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Inventory Planner

Georgia Pacific
life insurance, parental leave
United States, Georgia, Atlanta
133 Peachtree Street Northeast (Show on map)
Dec 17, 2025
Your Job Georgia-Pacific Packaging is seeking an Inventory Planner to ensure timely replenishment of containerboard roll stock SKUs in optimal quantities across our plants. This role is critical in maintaining a consistent flow of materials from containerboard mills to corrugated plants, enabling the right SKU mix to be available when needed. The Inventory Planner combines supply chain management, data analysis, and relationship building to optimize inventory and support efficient plant operations. This is a hybrid position based at GP Center in downtown Atlanta, GA. What You Will Do Be a team player and a champion of team morale. Manage a portfolio of GP Corrugated plants to plan containerboard roll stock inventory for production. Perform weekly analysis of SKU consumption each week, and react to spikes and drops in consumption within the mill schedules. Perform analysis of forecasting practices and challenging the status quo on forecasts. Perform analysis of internal and external production schedules with containerboard suppliers. Build strong relationships with stakeholders in the mills. Optimize mill outbound and inbound freight to maintain a steady material flow, avoiding over-or-under supply. Build inventories offsite in preparation for mill maintenance outages. Work with an economic mindset. Travel to your supported facilities and mills (up to 5 visits per year) to advance top segment priorities, expand your knowledge, and strengthen colleague relationships. Make decisions and recommendations on thorough data analysis and factual evidence. Facilitate weekly operations meetings with the facilities you support. Review and approve invoicing from warehousing providers and resolve discrepancies in external supplier invoices. Who You Are (Basic Qualifications) Bachelor's Degree combined with 1 year of relevant experience OR 5 years of relevant industry experience Proficiency in Microsoft Office, especially Excel (create and modify spreadsheets using formulas and ability to analyze data) 1 year of experience in customer service/sales support or supply chain/logistics Willing to travel up to 5 times per year (overnight visits) What Will Put You Ahead 2 or more years of experience in inventory analysis and/or customer service/sales support in a manufacturing business Experience with supply chain/logistics in rail and truck transportation Experience working in an ERP System MS Excel or Power BI proficiency At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy. Hiring Philosophy All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here. Who We Are As a Koch company and a leading manufacturer of bath tissue, paper towels, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, building products and much more, Georgia-Pacific works to meet evolving needs of customers worldwide with quality products. In addition to the products we make, we operate one of the largest recycling businesses. Our more than 30,000 employees in over 150 locations are empowered to innovate every day - to make everyday products even better. At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company. Our Benefits Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter. Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results. Equal Opportunities Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aqui, or tu). #LI-CH2