Materials Resource Planning Analyst (remote USA anywhere)

Location: remote USA anywhere (pacific time zone preferred)

Reports To: Senior Manager, Supply Planning

Liquid Death is a healthy beverage company with ice-cold sustainable cans designed to murder your thirst. Founded in January of 2019 and based in Los Angeles, California, Liquid Death is one of the nation’s fastest growing beverage brands taking a completely unnecessary approach to canned water and iced teas. Unnecessary things tend to be far more interesting, fun, hilarious, captivating, memorable, exciting, and cult-worthy. Taking the world’s healthiest beverage and making it just as unnecessarily entertaining as the unhealthy brands has put Liquid Death on the map for LinkedIn's Top Startups 2022, Contagious's Brand of the Year 2022, Ad Age Top Marketer of the Year 2022, and Medium’s cult-worthy brands among other accolades.

As Liquid Death continues to bring unnecessarily awesome beverage options to more people, Liquid Death is equally as excited to promote and help fund alternative art, music, and entertainment alongside the brand.

Role Overview

As a Materials Resource Planning (MRP) Analyst, this role is responsible for ensuring the efficient flow of materials throughout the supply chain to support production plans, inventory control, and cost optimization. This role involves analyzing demand forecasts, managing supplier relationships, and optimizing inventory levels to prevent shortages or overstock situations.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for end-to-end raw material planning with various suppliers
• Convert supply planning signals from the production planning process into optimal buying quantities for all raw materials
• Evaluate and validate material requirements, manage releases with copackers and vendors
• Coordinate with internal and external customers on production plans, raw material inbounds, timing, and work through risk mitigation
• Create purchase orders and transact deliveries/receipts in Netsuite for raw materials
• Monitor and track key KPIs for all raw material vendors
• Provide material forecasts to vendors to mitigate supply shortages and minimize aged inventory
• Support a seamless month end process including closing POs, raw material Co-manufacturer reconciliation, raw material receipts, inventory movements, and complete all master data setups.
• Work closely with New Product Commercialization resources to ensure commercialization and launch meet plan
• Make continuous updates and refinements that will lead to cost savings, improve accuracy, and create efficiencies
• Perform other duties as required
  
  

Qualification Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain or other related field preferred
• A minimum of 3+ years in a relatable Supply Chain role where production planning and raw materials planning were critical to success
• Experience in CPG industry with new product launch and/or experience working with comanufacturer preferred but not required
• Ability to think and plan strategically, operating in KPI driven culture
• Experience in NetSuite or ERP preferred but not required
• Advanced Excel skills (pivot tables, vlook ups, graphs, etc.) for planning, analyzing and manipulating large data sets required
• Exceptional organizational and time management skills to handle multiple projects in a fast paced, rapid growth,start-up environment
• Deep comfort with internal and external collaboration to work with internal stakeholders, commercialization team, accounting team, vendors, and comanufacturers
• Good problem solving and critical thinking skills
• Self-starter who takes initiative
• Strong written and verbal skills to effectively communicate information with stakeholders in an influential manner
• Willingness to travel domestically up to 10% as needed
  
  

The typical salary range for this position is: $75,000 - $90,000

The actual salary offer will take into account multiple factors including skills, experience, education and location. Please note that the salary details listed in role postings reflect the base salary only, not total compensation, which includes equity and benefits.

At Liquid Death, we believe that killer benefits make all the difference. That’s why we offer Blue Shield medical plans with HMO (CA Only), PPO, and HDHP options (including an HSA), FSA and Dependent Care FSA, along with Guardian dental and vision coverage. Our UNUM packages include life insurance, AD&D, disability benefits, and employee-paid options like accident, hospitalization, and critical illness coverage. We match 100% of your Empower Retirement contributions up to 4% after just three months and even help crush your student debt while saving for retirement with our Student Loan Retirement Match. Our wellness perks, including Headspace, ClassPass memberships, and a robust EAP, help you keep your soul hydrated, while SNOO Bassinets give your little ones the VIP treatment. Pets are part of the crew too, so we offer Nationwide pet insurance to keep them happy and healthy. Add in 17 paid holidays, Flex PTO, and travel assistance, and you’ve got a benefits lineup as fierce as our mission to declare #DeathToPlastic

Ensure your Liquid Death job offer is legitimate and don't fall victim to fraud! Liquid Death never seeks payment from job applicants and will never request a meeting via Skype. Liquid Death recruiters will only reach out to candidates from an mail@ats.rippling.com email address. For added security, where possible, apply through our company website at www.liquiddeath.com/pages/careers.