Integrated Planning Manager II

Position Overview:

The Integrated Planning Manager is responsible for leading shortterm execution of the integrated SIOP and monthly production plan across the Foremost Farms network. This role owns daily and nearterm (7-10 day) production scheduling, milk planning, and fluid byproduct allocation, ensuring customer demand, milk availability, plant capacity, finished goods inventory, and operational constraints are aligned in real time.

Serving as the primary bridge between longterm optimization and shortterm execution, this position brings the plan of record to life by translating monthly SIOP and mass balance assumptions into disciplined daily actions. The role drives execution clarity, reduces operational noise, and strengthens the feedback loop from shortterm realities back into SIOP governance.

By setting shortterm execution strategy, aligning crossfunctional stakeholders, and enforcing execution discipline, this position ensures longterm SIOP profitability objectives, service commitments, and cooperative strategy remain on track-while identifying and escalating when shortterm conditions, risks, or volatility materially change underlying planning assumptions and require replanning.

Key Responsibilities:

Short-Term Production & Milk Execution Leadership

• Lead daily and near-term (7-10 day) execution of cheese and butter production schedules, milk planning, by-product allocation and finished good inventory strategies across the network, ensuring alignment with customer orders, plant capacity and milk availability

• Ensure short-term production schedules are driven by actual open customer orders, while using the monthly production plan to establish directional expectations for the subsequent 2-4 week horizon.

• Oversee real-time execution adjustments related to unplanned downtime, milk supply variability, quality or yield impacts and short-term customer demand volatility.

• Coordinate closely with plant operations, dispatch, and logistics teams to execute timely movement of milk, components and finished goods while minimizing operations disruption.

Execution Discipline & Long-Term SIOP Optimization Alignment

• Serve as the primary execution-level escalation point when short-term production scheduling or milk balancing constraints cannot be resolved through daily actions alone, ensuring structural issues are elevated rather than worked around.

• Enforce clear execution-to-planning boundaries by operating within SIOP and monthly mass balance guardrails and partnering with the Director of Dairy Analytics & Planning to communicate execution-level risks, trade-offs, and emerging constraints that may require re-planning.

• Strengthen the feedback loop from short-term execution into SIOP by clearly articulating what changed, why it changed, and whether underlying planning assumptions remain valid, enabling timely and informed decision-making.

• Ensure short-term execution decisions support long-term SIOP optimization objectives, including margin, transportation costs, inventory positioning and distressed produce exposure, while incorporating foundational awareness of dairy markets, milk pricing and Federal Milk Marketing Order mechanics and escalating when execution actions materially diverge from market or SIOP-driven profitability assumptions.

People Leadership & Team Development

• Directly manage and develop production scheduling and milk planning leaders, ensuring clear expectations around decision-making, escalation and cross-functional collaboration.

• Build execution capability by coaching teams to move beyond firefighting toward root-cause identification and recognition or recurring, structural issues.

• Establish and maintain appropriate on-call and after-hours coverage to ensure continuity of critical operations during disruptions.

• Foster a culture of accountability, discipline and continuous improvement within short-term planning and execution teams.

Process Improvement & Execution Enablement

• Lead efforts to simplify and rationalize execution-level planning tools, acknowledging the current reliance on numerous manual and disconnected spreadsheets.

• Drive gradual progression toward fewer, clearer tools that improve visibility into what changed versus the plan and why execution decisions were made.

• Improve transparency and consistency in execution reporting to reduce manual rework and confusion during periods of disruption.

• Partner with analytics and planning teams to enhance execution storytelling and enable clearer communication of constraints, trade-offs, and decisions to stakeholders.

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Communication

• Act as the primary short-term planning execution partner to Operations, Supply Chain, SIOP & Analytics, Milk Supply and Commercial teams.

• Communicate execution risks, capacity constraints and mitigation actions clearly to support timely decisions-making during volatile conditions.

• Align day-to-day execution priorities with broader cooperative objectives related to service, profitability and member value.

• Support consistent execution standards and planning governance across plants and functions within the cooperative.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Business, Agriculture, or related field.

• 5+ years of experience in supply chain planning, dairy operations, milk procurement, or logistics.

• Prior experience leading or mentoring teams.

• Strong analytical, problemsolving, and decisionmaking skills.

• Ability to manage complexity, ambiguity, and timesensitive decisions in a fastpaced environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in dairy, food manufacturing, or agricultural cooperatives.

• Advanced understanding of S&OP, SIOP, IBP, and mass balance concepts.

• Experience leading enterpriselevel planning or network optimization initiatives.

• Working knowledge of ERP, MRP, planning, and transportation management systems.

• MBA or advanced degree.

Physical Setting:

• Hybrid position with flexibility to work from home or corporate office.

• Availability outside of normal working hours to support critical supply chain events as required.

Benefits:

At Foremost Farms, we believe that you and your family matter most. That's why we're proud to offer one of the most comprehensive and competitive benefits packages in the area - designed to support your health, financial security, and work-life balance.

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance - Flexible coverage with options to meet the needs of you and your family
• 401(k) Retirement Plan - 100% company match on up to 8% of your contributions
• Generous Paid Time Off - Start with 200 hours of PTO (pro-rated for first year)
• 10 Paid Holidays - Enjoy time to rest and recharge
• Paid Parental Leave - 6 weeks fully paid
• Health Savings Account (HSA) - when you elect the high-deductible health plan
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) - Save for medical and dependent care expenses
• Life and Disability Insurance - Financial protection for you and your loved ones
• Daily Pay Option - Access your earnings when you need them
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) - Free, confidential support for life's challenges
• Referral Program - Earn rewards for bringing great people to our team

• Career Growth Opportunities - Advance your skills and your career with us

Don't meet every single requirement? At Foremost Farms we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.