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Job Description
**Supply Chain Planner for Biopharmaceutical Company**
A key role exists for a Supply Chain Planner with a global biopharmaceutical company. The successful candidate will be responsible for translating the master production schedule into a feasible and accurate short-term detail schedule, ensuring on-time availability of product.
Responsibilities
- Provide key production planning information to support integrated business planning processes within the 0-13 week time horizon.
- Work closely with the area's finite scheduler and product planner to generate feasible production schedules.
- Responsible for local weekly and monthly planning processes.
- Responsible for reporting out key KPI's for planning.
- Facilitate weekly scheduling and capacity review meetings with production, QA, warehouse, and process development departments.
- Ensure a feasible plan and release plan for the manufacturing areas.
- Responsible for the short-term executional planning process in their assigned area, which supports the site's execution in S&OP process planning cycle.
- Manage and monitor SAP transactions to support production plan, capacity analysis, planning cycle, and procurement activities.
- Co-ordinate with the warehouse department to ensure availability of all components for the production line and the shipment of materials.
- Plan and coordinate repackaging activities and scrap requests.
- Own KPI reporting and coordinate relevant actions.
- Create analysis in support of projects or improvements and provide recommendations.
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, or relevant experience.
- APICS certification preferred.
- Approximately 2-5 years' planning experience in an industrial environment.
- SAP ECC planning experience essential.
- GMP Knowledge.
- Familiar with S&OP process.
- Familiar with production planning concepts materials requirement planning, production scheduling.
- Understands basics of quality systems and manufacturing processes.
- Effectively manages internal and external stakeholder relationships.
- Effectively navigates through ambiguity to resolve issues.