Material Planning Manager

Overview:
PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. PepsiCo generated more than $79 billion in net revenue in 2021, driven by a complementary beverage and convenient foods portfolio that includes LAY’S ®, DORITOS ®, CHEETOS ®, GATORADE ®, PEPSI ®, QUAKER ® and more. PepsiCo's product portfolio includes a wide range of enjoyable foods and beverages, including many iconic brands that generate more than $1 billion each in estimated annual retail sales.

Guiding PepsiCo is our vision to Be the Global Leader in Beverages and Convenient Foods by Winning with PepsiCo Positive (pep+). pep+ is our strategic end-to-end transformation that puts sustainability and human capital at the center of how we will create value and growth by operating within planetary boundaries and inspiring positive change for planet and people.

Our employees drive our culture. No two days are the same; we are dynamic and full of passionate teams that embrace new ideas through our collaborative spirit. At PepsiCo, we know that our company can only succeed when our associates and the society we serve flourishes. We are committed to fostering a diverse workforce by creating a collaborative, equitable and inclusive space where everyone, regardless of what we look like, where we come from or who we love, has a voice. At PepsiCo we create a Space to be you.

Now we are looking for this position:
**Responsibilities**:
MATERIAL PLANNING MANAGER

**Main Purpose**

Lead the material planning team and process for Mx Business Services, manage material planning and execution, ensuring optimal efficiency's across all channels of the supply chain. Ensure that strategic material planning processes are in place to enable operational and production continuity. Develop, lead, and manage a team to evolve the material planning processes as well as raw material and packaging inventory. Orchestrate strategies, improve efficiency's and ensure consistent methodologies to ensure alignment in the process.

**Accountabilities / Responsibilities**
- Create an accurate materials plan to support production and lead partnerships.
- Manage root cause process and lead plans to drive continuous improvement.
- Work close with internal and external parties to ensure supply of materials are in place to satisfy production requirements.
- Provides leadership, coaching, focus, motivation and encouragement to direct reports.
- Design, develop and implement flexible material processes to provide shortage risk visibility, correct safety stock levels, and drive process improvements.
- Manage a consistent materials planning processes are applied across the business, while ensuring SAP MRP works according to the business needs. Maintain accurate planning parameters for MRP.
- Partner with stakeholders on product change requests, review and communicate impact / risk on material planning.
- Create integrated processes among master planners, purchasing, logistics, and outside with suppliers to execute the planning/replenishment process.
- Minimize excesses and obsolescence through immediate actions on supplies as response to changes on demand.
- Collaborate with and influence procurement team to look for solutions and sourcing recommendations and decisions.
- Prepare the daily and weekly material plan arrivals, coordinate the Local Supply Chain with the Suppliers and track the daily and weekly execution and make the correct decision to change the route, if need.
- Establish a robust governance process with Material Planning and Procurement to ensure short term needs are met.
- Monitor the daily material plan, the KPIs and Reports and define the action plans to recover and improve them in the short term.

Qualifications:
**Qualifications / Requirement**
- Graduate in Business Administration, Engineering, Economy and related.
- Exrperience in Supply Chain, specially in Planning.
- Use excel and power point, power BI desired.
- Strategical and analytical thinking.
- Results oriented.
- Strong leadership and a good interpersonal relationship.
- Collaborative and influencer.
- Resilient.
- Analytical thinking to react and creat plans for short and medium term.
- Comunications skills.
- Discipline and organization.
- APICS certificate is a diferencial.
- Collaborative and influencer.

If you have the profile that we are looking, send us your CV by this via, if it's possible that you can participate in this process we will contact you ASAP, if not we will keep your info in our base data for 6 months.

**Thank you so much for your interest in PepsiCo