Materials Planning Associate Manager

Overview

The Material Co-Ordinator is responsible for shaping and delivering the holistic supply strategy, aligned to PepsiCo business objectives, for the relevant category/group of categories. The holder ensures demand is met through feasible, resilient raw material category supply plans, across a multi-site manufacturing and distribution footprint, by determining optimal inventory targets and short-/mid-term sourcing routes/options (tactical network optimization).

Through close partnerships with colleagues across FtS and Markets teams, the holder is accountable for enabling feasible, executable supply plans for the OU by balancing service, inventory, network capacity, and cost parameters.

Responsibilities

• Owns midterm raw materials planning, incl. addressing capacity or inventory constraints for the relevant category, to hand over for execution
• Owns the holistic supply plan for assigned category/group of categories, translating demand into feasible production, inventory and deployment plans
• Accountable for tactical network optimization for the relevant category, working closely with Tactical Network Optimization modelers to define scenarios to run/test to achieve expected priorities on inventory and service levels
• Accountable for inventory strategy for the relevant category, working closely with Inventory Optimization (IO) to define scenarios to run/test
• Supports daily management routines and continuous improvement initiatives
• Closely collaborate with Site Integrated Planners and Value Stream DRP Planners to execute the inventory strategy by tracking actuals, root-causing any exceptions, and driving corrective actions
• Owns the holistic, OU-level supply plan for new product introductions and promotional SKUs
• Coordinates with manufacturing sites and co-manufacturers to ensure supply feasibility, escalating risks and supporting volume rebalancing decisions
• Partners with local Market teams to understand and challenge demand assumptions, and identify market-driven risks and opportunities; agree and own recovery actions to resolve demand-supply imbalances
• Serves as point of escalation for FtS Planners and local/Market teams as needed
• Attend the weekly Supply Control as needed, where trade-off decisions affecting the Category are required

Qualifications

• Target years’ experience: 8 to 11+ years
• Inventory Glidepath Ownership & Tracking     
• Supply Planning Results Accountability          
• Capacity What If Scenario Planning               
• Stakeholder Collaboration (IOL/Initiatives)     
• Issue Resolution & Escalation Management   
• Proficiency level: 1 Foundational, 2 Proficient, 3 Expert