Materials Scheduler & Analyst – Bulk Liquids & Ingredients

Diageo is seeking a Materials Scheduler & Analyst – Bulk Liquids & Ingredients to join their team in Montgomery, Alabama. The successful candidate will be responsible for translating supply requirements into executable material schedules across Diageo's North America supply network, with a focus on bulk liquids, ingredients, and other critical production inputs.

Key Responsibilities:

• Material scheduling & execution: Translate production plans, forecasts, and replenishment requirements into executable schedules for bulk liquids, ingredients, and assigned materials.
• Maintain material requirements and supply signals in SAP and OMP, ensuring they accurately reflect the latest production plan.
• Review material availability against planned production and proactively identify shortages, excesses, timing gaps, and other constraints.
• Expedite, defer, or reschedule material movements to maintain supply continuity while managing inventory appropriately.
• Monitor purchase orders, stock transfer orders, planned/process orders, and other supply elements, driving exceptions through resolution.
• Coordinate inter-site material movements, ensuring requirements are aligned across sending and receiving locations.

Bulk Liquids & Ingredient Planning:

• Maintain short- and medium-term visibility of bulk liquid and ingredient requirements across assigned locations.
• Translate finished goods production requirements into corresponding bulk liquid and ingredient demand.
• Coordinate with liquid planning, processing, manufacturing, and logistics teams to confirm availability and timing.
• Support monthly/quarterly Bulk Best Plan processes, consolidating requirements, identifying gaps, and ensuring future demand is appropriately represented in planning systems.
• Identify potential material availability, lead-time, transportation, tank-capacity, aging, or receiving constraints that could affect production.

Inventory & Exception Management:

• Monitor inventory, projected coverage, and consumption against plan and identify potential shortages, excesses, or abnormal movements.
• Investigate material discrepancies through SAP transactions, orders, receipts, issues, transfers, and inventory records.
• Partner with Manufacturing, Warehouse, and Materials teams to resolve transactional or physical inventory discrepancies affecting planning.
• Use MRP and planning-system exceptions to prioritize actions and distinguish genuine supply constraints from planning, master-data, or inventory-record issues.
• Support inventory health by balancing material availability with excess, aging, and obsolescence risk.

Analytics, Digital & Continuous Improvement:

• Analyze demand, supply, inventory, and material movements to identify emerging risks and opportunities.
• Develop exception reporting and analytical tools to improve visibility of shortages, late receipts, supply gaps, and inventory risks.
• Develop and maintain Power BI dashboards and digital planning solutions that convert complex planning and operational data into actionable insights.
• Use Power Query, data modeling, Excel, and automation to simplify reporting, improve data quality, and reduce manual planning activity.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Engineering, Business, Logistics, or a related discipline preferred; equivalent relevant experience will also be considered.
• Experience in materials planning, supply planning, production scheduling, inventory management, logistics, or manufacturing operations.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience with SAP MRP and materials planning, including material requirements, inventory, purchase orders, stock transfer orders, planned/process orders, and exception management.
• Strong analytical capability and experience working with complex planning, inventory, and production data.
• Strong Excel capability; experience developing Power BI or comparable business-intelligence solutions strongly preferred.