Beam Suntory is Crafting the Spirits that Stir the World. Rooted in two centuries of family heritage, Beam Suntory has evolved into the world's third largest leading premium spirits company ... where each employee is treated like family and trusted with legacy. With our greatest assets - our premium spirits and our people - we're driving growth through impactful marketing, innovation and an entrepreneurial spirit. Beam Suntory is a place where you can come Unleash your Spirit by making an impact each and every day.
Materials Manager
The following position is open in Frankfort Kentucky, United States.
What makes this a great opportunity?
Beam is Crafting the Spirits that Stir the World. Rooted in two centuries of family heritage, Beam has evolved into one of the world's leading premium spirits companies... where each employee is treated like family and trusted with a legacy. With our greatest assets - our premium spirits and our people - we're driving growth through impactful marketing, innovation, and entrepreneurial spirit.
This role will be instrumental in a larger initiative within North American Operations. As Beam strives to be the "world's fastest growing spirits company," the company aims to gain competitive advantage through Lean manufacturing, strategic planning, and strengthened procurement. The Materials Manager will lead their team to immediately drive efficiency and effectiveness across producing facilities in North America by improving business processes, building cross functional cooperation, and increasing focus on streamlining manual processes.
Role Responsibilities
Lead and manage the Material Planning teams, providing regular goals, performance feedback and coaching to help the team meet their requirements.
Represent North America Supply Chain and Operations in cross functional workstreams, including S&OP and New Product Development.
Direct responsibility for improving forecasting, inventory levels, service levels and inventory turns.
Develop relationships with external partners and oversee supplier forecasting process, leveraging MRP to optimize supply availability while minimizing E&O inventory risk.
Provide insights to future capacity and supply constraints from our suppliers as well as material handling/warehousing constraints within our operating units.
Determine item level MRP strategies and partner with Procurement to ensure timely and accurate execution of purchase orders and track on time shipments.
Be the expert on Product Lifecycle Management and MRP to influence cross functional team members outside of supply chain.
Drive standardization and implement global best practices for MRP to drive inventory optimization within the North American Supply Chain.
Contribute to development of business strategies and tactics to address supply chain optimization problems, as identified.
Qualifications & Experience
4-year college degree preferred/relevant experience considered
Strong MS Excel skills
Minimum 3 years of relevant planning/project management experience in a high-performance manufacturing facility - food and beverage industry preferred
APICS, CIPM, or NAPM, CPM certification preferred
Analytically inclined - able to merge large data sets, analyze data, synthesize business insight and clearly communicate findings.
Exceptional communication skills, including the ability to partner with and influence internal partners and external vendors
Problem Solver - applies critical-thinking skills to generate, evaluate and implement solutions.
Change Agile - Successfully adapts to changing situations. Manages ambiguity in the function/ role.
Collaborative across cross functional teams
At Beam Suntory, people are our number one priority, and we believe our people grow together in diverse and inclusive environments where their unique insights, experiences and backgrounds are valued and respected. Beam Suntory is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, military veteran status and all other characteristics, attributes or choices protected by law. All recruitment and hiring decisions are based on an applicant's skills and experience.
Nearest Major Market: Frankfort
