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Kao USA, Inc.
2021-12-04 07:30:03
Cincinnati,
Ohio,
United States
Job type: fulltime
Job industry: Banking & Financial Services
Job description
Overview:
The Buyer/Planner is responsible for ordering raw/packaging materials to support finished good production at Kao plants or Contract Manufacturers, and/or creating finished good production plans for products produced at Contract Manufacturers. Your primary objectives will include optimizing inventory, ensuring high customer order fill rate, minimizing obsolete and slow moving, and ensuring cohesive and collaborative internal and external partnerships.
What you will do:
How we work: Having been selected among the Worlds Most Ethical Companies for 15 consecutive years, we are a company with a purpose and strong corporate values. We never compromise on quality and craft our products with care for the consumer and the environment. At Kao, each employee can actively shape their job and their career. We work collaboratively to achieve our common goals, always aiming to deliver the best for our customers.
What we offer: A friendly and flexible work environment with competitive salaries, benefits package, ongoing development and the opportunity to enhance your skills and deliver tangible results. At Kao your voice will be heard. Your opinion really counts. We believe that change comes from taking opportunities into your own hands, so we value and reward entrepreneurial thinking and innovation.
Hiring Process: Kao embraces the diversity and the individual personalities of its people because we believe it is diversity that makes us strong. This is why we welcome applications from all areas of the global community.
The role:
The Buyer/Planner is responsible for ordering raw/packaging materials to support finished good production at Kao plants or Contract Manufacturers, and/or creating finished good production plans for products produced at Contract Manufacturers. Your primary objectives will include optimizing inventory, ensuring high customer order fill rate, minimizing obsolete and slow moving, and ensuring cohesive and collaborative internal and external partnerships.
What you will do:
- Develop daily, weekly, or monthly ordering plans by reviewing forecast streams, demands for promotions, production schedules, and inventory positions at the SKU level. Balance orders against vendor capability and continuously optimize inventory to support KPTs (Key performance targets).
- Place and monitor purchase orders to support production plans with consideration to minimum order requirements, lead times, cost effectiveness, batch splits, seasonality, as well as any upcoming restages, product changes and new product launches.
- Contribute to cross functional teams, including NPD (new product development), Consensus/Forecasting, Obsolete, Critical Sku Information reviews, Scheduling meetings, and others as required.
- Proactively identify potential stock issues and communicate to cross functional groups to support effective prioritization and decision making in production scheduling or customer order fulfillment.
- Identify potential slow-moving or obsolete inventory and communicate to drive disposition and appropriate decision making. Prevent and/or minimize by facilitating cross functional discussions when appropriate.
- Lead vendor calls, supporting collaborative partnerships with domestic and international suppliers and affiliates.
- Support Supply Chain special projects as needed
What you will need:
- Bachelor's Degree in Operations or Supply Chain Management preferred
- Experience in Supply Chain or Operations utilizing an ERP/MRP system preferred
- Service oriented and customer focused; collaborative partnerships
- Clear, credible written and verbal communication
- Demonstrated ability to work in fast-paced environment with multiple priorities
- Adaptability to change with positive attitude
- Drive for results to exceed expectations of internal and external stakeholders
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
Who we are: Founded in Japan in 1887, Kao is passionate about making a difference in people's lives with our high quality products and services that make the life of our consumers and customers more beautiful. In the region Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA) Kao focuses on premium beauty brands across three distinct sectors: Kao Salon Division, Premium Mass and our London based boutique brand Molton Brown.
How we work: Having been selected among the Worlds Most Ethical Companies for 15 consecutive years, we are a company with a purpose and strong corporate values. We never compromise on quality and craft our products with care for the consumer and the environment. At Kao, each employee can actively shape their job and their career. We work collaboratively to achieve our common goals, always aiming to deliver the best for our customers.
What we offer: A friendly and flexible work environment with competitive salaries, benefits package, ongoing development and the opportunity to enhance your skills and deliver tangible results. At Kao your voice will be heard. Your opinion really counts. We believe that change comes from taking opportunities into your own hands, so we value and reward entrepreneurial thinking and innovation.
Hiring Process: Kao embraces the diversity and the individual personalities of its people because we believe it is diversity that makes us strong. This is why we welcome applications from all areas of the global community.
Want to learn more: If you feel you are as unique as our products and want to find out why 33,000 people across the globe opted for a career with us please visit