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Manager, CF Inventory Planning

Ball Corporation - Westminster, CO 80021

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$86,500 - $132,000 a year

Full Job Description

Ball Corporation manufactures aluminum packaging for beverage, personal care and household products, and provides aerospace and other technologies for commercial and government customers. We have been in business for over 140 years and is leading the charge in creating solutions that keep our planet healthy. Ball Corp has been nationally recognized as a leading company in the creation of sustainable products (Fast Company World Changing Ideas award) as well as one of America's Best Employers for Diversity (Forbes Magazine.) Join our team of over 18,000 people worldwide in our quest to make the world a cleaner and healthier place. BE BIGGER THAN YOURSELF. BE UNSTOPPABLE. BE AN INSPIRATION. JOIN US IN MAKING THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE.

Primary Purpose of Position:

The IBP Inventory Manager is responsible for leading all inventory planning efforts in line with IBP requirements (both process and function), while driving insights and providing solutions. The role is responsible for providing assistance in the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process, working with the team to help drive improvements.

Essential Functions:

Lead the development, roll-up and communication of inventory planning activities, including global brokered-inventory being sure to work cross-functionally with internal and external business partners to align on key demand/supply variables.

• Responsible for assistance in managing all NCA global capacity and demand need activities.
• Create, manage, and communicate customer-level inventory plans in line with production and demand assumptions to all appropriate stakeholders
• Identify areas for inventory planning and reporting improvements and liaise with stakeholders to drive optimization
• Working closely with the supply and demand planning teams, and the customer fulfilment teams centrally and regionally to execute the process. This includes managing ad hoc projects and working with external business partners
• Manage process to ensure that all inventory plans are socialized downstream to appropriate stakeholders (i.e. sourcing, logistics)
• Lead efforts on regular review of Days of Inventory targets by size/plant to ensure inventory efficiency goals are being met while still meeting service levels required.
• Work with each process step (NPI/Demand/Supply/Reconciliation/MBR) lead identifying areas for improvement and providing inventory support:
• Seek, provide and present relevant data in an impactful way to support key decisions
• Managing ad hoc projects and working with external business partners
• Monitoring, reporting and orchestrating actions to address critical IBP Inventory KPIs – including Slow Non-Moving Inventory
• Build and develop strong relationships and interactions with all internal business partners and external customers

Position Requirements:

Broad training in a related field usually acquired through college or graduate degree level education or work-related experience

• 5 year minimum related experience
• Working knowledge of the following areas: JD Edwards, Oracle Value Chain Planning, APICS Production and Inventory planning methodologies, Microsoft Office

Demonstrated Ball Leadership Skills:

Inspire

• Demonstrates Self-Awareness: Uses a combination of feedback and self-reflection to gain productive insight into personal strengths and weaknesses

• Connect

• Instills Trust: Gains the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity and authenticity
• Interpersonal Intelligence: Relates openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people

Achieve:

• Demonstrated Results: Consistently achieves results even under tough circumstances

Relocation may be available for this position.

Compensation & Benefits:

• Hiring Salary Range: $ 86,500 - 132,000 (Salary to be determined by the applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.)
• Other Compensation: This role will be eligible to participate in the annual incentive compensation plan.
• Regular Full-Time Salaried and Hourly positions: Ball includes a comprehensive benefits structure, click here for more info https://www.ball.com/us_benefits

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