Job Description:
The Production Planner will be responsible for all activities related to production planning, demand and capacity management, plan governance, system parameterization and MD review, and inventory control.
Key Responsibilities:
* Collaborate with Production Scheduling Team, Production Planning Team, and other stakeholders to ensure a feasible and balanced supply plan in accordance with agreed service levels, safety stock, appropriate raw material and supply plans, capacity plans, and identified constraints.
* Review alerts exceeding threshold, identify proposed changes, prioritize orders, working with the scheduling team, attend Material Supply Tier 1 meeting, share urgent issues, and escalate into Tier 2 boards.
* Actively participate in Cross Site calls, flag demand signal issues, identify network material supply issues, and proposed plan changes, ensuring alignment of demand and supply signal.
* Handover orders to the scheduling team, ensuring network material availability, conduct weekly 'handshake' meeting with Production Schedulers to discuss priorities and monitor/control schedule break-ins.
Demand/Capacity Management:
* Support monthly demand changes analysis, flagging substantial changes in demand, analyse results with the planning team lead, evaluate impacts, and address concerns with stakeholders.
* Liaise with upstream/downstream supplying sites to interrogate and validate demand changes, identify root causes, ensure system requirements up to date.
* Model system demand gaps caused by source change, work with network stakeholders to resolve demand signal issues, support scenarios planning analysis.
* Manage resource capacity in the system to ensure a feasible plan and correct demand signal upstream, collaborate with Production Scheduling Team to resolve asset balancing trade-offs.
Plan Governance:
* Support allocation plan with BSL guidance and handover to Scheduling (in constrained supply scenarios), participate in weekly supply governance calls to troubleshoot low stock issues and balance cost vs. supply trade-offs.
* Track root causes, prioritize remediation and prevention actions.
Parameters and Metrics:
* Review/update system supply chain Master Data, monitors Key Planning Metrics, take actions to improve them, escalate metrics within Tier structure.
Inventory Control:
* Ensure inventory usage of network materials, avoid obsolescence by checking their ageing, track, review, and communicate network material I inventory vs. target MoH.
* Monitor network material shelf life, ensure adherence to RIDS avoidance processes, coordinate RIDS process with site MRB.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
* BS/BA in Technical or Business field required (supply chain management, systems or industrial engineering); advanced degree a plus.
* Experience in Logistics and Supply Chain Management in Pharmaceutical Industry or equivalent, proven experience in supply and inventory planning and operational execution.
* Understanding of logistics and supply chain environment, process development, and ERP/advanced planning systems (e.g., APO, ECC, BI) and best practices is required.
* Demonstrated analytical, strategic thinking/planning, and problem-solving skills.
* Understanding of manufacturing and packaging activities.
* Ability to work effectively in an environment of competing priorities with concurrent deadlines.
* Ability to work in a complex matrix organization with strong teamwork orientation.
* Ability to interact, build effective relationships at all levels of the organization.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
* APICS CPIM or CSCP certification preferred.