MATERIALS PLANNING TEAM MANAGER II

McCormick & Company; Cockeysville (MD); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) and retirement plans

Health insurance

Paid time off

Career growth opportunities

Flexibility and support for diverse生活状

Job summary

McCormick & Company is seeking a Materials Planning Team Manager II for the Hunt Valley Plant to lead a focused team in a high‑performance environment. You will drive material supply through collaboration with plant planning, purchasing, logistics, and accounts payable to optimize costs and reliability.

The role emphasizes leadership, coaching, and development, with accountability for team results and continuous process improvements across multiple facilities.

Qualifications

• Minimum of a university degree. Leads a functional team within a high performance environment.
• Demonstrated leadership in a high-performance setting and ability to manage across multiple plants.
• Strong communication, coaching, and development planning for team members.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team across multiple plants for a specific functional area.
• Drive continuous improvement in processes and procedures within the function.
• Prioritize work, manage resources, and ensure safety, quality, cost, and reliability goals.
• Communicate objectives and performance metrics up to executive leadership.
• Coordinate with planning, purchasing, receiving, accounts payable, and logistics to ensure material supply.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Team management

Problem solving

Education

BSc in relevant discipline

Job description

You may know McCormick as a leader in herbs, spices, seasonings, and condiments – and we’re only getting started. At McCormick, we’re always looking for new people to bring their unique flavor to our team.

McCormick employees – all 14,000 of us across the world – are what makes this company a great place to work.

We are looking to hire anMaterials Planning Team Manager II immediately for our Hunt Valley Plant.

What We Bring To The Table:

The best people deserve the best rewards. In addition to the benefits you’d expect from a global leader (401k, health insurance, paid time off, etc.) we also offer:

• Career growth opportunities
• Flexibility and Support for Diverse Life Stages and Choices

Position Overview

Under the general direction of the Department Manager, provides leadership for a functional team within a high performance environment. Oversees the daily management of the function and drives improvement activities through the development of people and processes. Has overall accountability for the results of the team. Good understanding of procedures and concepts within own technical area and a basic knowledge in other areas. Role typically requires a university degree. Requires an understanding and ability to apply procedures and concepts of own technical area. Knowledge of other areas to the extent of understanding how they relate and interact with own area. This position is responsible for providing leadership and technical knowledge to provide continuous support of Plant production inventory material. Works with plant planning and scheduling, corporate purchasing, plant receiving, accounts payable and logistics to assure this material supply at lowest cost.

Key Responsibilities

• TEAM MANAGEMENT: Leads a team across multiple plants for a specific functional area in a manner consistent with the core beliefs and and guiding pronciples of McCormick's High Performance System. Utilizes coaching and facilitation skills to manage employee relations. Provides regular performance feedback and oversees development/training plans for individuals within the team. Actively uses performance and development tools to document and facilitate improvement/recognition discussions. Rewards and recognizes performance achievements. Removes barriers that prevent the team from achieving goals.Manage and optimize the portfolios across the facilities.
• IMPROVEMENT ACTIVITIES: Utilizes problem solving tools and methodologies to implement continually improve processes within the function across multiple facilities. Demonstrates a sense of urgency and tenacity to resolve problems and implement process improvements. Leads root cause analysis when required for failures that meet the applicable threshold. Develops and ensures all functional procedures and best practices are documented and continually improved. Interacts cross-functionally to resolve issues. Optimization of freight and inbound planning across facilities.
• MANAGE KEY RESULT AREAS (Safety, Quality, Cost, Reliability, Customer Service, etc.): Directs and supports the daily management of the team to prioritize work and achieve goals. Creates an atmosphere of 100% compliance to operational processes and procedures. Coordinates the sharing of resources to make the best use of existing skills to meet business needs. Ensures that procedures and scorecards are in place for the team.
• COMMUNICATION: Communicates effectively up, down, and across the organization. Creates a vision for the team that is in alignment with the Plant, Division, and McCormick. Communicates organizational and plant objectives, including the attainment of established scorecard metrics (safety, quality, reliability, etc.) and ensures that they are understood and linked to the team's work. Manages interactions with other areas to support total plant objectives. Conducts regular team meetings to share information and ensure two-way communication. Manage materials escalation process
• FUNCTIONAL OGSM: On an annual basis, execute specific projects and action plans (in additional to core work, above) in support of the functional OGSM
• TECHNICAL DUTIES SPECIFIC TO FUNCTION: Manages the technical aspects of the role, specific to the functional area. Lead supplier collaboration activities across the facilities.

Required Qualifications

• BSc in relevant discipline
• Individuals will generally enter this role with a combination of demonstrated technical and leadership skills equivalent to a minimum of 5 years of experience
• Sustained demonstrated leadership within a high-performance environment Demonstrated knowledge of at least one other functional area (outside of current discipline).
• Examples of how this can be achieved are through experiences such as significant project assignments, job rotation, etc. Previous work experience in other functions may also be considered, as long as the knowledge can be demonstrated in the McCormick business context Management of projects through to successful completion In-depth understanding of how own area integrates with other areas Comprehensive understanding of how multiple areas contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Basic understanding of the industry sector in which they are operating and the impact to own function.
• Full supervisory responsibilities, contributing to the motivation/development of team through professional leadership
• Full supervisory responsibility, ensuring team members are motivated and capable of delivering a high level of performance.
• Leadership includes setting objectives, coaching employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes.
• Sound and comprehensive communication and diplomacy skills are required in order to exchange complicated information, including sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Weekly communication to elevate issues to Executive Leadership Teams. Interactions regularly with external suppliers to ensure service levels, reconciliation of inventory and issue resolution.

As a general policy, McCormick does not offer employment visa sponsorships upon hire or in the future.

McCormick & Company is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Base salary compensation will be determined based on factors such as geographic location, skills, education, experience for this role, and/or internal equity of our current employees as part of any final offer. This position is also eligible to participate in McCormick’s Incentive Bonus (MIB) Plan. In addition to a competitive compensation package, permanent employees of McCormick are eligible for our extensive Total Rewards programs that include:

• Comprehensive health plans covering medical, vision, dental, life and disability benefits
• Family-friendly benefits such as paid parental leave, fertility benefits, Employee Assistance Program, and caregiver support
• Retirement and investment programs including 401(k) and profit-sharing plans

WHY WORK AT MCCORMICK?

As a McCormick employee you’ll be empowered to focus on more than your individual responsibilities. You’ll have the opportunity to be part of something bigger than yourself—to have a say in where the company is going and how it’s growing.

Between our passion for flavor, our 130-year history of leadership and integrity, the competitive and comprehensive benefits we offer, and our culture, which is built on respect and opportunities for growth, there are many reasons to join us at McCormick.