end supply chain.

This role is based in New York City and follows a hybrid work schedule, with a minimum of 3 days per week in the office. 

Key Responsibilities

Supply Planning

• Develop and maintain supply plans that align with demand forecasts, production schedules, and inventory targets.
• Convert demand plans into executable supply plans while considering capacity and supply constraints.
• Monitor and manage supply performance to ensure product availability and customer service objectives are achieved.
• Identify supply risks and implement mitigation strategies.

Material Planning

• Generate and manage material requirements plans (MRP).
• Ensure timely procurement and replenishment of raw materials, packaging materials, and components.
• Review material shortages and coordinate corrective actions with Procurement, Manufacturing, and Suppliers.
• Maintain appropriate inventory levels to support operational requirements without creating excess inventory.

Inventory Management

• Monitor inventory health, safety stock, reorder points, and inventory targets.
• Optimize inventory investment while maintaining desired service levels.
• Analyze excess, obsolete, and slow-moving inventory and execute reduction plans.
• Manage inventory balancing across warehouses and distribution centers.

Supplier and Procurement Coordination

• Collaborate with suppliers to ensure material availability and on-time delivery.
• Track supplier performance, lead times, and delivery commitments.
• Escalate supply disruptions and support recovery plans.
• Participate in supplier reviews and continuous improvement initiatives.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with Demand Planning, Manufacturing, New Products Development, Procurement, Logistics, Customer Service, and Finance teams.
• Participate in Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) and Integrated Business Planning (IBP) processes.
• Communicate material constraints, inventory risks, and supply opportunities to stakeholders.
• Support new product launches, promotions, and discontinuations.

Data Analysis and Reporting

• Monitor and report key supply chain metrics and inventory performance.
• Develop recommendations to improve planning processes and inventory productivity.
• Maintain accurate planning parameters within ERP and planning systems.

Continuous Improvement

• Drive initiatives to improve service levels, inventory turns, planning accuracy, and working capital performance.
• Support process standardization and automation efforts.
• Help investigate inventory discrepancies and work cross-functionally to reconcile the differences.
• Support inventory transfers between suppliers, fillers, warehouses, and third-party logistics partners.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Operations, Engineering, Logistics, or a related field.
• 3–7 years of experience in Supply Planning, Material Planning, Inventory Management, or Supply Chain Operations.
• Experience in manufacturing, consumer goods, pharmaceuticals, retail, or industrial products preferred.
• Proficiency with ERP systems such as NetSuite, SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, JD Edwards, or similar platforms.
• Experience with planning tools such as Anaplan, SAP IBP, Kinaxis RapidResponse, Blue Yonder, OMP, o9, or Anaplan.
• Knowledge of supply chain analytics and reporting tools such as Power BI or Tableau
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
• Strong analytical and quantitative capabilities.
• Bilingual in English and Spanish preferred.

What We Offer   

$70,000/yr - $85,000/yr. Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location. This position is eligible for participation in a discretionary bonus plan based on individual and company performance.   

Maesa offers a variety of benefits to eligible employees. Employees can choose to enroll in health insurance coverage, wellness programs, life and disability insurance, and retirement savings plans. Through generous paid time off, a hybrid office setup, and paid leave options, Maesa encourages wellness and balance among employees. 

Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location.

Our Commitment to You  

At Maesa, we live by our values of collaboration, curiosity, game-changing, creativity, and discipline.  We believe our people and partners are a creative force that catalyzes the possibilities in beauty to break through traditional limits and discover the “new” without restriction. We prioritize creating and fostering a welcoming environment for employees, partners, ideas, approaches, and endeavors — all through a spirit of warmth and inclusivity. As set forth in Maesa’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.  

Our EVP

Maesa is the next-gen beauty company, where bold ideas become beautiful brands. We ignite the dreamer and doer in each of us. We move at the speed of culture to push boundaries and redefine possibilities unleashing #maesamagic everyday. By fostering a start-up spirit, we equip everyone to lead with accountability & execute with excellence. We champion each voice and empower every journey, creating an environment where we celebrate diversity of thinking, calculated risk taking, and cutting-edge innovation. Growth is personal, intentional, and limitless.

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