Build your career at Sazerac! With almost 400 years of rich history, Sazerac Company has thrived as an independent, American family-owned company with operations in the United States and around the world. Since the 2000s, Sazerac has averaged double digit growth every year! Sazerac Company produces and markets the most award-winning bourbons and whiskeys in the world, including Buffalo Trace, Pappy Van Winkle, Eagle Rare, Blanton’s, Traveller, and Sazerac Rye. Additionally, Sazerac owns many popular brands across a range of spirits, including Fireball, Svedka, Wheatley, BuzzBallz, Southern Comfort, Seagram’s V.O., Myers’s, Goldschläger, Parrot Bay, 99 Brand, and Platinum Vodka.
We’re proud of our award-winning culture and distilleries. Our Louisville office has been named one of the “Best Places to Work in Kentucky” four times, and our Buffalo Trace Distillery has earned the title of “world’s most award-winning distillery” through the dedication of our craftsmen for well over 200 years. Whether you’re a recent graduate or an experienced professional, Sazerac provides extraordinary opportunities for growth with competitive salaries and benefits in an exciting, entrepreneurial industry.
Support sales and operations planning process for Sazerac aged spirits. Work with sales and marketing to develop long range forecasts by brand. Create long range supply plans to support demand forecast. Work with the Sazerac CITE team, Sazerac distilleries, third party distilleries and others to ensure we have aged spirits available to support our long range supply plan. Ensure we have adequate processes and systems in place to support.
o Lead sales and operations planning process for Sazerac aged spirits. Work with sales and marketing to develop long range forecasts by brand. Create long range supply plan to support demand forecast. Work with the Sazerac CITE team, Sazerac distilleries, third party distilleries and others to ensure we have aged spirits available to support our long range supply plan. Ensure we have adequate processes and systems in place to support the demand and supply planning of aged spirits as Sazerac continues to grow.
o Provide direction on which lots of barrels to drain to support bottling plans. Ensure these bottling plans are in line with the short and long range aged spirits supply plans.
o Ensure our aged sprits demand and supply plans support our strategic growth plans for our priority brands while maintaining consistent quantity. Make sure we have barrels available for our target brands that are the right recipes and right age. Provide distillation, barrel warehousing, and draining plans to finance for budgeting and financial planning.
o Continuously improve our strategic planning process for aged spirits. Ensure we have the right tools in place to do this well and efficiently. Support the continuous improvement activities at our distilleries and warehouses by providing a seamless transition of strategic plans to tactical plans.
o Delight customers by having quality aged spirits available to exceed their expectations. Provide direction to allocation manager when a supply constraint occurs so that we can clearly communicate allocation expectations to our distributors and fans.
o As a key member of the strategic planning team, develop a working environment that attracts, retains and motivates high performing talent. Understand the elements of the culture survey and continually look to develop a culture that supports key questions. Provide guidance and direction to planning personnel and others throughout the Sazerac distilling and manufacturing network.
o Improve at least one skill per year as agreed with manager that will lead to improved job performance; perform at a level to achieve position outcomes. Drive greater PDS leverage across the planning team and the company to improve overall engagement and improvement.
o Develop a Career plan for myself that will allow me to achieve my overall career objectives. Continue to work on existing career development plans that have been previously set up. Help develop and support career plans for planning personnel throughout the Sazerac distilling and manufacturing network.
o Support our distillation and warehousing operations by ensuring the barrel model and strategic aged whiskey planning processes are providing the right information to allow our distillation and planning teams to create production plans that are executable and that balance inventory carrying cost with plant efficiencies. Work with the distillation and warehousing teams to ensure we have the appropriate distillation and warehousing capacity to efficiently support our aged sprits strategic plans.
o Support technologies that will improve our ability to track barrels, particularly the ability to assign "Future Anticipated Use" to each barrel to aid in the creation of a master barrel supply plan. Protect our priority brands by using this technology to prevent barrels from being dumped for the wrong brand.
Required:
Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Mathmatics, or related field
5+ years of experience in a fast-paced environment
Strong analytical, communication, and interpersonal skills
Ability to work independently and in cross-functional teams
Quick learner with strong systems/process aptitude
Preferred:
MBA
5 years of experience with manufacturing systems (ERP, MRP, MPS, WMS)
Additional:
Must be able to travel up to 25%
Valid passport required
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A career at Sazerac offers you the opportunity to reach your full potential as part of a creative, decisive, high-performance team. Sazerac values the needs and wants of our team members and offers inclusive benefits to attract and retain the best talent. Our culture is built upon the values of hard work, diligence and personal responsibility.
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Benefits, salary range, and programs may vary by role or location. For roles within our commercial team - the Salary range refers to base salary only and does not include car allowance, annual bonus, fuel or cell phone reimbursement. Please ask your Talent Acquisition Partner for more information about our total rewards package. Sazerac is committed to equality of opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, veteran status, age, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, physical or mental disability or any other legally protected status.
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