Job Abstract

Peet’s is the original craft coffee company.  Founded in 1966 by Dutch immigrant Alfred Peet, the company remains true to its roots in the Pursuit of Better Coffee.  Sourcing only the best, highest quality beans, carefully roasting in small batches, packaging, and delivering direct to more than 15,000 stores and partners to ensure freshness, and perfecting the craft of drink making in our 250+ coffee bars, we continuously build on our deep expertise and heritage to deliver great coffee. Now, in the midst of an exciting period of growth, Peet’s is focused on sharing our passion – in offices, on campus, in grocery or specialty stores - anywhere coffee lovers live, work, or play.

Reporting to the Director of Supply Planning, the In-Stock Planning Manager will play a key role in our company growth. Duties will include leading the In-stock Planning team to ensure service levels are met with suppliers and customers. The In-stock Planning Manager is responsible for the in-bound plans for K-Cups, Capsules, Tea, Partner brand coffee bags, Retail & Away-From-Home (AFH) supplies, and key production components to suppliers, vendors, and partners. The manager will be responsible for managing the forward-looking inventory plans of inbound items while balancing costs, service levels, contractual requirements, and constraints to meet customer needs effectively.

This role is expected to monitor and maintain KPIs to ensure non-coffee finished goods and supplies are in-stock with appropriate lead times and create mitigation plans, when needed, to meet business goals.

Responsibilities:

• Manage team of 6 In-Stock Planners
• Manage inbound buying and planning for key finished goods, components, and suppliers
• Manage forward looking medium (up to 16wks) to long term (12-18mo) inbound plans
• Ensures team is managing towards inventory targets and service levels for assigned products
• Ensure teams place Work Orders and Purchase Orders on-time for finished goods receipt.
• Works with Finance to ensure all payments are made on time for suppliers/vendors
• Monitor, analyze and own KPIs/metrics across all in-bound categories, suppliers, etc.
• Manage efficient inbound inventory flows and health, including purchasing
• Ability to balance the needs and requirements of internal and external customers
• Represent In-Stock Planning in the S&OP and S&OE processes
• Identify risks and opportunities to troubleshoot, optimize inventory levels or costs in the supplier and partner network
• Ensure team continuously improves service levels, measured by success factors and KPIs
• Validate root cause analysis / reporting on operational issues, develop action plans and manage improvements with the ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously

Qualifications:

• Experience in developing and implementing inventory / replenishment teams in food or retail organizations
• Demonstrate highly developed skills to communicate and collaborate within a multichannel food or retail organization
• Demonstrate expertise as a supply chain generalist with the working knowledge and ability to understand and troubleshoot end-to-end supply chain processes including supply chain planning, procurement, logistics and distribution
• Ability to develop, plan, organize and manage multiple priorities
• Bachelor’s degree with demonstrated financial analytical acumen or equivalent work experience
• 5 -8 years in a planning manager role
• 1-2 years of supervisory experience leading planning professionals  

Peet’s Home Office is a Hybrid worksite, which requires Home Office employees to work onsite 3 days per week.

At Peet’s we hire the best people and are committed to supporting our employees and rewarding them for their work. The target annual base salary range for this position is  $110k - $135k. The actual base salary offered depends on a variety of factors, which may include, as applicable, the applicant’s qualifications for the position; years of relevant experience; specific and unique skills; level of education attained; certifications or other professional licenses held; other legitimate, non-discriminatory business factors specific to the position; and the geographic location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will perform the job. Peet’s offers a generous benefits package to full-time employees, which includes comprehensive health, dental and vision plans; a superior 401(k) plan, various paid time off programs; employee discount/perks; life insurance; disability insurance; flexible spending accounts; and an employee referral bonus program.