Wave Planner
Hostess Brands, LLC

Company Overview

Hostess Brands, LLC, is a large packaged food company focused on developing, manufacturing, marketing, selling and distributing fresh baked sweet goods in the United States such as Ding Dongs®, Ho Hos®, Donettes® and Fruit Pies, in addition to Twinkies®, CupCakes, Voortman's Cookies and Wafers.
Job Overview

The Wave Planner will be responsible for ensuring the daily workload is released in accordance with company standards while providing analysis to impact business decisions. This position will work to coordinate the daily workload and plan work release to the floor.
Responsibilities

• Compile data for daily reports and present in a timely manner to all stakeholders.
• Ability to prioritize and organize workload.
• Self-motivated and reliable; works well with others or individually on tasks.
• Present effectively with stakeholders and business partners on workflow, trends, and labor capacity.
• Lead/assist in communicating outbound workload with business partners to ensure customer service standards are met.
• Own and lead daily plan.
• SAP experience (EWM, ECC preferred).
• Excellent computer skills in Microsoft Office, (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Visio).
• Strong attention to detail.
• Must be flexible and work well in a fast-paced environment.
• Take the initiative to identify, lead, and establish continuous improvement practices that improve the performance of outbound operations.
• Accurately maintain and enter all necessary data tasks for items in the workflow system and follow up on items that are not progressing through the workflow.
• Create visual trends and define countermeasures for deficiencies in outbound plan.
• Collecting and interpreting data while analyzing results using statistical techniques.
• Report results back to the relevant members of the business.
• Work alongside all teams within the business to establish improvement projects.

• Associate degree or Vocational education is preferred
• 1-2 years of previous wave planner or production planner experience required
• Analytical and distribution background required
• Strong computer skills