# Materials Planner Analyst

**Company:** [Birdman](null/companies/bw4i2TKZwgpkQ22V4tcp1v.md)
**Location:** Zapopan, Mexico
**Workplace:** on site
**Employment type:** Full-time
**Department:** Supply Chain

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## Description

Are you ready to take flight and be part of an amazing team in Birdman? 🌱🚀🦅  

**About the Company**

Birdman has achieved an extraordinary 100% year-over-year growth for the past 7 years, making us a leader in the industry. Our mission is to make healthy, sustainable, and cruelty-free lifestyles accessible to all through our delicious and nutritious products. As the global plant-based food revolution gains momentum, we are looking for a dynamic **Material Planner** to join our exceptional team and contribute to building the next Mexican Unicorn!  

**🎯 The Role:**

We are strengthening our Supply Chain planning capabilities to support continued growth, production scalability, and international expansion, including the U.S. market. We are looking for a Materials Planner who can ensure the timely availability of raw materials and packaging supplies, balancing demand requirements with inventory policies and supplier performance. This role will play a key part in enabling reliable production execution, optimizing material inventories, and improving planning discipline across the supply chain.

**🧩 Responsibilities:**

-   Analyze inventory levels, historical consumption, and sales forecasts to calculate material requirements.
-   Ensure the availability of raw materials and inputs to support weekly and monthly production plans.
-   Develop and maintain material replenishment plans aligned with inventory policies and service level targets.
-   Determine optimal purchasing quantities considering lead times, MOQ, safety stock, and demand variability.
-   Coordinate closely with suppliers to ensure on-time delivery and proactively manage delays or shortages.
-   Monitor slow-moving, excess, or expiring materials and execute mitigation actions to reduce risk and cost.
-   Generate daily and weekly inventory and materials planning reports, highlighting shortages, overstock, and key KPIs.
-   Update supply plans based on production capacity changes, shifting priorities, and evolving business needs.
-   Support cross-border supply planning activities for U.S. operations, ensuring material readiness and continuity.
-   Collaborate with Production, Procurement, and Supply Chain teams to improve planning processes and execution.

## Requirements

💼**Professional Experience & Requirements**

-   Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Business Administration, Supply Chain, or a related field.
-   2 years of experience in materials planning, demand analysis, or supply chain operations.
-   Strong numerical and analytical skills with attention to detail.
-   Advanced Excel proficiency.
-   Experience working with ERP systems (MRP modules preferred).
-   Intermediate to advanced English proficiency.
-   Ability to work in a fast-changing environment with strong organizational skills.

Plus points if:

-   Experience in manufacturing environments with complex BOM structures and multi-SKU production.
-   Familiarity with MRP logic, safety stock calculations, and service level planning.
-   Experience supporting U.S. supply operations or cross-border material flows.
-   Knowledge of inventory KPIs such as material availability, shortage rate, obsolescence, and turns.
-   Exposure to supplier performance management and lead time optimization.
-   Experience with continuous improvement initiatives in planning or inventory control.
-   Proficiency in planning tools or reporting platforms (Power BI is a plus).

## Benefits

This position is located at:

Parque San Jose del Astillero 2, Zapopan

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📢 Ready to level up your impact with Birdman?

  
Apply now and help shape the future of plant-based innovation🦅💻📊