Operations Planning Coordinator - Emporia, KS

Operations Planning Coordinator - Emporia, KS

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Colgate-Palmolive Company is a global consumer products company operating in over 200 countries specializing in Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care, Skin Care, and Pet Nutrition. Our products are trusted in more households than any other brand in the world, making us a household name! Join Colgate-Palmolive, a caring, innovative growth company reimagining a healthier future for people, their pets, and our planet. Guided by our core values—Caring, Inclusive, and Courageous—we foster a culture that inspires our people to achieve common goals. Together, let's build a brighter, healthier future for all. The Operations Planner/Scheduler will execute the effective finished goods production scheduling and replenishment of finished goods, raw & packaged materials to meet forecasted demand and distribution. Core Responsibilities: Meet or exceed safety and quality standards. Clearing blocked invoices and other financial transactions. Use SAP data/system to set production plans, schedule requirements, inventory management, and schedule adherence. Verify accuracy of daily transactions in SAP, production reporting systems, and yield reporting; performs monthly and quarterly inventories — physical and system. Make arrangements to maintain inventory levels while facing logistical issues; recommend contingency plans to OP&M TL to address business interruption; facilitate troubleshooting of production scheduling problems, inventory variances, and yield variances in a timely manner. Support productivity initiatives by monitoring processes to deliver against key performance goals including Production, Inventory, Scrap, Cost, Plant Service Level, Cycle Time Interval and Schedule Attainment. Work closely with Operations Planning and Materials Leader to deliver customer service, productivity, and cost results and balance priorities. Update SOP, SAP material master, and work with controller on costing of product ingredient changes. Ensure raw and packaging material inventory processes and controls to effectively manage receiving, inventory, SLOB, and working capital. Coordinate with Inventory, Planning & Deployment (IPD) team to support Hill's domestic and international demand. Adhere to operating budgets for variable and fixed overheads for the production planning and materials team. Ensure that all materials shipped and received are in compliance with corporate and government standards for quality, traceability, and bio-terrorism.