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
https://maps.app.goo.gl/gW3zY6ieis7Jvq9M7
📢 Ready to level up your impact with Birdman?
Apply now and help shape the future of plant-based innovation🦅💻📊
