Supply Chain Planning Engineer

Company Name: Happy Family Brands

Company Description:

HAPPYFAMILY is a rapidly expanding, socially responsible company offering a line of organic foods targeted to kids from 1 to 101. Our products can be found in over 10,000 stores across the country, including Whole Foods, Target, Costco, HEB, Kroger, Publix, Amazon.com, and Diapers.com--not to mention local Co-ops. The company is committed to making healthy and delicious food for today’s young family with the essential nutrients needed for optimal growth and development. We are a certified B Corp with the mission to change the trajectory of children’s health through nutrition. https://happyfamilybrands.com/

Job Location: Boise, ID

Position Type: Full Time

Job Description / Duties:

The Supply Chain Planning Engineer will assist in incorporating business intelligence, master scheduling, forecasting process, and forecast information gathered from sales, new product development, operations, finance, retailers, and other sources. This position will be responsible for creating stories within the Sales & Operations planning process, and for communicating any risks and opportunities to different functions within the company. The SC Planning Engineer will additionally be responsible for ad hoc data queries and compilations as necessary to support the Planning, Operations and Customer Service teams. High levels of mathematical and analytical proficiency are critical to the performance of this role, as are the personality traits of self-confidence, relentless objectivity and the pursuit of continuous improvement. If you enjoy using your analytical skills, interacting with multiple entities and providing meaningful analysis to drive

business success, this is the career opportunity you have been searching for!

Key Responsibilities:

• Structure, validate, manage, and analyze large amounts of data specific to supply chain analytical projects, problem solving, and decision support. This will be the primary responsibility along with incorporating this into our business intelligence platform

• Recognize, follow and analyze trends in the market • Research historical data to map trends • Maps and documents processes • Prepare and present reports, charts, and tables detailing these market factors to help inform marketing and

production strategy decisions • Assist in developing formats and automating processes for reporting various supply chain metrics and Key

Performance Indicators • Work with leadership team to understand business needs/ requirements and define supply chain services needed to

address these needs/requirements • Drive continuous improvement by working with the leadership team to understand gaps in key performance areas

• Analyze supply chain performance in conjunction with systems/expectations to improve the joint supply chain metrics

• Identify the drivers of the variance in monthly forecasts

• Drive continuous improvement by working with the leadership team to understand gaps in key performance areas

• Analyze supply chain performance in conjunction with systems/expectations to improve the joint supply chain metrics

• In addition to these duties, an associate must also routinely examine their own methodologies to find ways of improving predictive accuracy

Qualifications:

Required

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Science, Economics or other quantitative majors

Preferred

• 1-2 years experience with data analysis and modeling and supply chain analysis beneficial but not required

• Strong analytical, modeling, statistical skills and analysis with attention to detail

• Programming experience or through university coursework (VBA)

• Expert (at least 2 st. deviation above average) in Excel (e.g. data manipulation, charts, and complex formula)

• Ability to understand complex business requirements and define planning tools that enable successful management of demand and/or supply plans

• Knowledge in Power BI

• Ability to communicate at different organizational levels and willingness to take initiative are particularly important

• IBF CPF, CPIM or CSCP certification is advantageous

Benefits & Perks:

• Weekly staff breakfasts, monthly volunteer outings, and field trips

• Early release “Summer Fridays”

• Regular quirky office gatherings (“From the Garden” potlucks! Floating the Boise River!)

• Opportunity for growth

As a part of the Danone ELN team, this position is an integral part of the Happy Family business with opportunities for growth within Happy Family and other Danone subsidiaries.

To Apply: Please submit your resume and cover letter telling us about yourself and why you are a great fit for Happy

Family to: Adam Hardiman, adam@happyfamilybrands.com.

We are interested in every qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United States. However, we are not able to

sponsor visas nor offer sponsorship for H-1B visas.

Happy Family Brands values a diverse workforce. We are a women-founded company and are home to an internal

team with a focus on creating an inclusive workplace. Women, people of color, people with disabilities, and members

of the LGBTQ community are encouraged to apply.