Job Description
Summary:
An exciting new opportunity exists for a Supply Chain Planner with our client, a global biopharmaceutical company based in South Dublin.
The successful candidate will with our client's Supply Chain team, and will be responsible for translating the master production schedule (MPS) into a feasible and accurate short-term detail schedule for a fixed time period, ensuring on time availability of product, whilst taking known constraints and planning parameters into account.
Responsibilities:
Provide key production planning information to support integrated business planning (IBP) processes within the 0-13 week time horizon.
Work closely with the area's finite scheduler and product planner providing timely and accurate information to ensure the generation of 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 support the site's execution in S&OP process planning cycle.
Local processes include production planning, line scheduling, and shipment planning.
Continuously identifies opportunities for system and process improvements and uses operational excellence (Op Ex) and project management skills to implement changes.
Report short-term planning performance metrics for their assigned area.
Present information, analyses, and provide recommendations to management.
Articulate and highlight key master production schedules changes to the MPS lead.
Provide planning SME knowledge to support NC/CAPA investigations.
Manage and monitor SAP / RR transactions to support production plan, capacity analysis, planning cycle and procurement activities.
Convert planned process orders to process orders and ensure a feasible plan.
Co-ordinate with the warehouse department to ensure availability of all components for the production line and the shipment of materials to ensure market supply.
Check component availability against the short-term plan.
Plan and coordinate repackaging activities (REDO) and scrap requests.
Own KPI reporting and coordinate relevant actions.
Create analysis in support of projects or improvements and provide recommendations.
Responsible for portfolio of commercial products, understanding all constraints and dependencies that impact planning activities.
Qualifications & Experience:
Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, or relevant experience.
APICS certification is 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.
Ability to work under minimal direction and independently develop solutions that are thorough, practical, and consistent with functional objectives.
Packaging experience is preferred.
Planning system experience rapid response RR is preferred.
Experience in pharma production, fill-finish and packaging is preferred.
QMTS is preferred.
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