Materials Scheduler & Analyst – Bulk Liquids & Ingredients

Diageo · Montgomery, Alabama · $67,725 to $112,875 (annual) Diageo is seeking a Materials Scheduler & Analyst – Bulk Liquids & Ingredients to join their team in Montgomery, Alabama. The successful candidate will be responsible for translating supply requirements into executable material schedules across Diageo's North America supply network, with a focus on bulk liquids, ingredients, and other critical production inputs. Key Responsibilities: Material scheduling & execution: Translate production plans, forecasts, and replenishment requirements into executable schedules for bulk liquids, ingredients, and assigned materials. Maintain material requirements and supply signals in SAP and OMP, ensuring they accurately reflect the latest production plan. Review material availability against planned production and proactively identify shortages, excesses, timing gaps, and other constraints. Expedite, defer, or reschedule material movements to maintain supply continuity while managing inventory appropriately. Monitor purchase orders, stock transfer orders, planned/process orders, and other supply elements, driving exceptions through resolution. Coordinate inter-site material movements, ensuring requirements are aligned across sending and receiving locations. Bulk Liquids & Ingredient Planning: Maintain short- and medium-term visibility of bulk liquid and ingredient requirements across assigned locations. Translate finished goods production requirements into corresponding bulk liquid and ingredient demand. Coordinate with liquid planning, processing, manufacturing, and logistics teams to confirm availability and timing. Support monthly/quarterly Bulk Best Plan processes, consolidating requirements, identifying gaps, and ensuring future demand is appropriately represented in planning systems. Identify potential material availability, lead-time, transportation, tank-capacity, aging, or receiving constraints that could affect production. Inventory & Exception Management: Monitor inventory, projected coverage, and consumption against plan and identify potential shortages, excesses, or abnormal movements. Investigate material discrepancies through SAP transactions, orders, receipts, issues, transfers, and inventory records. Partner with Manufacturing, Warehouse, and Materials teams to resolve transactional or physical inventory discrepancies affecting planning. Use MRP and planning-system exceptions to prioritize actions and distinguish genuine supply constraints from planning, master-data, or inventory-record issues. Support inventory health by balancing material availability with excess, aging, and obsolescence risk. Analytics, Digital & Continuous Improvement: Analyze demand, supply, inventory, and material movements to identify emerging risks and opportunities. Develop exception reporting and analytical tools to improve visibility of shortages, late receipts, supply gaps, and inventory risks. Develop and maintain Power BI dashboards and digital planning solutions that convert complex planning and operational data into actionable insights. Use Power Query, data modeling, Excel, and automation to simplify reporting, improve data quality, and reduce manual planning activity. Requirements: Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Engineering, Business, Logistics, or a related discipline preferred; equivalent relevant experience will also be considered. Experience in materials planning, supply planning, production scheduling, inventory management, logistics, or manufacturing operations. Demonstrated hands-on experience with SAP MRP and materials planning, including material requirements, inventory, purchase orders, stock transfer orders, planned/process orders, and exception management. Strong analytical capability and experience working with complex planning, inventory, and production data. Strong Excel capability; experience developing Power BI or comparable business-intelligence solutions strongly preferred.