Materials Coordinator

Over 450 of the world's most extraordinary brands are part of the Sazerac family, including BuzzBallz, Buffalo Trace, Eagle Rare, Fireball, Svedka, and more. We're proud to create spirits, cocktails, and experiences for every taste and occasion for people across the globe. Sazerac Company takes pride in fostering a vibrant culture of innovation, craftsmanship, and excellence across our distilleries and operations worldwide.

As a Materials Coordinator, you'll play a key role in keeping our manufacturing operation running efficiently by ensuring ingredients and flavors are available when production needs them. You'll coordinate material releases, maintain accurate inventory and system transactions, work with suppliers and internal partners, and proactively address material shortages, aging inventory, and potential obsolescence.

If you're highly organized, enjoy solving problems, and thrive in a fast-paced manufacturing environment where accuracy and customer service matter, we'd love to have you on our team.

What You'll Do

• Coordinate the day-to-day management and availability of ingredients, flavors, and other assigned materials to support production requirements.
• Release materials and complete accurate inventory and system transactions while monitoring stock levels against established minimum and maximum inventory requirements.
• Monitor inventory levels, aging materials, and at-risk inventory, using FEFO (First Expired, First Out) principles where applicable to minimize waste and obsolescence.
• Partner with suppliers and internal teams to address shortages, delivery concerns, material quality issues, and changing production requirements while maintaining strong supplier relationships.
• Support the identification, segregation, documentation, and resolution of nonconforming materials in accordance with established quality processes.
• Research inventory discrepancies and material availability issues and coordinate timely corrective actions to minimize production disruptions.
• Maintain accurate material records and documentation while supporting compliance with applicable company, local, state, federal, TTB, and Customs requirements.
• Provide exceptional service to production, procurement, quality, warehouse, and other internal customers by anticipating needs and responding quickly to material-related issues.
• Identify opportunities to improve inventory accuracy, material flow, supplier performance, service levels, and overall materials processes through continuous improvement.

The emphasis on accurate inventory, production availability, stock optimization, cross-functional coordination, and preventing disruptions also aligns with Sazerac's internal materials career-pathing framework in AI Slides for Ops Career Pathing.

Required

• High school diploma or GED required.
• Experience in materials, inventory, supply chain, warehouse, manufacturing, purchasing, production planning, or a related operational environment.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
• Ability to maintain accurate inventory records and complete material transactions within an inventory management or ERP system.
• Strong computer skills, including experience with Microsoft Office applications.
• Strong communication and customer service skills with the ability to work effectively across production, warehouse, procurement, quality, and supplier teams.
• Ability to identify inventory or material issues, determine appropriate next steps, and follow through to resolution.

Preferred

• Experience supporting materials or inventory within a food, beverage, consumer packaged goods (CPG), or manufacturing environment.
• Experience working with ingredients, flavors, raw materials, or other production components.
• Experience with ERP or materials management systems such as Sys21 or similar platforms.
• Knowledge of inventory management concepts including minimum/maximum inventory levels, cycle counting, inventory reconciliation, FEFO, aging inventory, and obsolescence management.
• Experience working directly with suppliers or vendors to resolve availability, delivery, or material-related issues.
• Knowledge of GMPs, food safety, quality systems, TTB requirements, or other regulated manufacturing processes.
• Experience with Lean Manufacturing, 5S, root cause analysis, Six Sigma, or other continuous improvement methodologies.

Sazerac's internal materials career-pathing materials similarly identify ERP experience, Lean/Six Sigma knowledge, quality standards, analytical problem solving, and organizational skills as important capabilities within the materials function. [AI Slides...er Pathing | PowerPoint]

Key Skills

• Integrity and Trust
• Ethics and Values
• Priority Setting
• Action Oriented
• Managing and Measuring Work
• Drive for Results
• Time Management
• Peer Relationships
• Functional / Technical Skills
• Process Management
• Customer Focus
• Perseverance
• Continuous Improvement

Success in This Role

Success as a Materials Coordinator includes:

• Meeting or exceeding assigned materials and inventory KPIs.
• Maintaining inventory within established minimum and maximum levels.
• Providing a high level of service to internal and external customers.
• Reducing aging, obsolete, and at-risk inventory through proactive materials management.
• Maintaining accurate system transactions and inventory records.
• Supporting compliance with applicable company and regulatory requirements.
• Building productive working relationships with suppliers and cross-functional partners.
• Continuously identifying opportunities to improve material availability, inventory accuracy, and process efficiency.

Physical Requirements

• Ability to work in a manufacturing and warehouse environment with exposure to production equipment, noise, and varying environmental conditions.
• Ability to stand and walk throughout the facility as needed to inspect, verify, or coordinate materials.
• Ability to safely navigate warehouse, production, and material storage areas.
• Ability to lift and move materials within established facility safety requirements.