Senior Planner

USA021 West Publishing Corporation; Eagan (MN); On-site; USD 80,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Signing bonus

Annual Bonus

Job summary

Thomson Reuters seeks an experienced Senior Planner to join our production planning team in Eagan, Minnesota. You will identify material and process needs, forecast in SAP, and release production orders to keep operations efficient and accurate.

The role offers a signing bonus for external hires and a path for growth within a global information services company with a strong focus on process improvement and cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent and related field experience.
• Proficient in Microsoft applications.
• Knowledge of material requirements planning for a broad group of products.
• High level of proficiency in SAP.

Responsibilities

• Identify materials and process requirements for finished goods production orders.
• Determine lot sizes for general shipment and replenishment orders.
• Create and release production orders with complete details for accurate production.
• Monitor production orders to ensure quality and optimal processing.
• Forecast products in SAP and input product specifications into SAP.
• Maintain material master data and provide binders and tab specifications.
• Collaborate with production and internal departments.
• Build relationships with internal and external customers and monitor components.
• Provide quotes and may perform additional duties for the business.

Skills

Material requirements planning

SAP proficiency

Microsoft applications

Forecasting

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

SAP

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Senior Planner

Senior Planner We are looking for an experienced Senior Production Planner to join our printing plant team in Eagan, Minnesota. As a Senior Planner, you will be responsible for planning the materials and production processes required for production orders for a broad group of products. For this role, you would also be eligible for a $2,500 signing bonus (only for external candidates) upon being in the role for 90 days.

About the Role

• Identifying materials and process requirements for finished good production orders.
• Determining lot sizes for general shipment and replenishment orders.
• Creating and releasing production orders to communicate all details necessary to ensure accurate production.
• Monitoring production orders through planning process to ensure quality and determining optimal processing of production orders.
• Forecasting products in SAP and developing/collecting product specifications for input into SAP.
• Maintaining material master data and scheduling/providing binder and tab specifications.
• Collaborating with production and/or other internal departments.
• Proactively building relationships with internal and external customers and monitoring all product components.
• Serving as a resource to the Material Req Planner 1 and leading special projects to improve processes.
• Providing quotes.and may perform MCS Account Representative 2 duties as assigned by the business.
• Providing backup support to Account Representatives and may perform system testing.
• Supporting other production needs as requested (e.g., flex labor needs).

About You

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent and some work experience in a related field
• Proficient in Microsoft applications
• Knowledge of material requirements planning for a broad group of products
• High level of proficiency in SAP
• Mathematical, analytical and logic skills #LI-CB1

What’s in it For You?

Compensation

• 2nd shift differential of $4.00 per hour, 3rd shift differential of $5.00 per hour, and a bonus plan.
• Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance.

Flexibility & Work-Life Balance

• Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset.
• This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.

Career Development and Growth

• By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions.
• Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
• We provide on-the-job coaching & learning, leadership capability development, Harvard Management Courses, key talent programs.

Industry Competitive Benefits

• We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include 3 weeks vacation, 10 sick days, 9 company holidays, 3 floating days, uniform and laundry service, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee; optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee; Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts; fitness reimbursement; access to Employee Assistance Program; Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee; access to 529 Plan; commuter benefits; Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance; Tuition Reimbursement; and access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

Culture

• Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.
• We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.

Social Impact

• Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute.
• We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.

Making a Real-World Impact

• We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency.
• Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

Eligibility and EEO

To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status or any other protected classification under applicable law.

Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law. More information on requesting an accommodation here.

Company Overview

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news. We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

More information about Thomson Reuters can be found on thomsonreuters.com.

As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals.