Responsible for considering all supply and demand elements in terms of both timing and quantities to assure optimal inventory levels of field-produce, internally processed, and packaged seed products which meet quality standards.

1. Oversee Seed Production Planning, including:

• Maintain crop production calendar.
• Assist Forecasting team to assure appropriate products are forecasted at the proper time.
• Review forecasts for reasonableness.
• Assure material master data is maintained for planning to function properly.
• Assure existing inventory is classified correctly for requirements to be determined.
• Initiate and maintain purchase orders to own production farms or third party producers.
• Ongoing communication regarding upcoming availability

2. Oversee Seed Processing Planning, including:

• Daily monitoring of seed in various forms needs driven by either forecasts or customer orders.
• Monitor seed quality characteristics and take necessary actions.
• Work with the Premier Lab and the Seed Distribution Center to manage work flows.
• Ongoing communication regarding upcoming availability.
• Evaluate seed lots for rework or discard.

3. Oversee Seed Packaging Planning, including:

• Packaging requirements to support forecasts and sales orders
• Repackaging requirement to balance inventory
  • Monitor overall inventory levels and provide periodic reporting.
  • Provide periodic reporting to production farms for delivery and quality metrics.
  • Assure proper classification of inventory.
  • Ongoing evaluation of increased or decreased needs relative to plan.
  • Serve as “SAP Power User” for PanAmerican Seed, a liaison between users and the Ball IT department.

Requirements:

• Highly analytical with attention to detail.
• Travel to international production farms 1-3 X per year.

Required Skills & Experience

• BS/BA in business, horticulture or agriculture.
• Five years’ experience in production planning.
• Experience with Materials Resource Planning (MRP).
• Experience using SAP (preferred).
• Excellent Excel skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Physical Requirements

• Mostly work in an office setting with occasional visits to production farms.

Interested Candidates:
Mail your resume to:

Ball Horticultural Company
622 Town Road
West Chicago, IL 60185
Human Resources Dept.
Attn: Kristy Puma

or email your resume to: careers@ballhort.com