Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Tactical Planning & Scenario Leadership – 35%
- Lead the development and refinement of tactical planning scenarios, ensuring outputs are accurate, feasible, and aligned with business strategy
- Own complex scenario modeling, including tradeoff analysis across supply, inventory, capacity, and service
- Validate and challenge planning assumptions to improve plan reliability and decision quality
- Translate strategic direction into optimized tactical plans that balance financial, operational, and service objectives
Milk Supply & Network Optimization – 40%
- Conduct advanced analysis of regional utilization, and milk solids balancing across the planning horizon
- Provide recommendations on supply allocation, surplus utilization, and network optimization opportunities
- Identify risks and constraints within supply, inventory, and capacity, and develop mitigation scenarios
Systems Expertise & Model Management – 10%
- Serve as a subject matter expert in SAP IBP tactical planning models, including solver behavior, constraints, and network design
- Lead model tuning, scenario validation, and system troubleshooting for complex planning challenges
- Oversee master data integrity (BOMs, capacities, costs, transport lanes, inventory policies) and ensure alignment with planning objectives
- Partner with IT and cross-functional teams to enhance system capabilities and reporting tools
Decision Support & Cross-Functional Alignment – 10%
-Synthesize complex data into clear insights, scenarios, and recommendations for leadership decision-making
- Partner with Dairy Pools, Demand Planning, Supply Chain Operations, Finance, Marketing, and Sales to align plans and assumptions
- Evaluate impacts of proposed changes (network, production, demand shifts) and recommend best-course actions
- Support development of the annual production budget and long-range planning scenarios

Additional Duties and Responsibilities - 5%

• Lead or support high-impact analytical projects and cross-functional initiatives
• Support strategic supply chain studies and scenario modeling efforts
• Take on additional responsibilities as assigned

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Education & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in business, Agribusiness, Dairy Science, Mathematics, Supply Chain, or related field preferred
- 7–10 years of experience in supply planning, S&OP, or tactical planning
- Strong experience with SAP and SAP IBP required
- Supply Chain Management certification is a plus (APICS, CSCMP, IBF, etc.)
Technical & Analytical Skills
- Advanced expertise in SAP IBP modeling, including solver behavior and constraint-based optimization
- Deep understanding of dairy supply chain dynamics, including milk components and seasonal variability
- Strong data analysis, modeling, and scenario-building skills
- Ability to troubleshoot complex system and data issues
Soft Skills
- Demonstrated ability to lead through influence without direct authority
- Strong communication skills, with ability to translate complex analysis into business insights
- Proven ability to guide others, improve work quality, and drive aligned outcomes
- Systems thinker with strong business acumen

Base salary/hourly wage range: $80.641.60 per year - $100,817.60 per year
This salary wage range is exclusive of fringe benefits. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary bonuses. If you are hired at CROPP, your final base salary wage compensation will be determined based on factors such as skills, education, and/or experience. Additionally, we believe in the importance of pay equity and consider the internal equity of our current team members as a part of any final offer. Please keep in mind that entry-level candidates to this role should expect to be at the lower end of the salary wage range and hiring at the maximum of the salary wage range is not typical.

Benefits
We believe when our people are strong, our mission is strong. Therefore, we offer a comprehensive and holistic Total Rewards package meant to strengthen employees’ and their family's total wellbeing. Here are some of the great benefits offered: