Materials Resource Planning Analyst

Location: remote USA anywhere
Reports To: Senior Manager, Supply Planning

Travel: up to 10% as needed

Liquid Death is a better for you beverage company that will murder your thirst with a wide range of low calorie beverages from water to iced tea to energy drinks. Our goal is to be the funniest beverage brand on earth and to make health and sustainability 50 times more fun.

About the Role

As a Materials Resource Planning (MRP) Analyst, this role is responsible for ensuring the efficient flow of materials throughout the supply chain to support production schedules, inventory control, and cost optimization. This role involves analyzing demand forecasts, managing supplier relationships, and optimizing inventory levels to prevent shortages or overstock situations.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for end-to-end raw material planning with various suppliers.
• Convert supply planning signals from the production planning process into optimal buying quantities for all raw materials
• Lead monthly and quarterly vendor management meetings including managing KPI’s, quality issues, and productivity initiatives
• Analyze material purchase cost against set budget and explain any variance to budget
• Evaluate and validate material requirements, manage releases with copackers and vendors and coordinate with internal and external customers on production plans, raw material inbounds, timing, and work through risk mitigation
• Create purchase orders and transact deliveries/receipts in Netsuite for raw materials
• Provide material forecasts to vendors to mitigate supply shortages and minimize aged inventory
• Support a seamless month end process including closing POs, raw material co-manufacturer reconciliation, raw material receipts, inventory movements, and complete all master data setups
• Work closely with New Product Commercialization resources to ensure commercialization and launch meet plan
• Make continuous updates and refinements that will lead to cost savings, improve accuracy, and create efficiencies
• Perform other duties as required

Qualifications Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain or other related field preferred
• A minimum of 3+ years in a relatable Supply Chain role where production planning and raw materials planning were critical to success
• Experience in CPG industry with new product launch and/or experience working with co-manufacturer preferred but not required
• Ability to think and plan strategically, operating in KPI driven culture
• Experience in NetSuite or ERP preferred but not required
• Advanced Excel skills (pivot tables, vlook ups, graphs, etc.) for planning, analyzing and manipulating large data sets required
• Exceptional organizational and time management skills to handle multiple projects in a fast paced, rapid growth,start-up environment
• Deep comfort with internal and external collaboration to work with internal stakeholders, commercialization team, accounting team, vendors, and co-manufacturers
• Good problem solving and critical thinking skills
• Self-starter who takes initiative
• Strong written and verbal skills to effectively communicate information with stakeholders in an influential manner
• Willingness to travel domestically up to 10% as needed

The typical salary range for this position is: $70,000 - $80,000

The actual salary offer will take into account multiple factors including skills, experience, education and location. Please note that the salary details listed in role postings reflect the base salary only, not total compensation, which includes equity and benefits.

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