Merchandise Planner - Bakery jobs in Richmond, VA

WE RISE TOGETHER!

At AMF, we are dedicated to working alongside our customers to produce better food for families around the world while creating better lives for our teammates, families, customers, and communities.

AMF Bakery Systems is the world's largest manufacturer of high-speed bakery equipment. We provide complete automated bakery solutions for numerous categories, including Soft Bread and roll, Artisan Bread and roll, Cake and Pie, Pizza and Flatbread and Pastry and Croissant. AMF is part of the Markel Food Groups, the leading equipment supplier to food manufactures around the world.

Our culture and shared values are spelled out in "The Markel Style" as we encourage and recognize teammates that bring these values to life each day. With the style as our guide, our teams pursue excellence while keeping a sense of humor. Seeking to know our customers' needs, we aim to build financial value for our shareholders while sharing success with others and winning together. We are inspired to work hard and encouraged to challenge management to find better ways of doing things. At AMF, we believe in fostering the professional development and personal potential of our diverse workforce.

If you're searching for the next company to call home, AMF Bakery Systems provides a teammate-centered culture with exciting career growth opportunities. We strive to build extraordinary teams by seeking out a wide range of talent, experiences, and diverse backgrounds. Diversity of thought and the collaboration of various life experiences are what drive growth and innovation at AMF.

Job Description

The Production Planner is responsible for the proactive troubleshooting of late shipments or soon-to-be late shipments overall follow up and stock-level planning of parts in support of the parts business. This individual will work collaboratively with the supply chain and purchasing to continually improve processes, document processes, and identify ways to deliver improvements in our on-time shipments.

Key Responsibilities

• Work Orders -support prioritization of work orders and completion of work orders for commercial parts business.
• Breakdowns - drive to shipment any high priority break down parts orders to meet customer's requirements.
• Parts Orders - ensure proper safety stock is planned for parts including updates as needed based on demand and lead time.
• Parts Orders - look forward at upcoming shipments to ensure that if they are going to be delayed communication is provided to the CCR's so that they can notify customers.
• Parts Orders - work to "unstick" orders that are not moving through the system to improve the "shipment to promise" KPI.
• Support daily GEMBA walk with identification of key issues for teammates and reporting on results.
• Support troubleshooting and research on specific "stuck" orders by partnering with different departments and teammates.
• Support a culture of safety and maintain a zero-accident environment. Ensure a safe and suitable work environment for self, teammates, and customers.

Required Knowledge/Skills & Experience

• Min. of 3 years of experience working in a business that sells both "produced" and "commercial" parts
• Basic mechanical and electrical parts knowledge or aptitude is a plus.
• Superior Microsoft Excel skills.

• Superior knowledge and aptitude with ERP systems, Microsoft Dynamics D365 expertise a plus.
• Ability to communicate, collaborate, and influence people from different departments and functions.
• Is excited about process improvement, digging into root causes of failures, and documenting improvements.
• Demonstrated ability to document processes and identify and document problems and solutions clearly and concisely.
• LEAN experience is a plus.
• Ability to handle detailed, complex work with competing priorities.
• Motivated, focused, friendly, patient, organized, and proactive individual who can work with minimal direction.

Working Conditions

This position is typically moving between an office environment and the manufacturing and warehouse floor. There will be occasional physical effort and risk associated with working in the warehouse.

COMPETENCIES

Customer Focus- Ensures that the customer perspective is a driving force behind business decisions and activities; develops and implements service practices that meet customers' and own organization's needs.

Results Focused - Can be counted on to meet or exceed goals; consistently delivers top performance; very bottom-line oriented and strategically focused; motivates self and others to achieve results. Delivers error-free work and does so with a high level of integrity.

Relationship Building/Communication Skills - Demonstrates exceptional verbal skills in interpersonal interactions and instructional delivery so that the intended purpose is achieved. Prepares written material that is appropriate for the audience and accomplishes the intended purpose. Builds effective relationships of trust and credibility with internal and external customers that lead to buy-in and sponsorship within their businesses.

Problem-solving- Asks good questions and probes all sources for answers; sees underlying or hidden patterns; looks beyond the obvious and doesn't stop at the first answers. Uses rigorous logic and methods to analyze and understand why problems occur; generates and implements creative, cost-effective and realistic solutions.

Leads with Values - Drives to win in a way that demonstrates values:

respect for the individual, integrity, trust, credibility, continuous improvement, and teamwork.