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Morton Salt is an iconic company with a strong heritage and a bright future. Since 1848, we have been improving lives and enhancing everyday moments at home, at work and virtually everywhere in between. We help unlock the flavors in food, make roads and sidewalks safer, improve the water in baths, pools, and homes, and keep businesses and industries running. We are a dedicated team who constantly strives to do better together, and we are passionate about building a sustainable future for our company, the communities in which we operate, and the world around us. By joining our team, you will contribute to producing and delivering every form of salt that enhances everyday life.

Job Summary\ *This position is responsible for analyzing, planning, and managing the supply of raw materials and ingredients for the third-party manufacturing network. Oversee the supply chain from purchase order to delivery, including, shipping, receiving and materials consumption. In addition, this position is responsible for supporting best-in-class operations strategies for external manufacturing (Copacking operations/co-mans). This position will play a critical role in optimizing and streamlining Contract Manufacturing processes to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and internal/external customer experience as well as providing strategic solutions to support company objectives. The jobholder will also ensure co-packer adherence to Morton Salts quality and production standards through site visits, metric tracking and process improvement initiatives.**\

Duties and Responsibilities

• Collaborate with third party manufacturing sites, procurement, and supply planning to ensure material availability for production at the producing co-manufacturing facilities.

• • Effectively plan materials by placing purchase orders to avoid material shortages while recognizing warehouse storage constraints and site-specific receiving requirements.
  • Establish logical reorder points and safety stock levels within MRP.
  • Maintain/update key system fields, parameters and modifiers that impact the planning process and projected supplier output (e.g. lead times and minimum order quantities, etc.)

• Collaborate with packaging suppliers to evaluate and determine vendor stock levels and establish min/max guidelines.

• Manage the day-to-day stable operations at our co-packing facilities.

• Escalate manufacturing performance issues to procurement and ensure best in class service both on day-to-day processes and overall quality of finished goods.

• Ensure that compliance controls are adhered to, to mitigate risks related to quality and customer service.

• Oversee the disposition of obsolete, defective or rejected materials.

• Lead/participate in cross-functional projects such as packaging changes, new product launches and innovation, seasonal or promotional event planning, etc. by developing, managing and communicating an executable material planning strategy.

• Lead in the vetting & evaluation process of potential co-manufacturing partners as needed based on company initiatives, including line assessments and first-run trials.

• Lead/manage creation of new copacker locations in the ERP system and provide login credentials for all co-man support staff

• Ensure co-packers are following Mortons process for day-to-day operations related to inventory:

• • Oversee production confirmation and scheduling
  • Manage and execute the physical inventory process provided by finance including weekly, monthly, and annual physical counts.
  • Implement processes and procedures to minimize inventory count variances and reduce adjustments.

• Create and maintain annual budgets for copacker locations to capture expenses related to all non-production related activities (e.g. storage fees, demurrage, rework, etc.).

• Establish and monitor service level agreements (SLAs) to ensure timely and accurate delivery of Contract Manufacturing services.

• Report and evaluate the performance of co-manufacturing partners, measuring key performance indicators (KPIs) such as product quality, on-time delivery, and cost efficiency. Manage profit & loss for all contract manufacturers.

• Acts as the liaison between the contract manufacturer and functional groups within Morton