Job Summary

Why work for us?

At Saint-Gobain, our employees have pride in belonging to an organization whose culture is made up of these core values: Trust, Empowerment, & Collaboration. Our company encourages diversity and inclusion in all its forms while our products make the world a more beautiful, safer, and sustainable home .

The Role

What’s the job?

The Raw Material Planner is to manage all incoming raw materials to the Shakopee, MN facility. The Raw Material Planner will plan, order and verify receipt of the raw materials required for the production of finished goods. This person works closely with corporate planning to manage specified raw materials, using all available scheduling tools and resources to efficiently utilize the plant’s resources consistent with forecasts and customer service objectives.

Key Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Work closely with centralized planning to develop supply chain plans to meet customer demand and working capital targets.
• Effectively manage the raw material inventory to support future production schedules and warehouse capacity.
• Daily, weekly, monthly, review of existing and future production planning and budgetary planning preparations.
• Conducts monthly raw material physical inventory assessments and cycle counts.
• Be an active contributor to cost reduction initiatives.
• Maintain raw material master data to best utilize our planning system.
• Collaborate with production scheduling and manufacturing to optimize manufacturing work schedules.
• Ensure raw material availability to support daily production and schedule conformance.
• Communicate with raw material category managers on supply chain issues and fill out vendor scorecards.
• Work with Quality team regarding raw material quality issues, returns or vendor feedback.
• Support Purchasing and Accounts Payable with vendor invoice resolution.
• Attend all operational, production and maintenance related staff meetings.
• Participate in Continuous Improvement initiatives and World Class Manufacturing initiatives.
• Other duties as specified.

Required Qualifications

What do you bring?

• Minimum High School education, 2 or 4 year degree preferred, equivalent experience will be considered.
• Prior experience in a warehouse/logistics environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong leadership skills.
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications.
• Familiarity with SAP a plus.

Legal Statement

Saint-Gobain provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. Saint-Gobain is an equal opportunity employer of individuals with disabilities and supports the hiring of veterans.

Saint-Gobain is an industry leader with thousands of talented team members who are dedicated to one unified purpose: We bring well being to people by creating great living spaces and improving daily life. You’ll find us wherever people live, work, play, move and heal. Driven by people with unique ideas and a passion for excellence, our businesses manufacture world-class products for a broad range of engaging industries.