Production Planner

Aspire Bakeries is a North American baking company with a leadership position in specialty frozen baked goods. Formed from leading bakery companies, its innovative food portfolio includes breads, artisan breads, buns, cookies, donuts, muffins and pastries from beloved brands like La Brea Bakery®, Otis Spunkmeyer®, and Oakrun Farm Bakery®. With 13 bakeries in North America, we are committed to driving innovation, predicting upcoming consumer trends and flavors, and exceeding our customers’ expectations. Aspire Bakeries champions the values of Integrity, Ownership, Customer Focus, Creativity and Care to help us deliver on People Safety, Food Safety, Quality and Collaboration.

Responsibilities:

• Creation of weekly production schedule considering all restrictions to equipment, manning, product mix and customer demand - modify when necessary
• Work closely with all departments, specifically, operations, FSQA, inventory control to stay on top of inventory condition, volume and timing issues
• Work closely with Specialist, Bakery-Procurement to ensure material availability and customer demand
• Support customer international production planning
• Coordinate with customer development team
• Create and revise process orders
• Maintain and publish various inventory and planning reports
• Manage LTO/promo material activity
• React promptly to unplanned downtime and adjust schedules and process orders accordingly
• Other duties as reasonably assigned

Qualifications:

• High level of interpersonal communication skills, both written and verbal
• Ability to communicate effectively at all levels
• Ability to multi-task whilst maintaining a productive, organized work environment
• Attention to detail and highly organized in work methods
• Completes assigned tasks in a timely manner and accurately
• Demonstrated ability to problem solve, adapt and troubleshoot
• High School Diploma or equivalent

• Strong systems abilities in SAP
• Relevant experience in a similar planning position

Aspire Bakeries is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.