Position Summary

Crescent Materials Planning Administrator provides administrative support for the Planning and Operations teams including procurement, RFQ's, maintaining vendor relationships, production material tracking, and coordinating with Crescent Display Business Managers. The Project Administrator delivers on the day- to-day commitments to our Customer, our Company and our People.

The business will operate as outlined in the Crescent Way- 3 P's:

• Purpose
• Process
• People

While building on our culture of:

• Doing it Right
• Doing it Safe
• Doing it Well

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Safety

• Read and understand the Crescent Safety Playbook – Doing it Safe
• Contribute to a Work Environment which is safe and maintained where our people can safely grow and develop
• Engage fellow team members to participate in Safety Observations to continually seek out all forms of risk

People

• Maintain a good working relationship with customers and suppliers responding to all inquiries/complaints in a courteous and timely manner
• Work proactively and professionally alongside Crescent and Talent Partner team members to ensure we are Doing it Right, Safe and Well
• Recognize People to ensure they feel like a valuable member of the team
• Alerts the Customer Relationship Manager on issues as they arise
• Acts as point of contact for vendors and suppliers

Productivity

• Continuously review and prioritize work activities to meet changing customer and operational needs
• Coordinate daily activities related to the procurement of all production materials and operational supplies
• Contribute as a resource member of the planning team, supporting the operation as directed
• Breaks down project's final deliverables into tasks and timeframes
• Attends routine meetings and records decisions (e.g. next steps, workflows, assigned tasks )
• Tracking expenses and predicting future costs

Quality

• Maintain a continuously reconciled Site Checkbook and process purchase requests, invoices to maintain transparency and ease of understanding to site leadership and corporate finance people
• Data Integrity - Ensure the complete integrity and timeliness of all data in our Company and Customer's operating systems. (Pack Manager / Kronos / Quick Base / Great Plains / Fiori).
• Offers suggestions to improve efficiencies
• Ensure deadlines and compliance requirements are met, access project risks and progress

Customer Value

• Understand the required standards for each customer job/project/material.
• Report well documented and accurate metrics, ensuring the complete integrity of all data
• Work with all required areas to find positive solutions to all issues
• Foster Crescent excellence by cultivating teamwork
• Effectively communicate directly to customers, supply chain partners and suppliers all aspects of placing orders and fulfillment, and inventory issues
• Maintain a good working relationship with customers, supply chain partners and suppliers
• Helps coordinate quality controls ensuring deliverables meet client demands

Cultural Competencies

Do It Right

Doing what is right for our Customers, doing what is right for our Company and doing what is right for our People. Continually improving the quality of our product and services. Monitoring and measuring every key ingredient which could negatively impact our quality. Doing it Right ensures we will always be a Premier Service Provider.

• Identifier and champion of change opportunities, adept at countering resistance to change and an advocate for continuous improvement
• Maintain a positive, solution-based attitude while forging relationships with team members

Do It Safe

Providing a safe environment and supporting our people to reach their highest potential. A safe environment where all forms of risk are assessed and controlled. A safe environment open to new ideas, where our people's opinions and overall well-being count. A diverse environment where everyone fits and can be successful.

• Self-assured
• Able communicator—good clarity, balanced talker and listener
• Patient
• Has energy and enthusiasm
• Maintains self-accountability

Do It Well

Optimizing all our resources to efficiently and effectively perform all tasks well. Our overall productivity as a company is a reflection of the thousands of activities performed well each and every day by everyone. At Crescent, our ability to Do it Well is a real source of pride valued by our customers.

• Good work ethic, task focused and willing to extend extra effort
• Able to follow structure where it exists
• Resilient—able to deal with the unexpected, not easily flustered
• Has sense of urgency
• Follows up to ensure quality task completion

Work Environment / Physical Demands

• Fast paced environment, requiring Project Administrators to adapt to continuous changes in schedules, volumes, tasks and expectations.
• Ability to frequently sit, stand, walk, reach with hands and arm's length, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, and crouch
• Ability to regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, occasionally lift and/or move up to 40 pounds with a team lift
• Ability to do repetitive motions for several hours
• Walk on concrete floors for extended periods while in the co-packaging facility
• Ability to work and operate in a non-climate-controlled environment
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision requirements due to computer work
• Moderate to significant noise (i.e., phone, and printers, warehouse traffic).

Knowledge, Skills, & Capability

• The ability to read instructions and perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and understand percentages.
• Self-driven to continually monitor the production line and make the decision necessary to improve the work flow and output.
• The ability to communicate with facts, to balance talking with listening, to use communication to inspire People to achieve results.
• Being self-motivated and motived by achieving set targets while continually seeking out opportunities to eliminate waste. Ability to accept and embrace change.
• Determining how information fits together and how the information relates to production efficiency.
• The ability to break a problem down into steps and produce a logical timely solution.
• The ability to manage one's time effectively, schedule and prioritize tasks in accordance with the demands of the day

Systems Usage

• Customer Systems
• Pack Manager
• QuickBase
• Microsoft Office Suite
• Copiers/Printers/Faxes
• Great Plains

Performance Metrics and Trends

• Safety
• People
• Productivity
• Quality
• Customer Value
• Financial

Qualifications

• GED or its equivalent
• Minimum two or more years of relevant experience in a similar
• Experience providing operational support experience of delivering customer services in an efficient and effective
• Strong math
• Experience with purchase requests and product
• Strong communication skills
• Strong Problem-solving skills with a keen eye for details
• Experience with Microsoft Office Suite. Ability to pass a basic MS Excel Skills
• Ability to read, write, speak, and comprehend
• Ability to understand, record, and communicate material and product

Preferred Qualifications

• Highly organized and motivated to meet deadlines
• Experience with working in a production or manufacturing office environment
• Experience driving quality results in multi-functioning areas strongly desired
• Experience with Project management software programs and processes
• Experience with basic accounting practices
• Experience with managing vendors

We will absolutely know the Project Administrator is successful if they can:

• Accurately manage the Site Checkbook Reconciliation Process, including submitting purchase orders, processing invoices and soliciting quotes from vendors
• Successfully maintain relationships with Crescent's people as well as our customer, vendors, partners and collaborators
• Learns to back-up the Production Planner as needed

By completing this application, you are acknowledging the following:

• I am at least 18 years of age of older
• I can perform the essential functions of this position, with or without accommodation
• I am a US Citizen or otherwise authorized to work in the US on an unrestricted basis

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