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Job Description
Lead a global supply planning team to ensure efficient supply of products from internal sites to meet global demand requirements.
The Global Supply Planning Leader is responsible for orchestrating overall Supply Planning processes, serving as the vital link between Commercial Sales, Finance, Demand & Customer Logistics, Production Sites, and Procurement. This role champions the Next Generation supply chain transformation, ensuring consistent global planning practices across the network.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead a global supply planning team to ensure efficient supply of products from internal sites to meet global demand requirements.
- Develop and execute supply chain transformation implementation plans.
- Collaborate with commercial sales organization and demand teams to understand market risks and opportunities.
- Partner with manufacturing organization to develop plans to ensure an agile response.
- Prepare and present supply planning inputs during the monthly Executive Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) meeting.
- Ensure adherence to and improvement of core planning processes like S&OE, Manufacturing S&OP, Production Performance and Inventory Management.
- Drive the team to full system usage by moving away from offline spreadsheets and PowerPoint summaries.
- Stay abreast of industry trends, explore novel solutions, and proactively seek opportunities to integrate cutting-edge tools and methodologies into workflows.
- Collaborate with the global site network to ensure standardization, consistency, and continuous improvement of planning approaches.
- Support the network in developing site budget volumes.
- Develop models for key supply chain parameters such as lead times and minimum order quantities (MOQs) to drive optimization.
- Consistently monitor changes in the demand-to-supply landscape.
- Lead transparent collaboration across all business areas to ensure effective and timely decision-making.
- Assess and monitor mid-to-long-term capacity requirements to support capital expenditure (Capex) decision-making.
- Lead the Supply Resiliency program to mitigate capacity pinch points in the mid-to-long term.
- Lead the API planning team, considering both internal and external supply nodes. Balance security of supply with inventory targets.
- Conduct decision-making analysis on API sourcing strategies.
- Plan talent acquisition and ensure people development plans are in place to support colleagues' growth.
- Align teams with the organization's overarching purpose and mission. Inspire and communicate the "why" behind our work, fostering a sense of shared purpose.
- Foster an environment where team members feel empowered to take ownership of their work. Champion growth and development by celebrating success and coaching during learning opportunities.
Requirements:
- Minimum 10 years of experience working in an international organization with a fast-evolving environment.
- Deep functional knowledge and experience in leading Supply Planning and other aspects of Supply Chain including Master Scheduling, Inventory optimization and S&OP.
- Proficiency in English.
Physical Position Requirements:
- Location is based in Dublin.
- Travel requirement (10 - 20%).
Resources Managed:
- 8500+ SKUs split amongst Bios, Pharma, MFA, Diagnostics.
- Team of roughly 40 people with capability to grow and expand scope.
Organizational Relationships:
- Report to SVP Performance and Customer CoE.
- Interact with: Manufacturing Sites Leaders, Regional Customer Service Leaders, Finance support, HR department, Global Processes & Systems, Central forecaster.