Materials Specialist - Supply Chain

About the role

Kraft Heinz is looking for a Materials Specialist to join its Supply Chain team in Costa Rica. The role ensures the right materials are available in the right quantity and at the right time to support production, while keeping inventory healthy and supporting service, cost and working capital goals. It covers materials planning, inventory management, supplier coordination, MRP execution and production continuity.

Key responsibilities

• Plan and ensure raw and packaging materials are available for internal and external manufacturing.
• Create and manage purchase orders, monitor deliveries and supplier commitments.
• Monitor material requirements through MRP and investigate discrepancies in master data, BOMs, calendars, lead times and planning parameters.
• Manage daily deliveries against production needs, supplier availability and warehouse capacity.
• Maintain and optimise inventory and stock policies, and identify shortages, excess stock and obsolete materials.
• Develop supply scenarios and contingency plans for supplier delays, demand changes and production interruptions.
• Analyse inventory performance, consumption versus plan and lead-time deviations.
• Partner with Procurement on MOQs, service levels and inventory optimisation.
• Support materials and SKU master data in SAP, and take part in innovation and value engineering projects.
• Translate long-term production plans into material requirements and inventory projections, and coordinate with suppliers on service levels and alternative sourcing.
• Support continuous improvement through automation, data cleansing, planning parameter optimisation and alerts, and back up Production Supply Planning when needed.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain, Logistics, Business or a related field.
• About 2-4 years of experience in materials planning, supply planning, inventory management, procurement planning or a similar supply chain role.
• Experience with MRP and SAP; SAP MDG is a plus.
• Knowledge of inventory management, production planning, stock policies and materials availability.
• Intermediate Excel; Power BI, Tableau or other BI tools are a plus.
• Spanish and English proficiency for a regional environment.

Required skills

• MRP and SAP
• Excel (intermediate)
• BI tools such as Power BI or Tableau (a plus)