Analyst Materials Planner

Why Hershey:
At The Hershey Company, our culture is rooted in purpose and inspired by Milton Hershey’s enduring vision that business should create opportunity for others. Through our commitment to corporate philanthropy, we create positive impact by supporting communities, helping children thrive, and operating as a business for good. This includes our deep and long standing partnership with Milt
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on Hershey School, where we invest in education, workforce readiness, and hands on engagement to help students succeed beyond the classroom. Supported by strategic grantmaking, product donations, cross brand collaboration, and strong employee volunteerism, Hershey offers a place to work where making a difference—locally and globally—is part of how we do business every day.
Job Location: Memphis, TN
About The Hershey Company
The Hershey Company (NYSE: HSY) is an industry-leading snacks company known for making more moments of goodness through its iconic brands. With a strong portfolio across chocolate, confectionery, and salty snacks, Hershey delights consumers every day. Our beloved brands include Hershey’s, Reese’s, KitKat®, Dots Pretzels, Lesser Evil, Jolly Rancher, Twizzlers, Ice Breakers, and more.
At Hershey, we are committed to making a meaningful difference in the communities where we live, work, and do business. This commitment originated with our founder, Milton Hershey, and continues to shape who we are today.
Guided by our employee value proposition, Lead Today. Create Tomorrow, we empower our people to drive impact now while shaping what comes next. Our One Hershey mindset brings teams together across functions, geographies, and businesses, enabling us to operate with speed, collaboration, and shared purpose.
The Hershey Company is proud to be recognized as a top employer in the United States, reflecting our commitment to our people, culture, and purpose.
How will you fit in the big picture?
The Analyst Materials Planner supports the Memphis plant by executing assigned planning tasks, maintaining accurate planning data, and helping ensure the right raw and packaging materials are available to support production needs. This role partners with planning, suppliers, purchasing, transportation, and plant teams to support operational continuity in a high-speed, complex manufacturing environment at Hershey, the Sweetest Place on Earth.
What will you do?
• Execute assigned supply planning and materials planning activities accurately and on time, following established planning standards and procedures.
• Monitor raw and packaging material requirements, inventory levels, lead times, and shelf life to help ensure material availability for production schedules.
• Maintain planning data, trackers, reports, MRP parameters, and SAP material master information to support reliable planning outputs.
• Communicate material needs, delivery timing, schedule changes, and supply issues with suppliers and internal partners, escalating exceptions when needed.
• Support inventory performance by helping identify opportunities to reduce shortages, improve turns, minimize obsolescence, and support continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with Production Scheduling, Purchasing, S&OP, Quality, Operations, Accounting, Maintenance, and Packaging Engineering to support new or changed materials and production requirements.
Minimum Education & Requirements
Experience:
• 1+ years of relevant experience in supply planning, materials planning, inventory management, production planning, plant purchasing, logistics, or a related area.
• Knowledge of inventory management, supply chain principles, MRP, and planning processes.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, organizational, and attention-to-detail skills.
• SAP experience in MRP, scheduling, inventory management, master data, warehouse management, or production control preferred.
• APICS, CPIM, purchasing, or production planning certification a plus.
Education:
• Bachelor's degree preferred.
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