Supply Chain Product Planner

Supply Chain Product Planner

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Engineering or Supply Chain or equivalent
• 4+ years in manufacturing or supply in biopharmaceutical industry or equivalent
• 3+ years’ experience conducting data-driven analysis and communication findings to management
• Fluent in English

Responsibilities

• Executes IBP and own S&OE horizon ensuring product balancing between demand & supply and gap remediation
• Responsible for creation and continuous accuracy of products related master data and planning parameters in Kinaxis
• Contributes to the standard monthly and weekly E2E Planning process & decision loop in collaboration with Supply Planning and Site Planners
• Assist in strategic and budget planning, provide data-driven insights for long-term decisions, and incorporate strategic changes into planning systems
• Drive ownership of product supply chain by validating net demand across all nodes (E2E) in Kinaxis on IBP horizon for a product or set of products
• Shares net demand requirements with CMOs via EM&S
• Decides on escalations on exceptions on demand replenishment and deployment rules to Supply Planners and/or Product Leader
• Ensure that the deployment plan is aligned to the Global IBP Plan endorsed by the Franchise, to include enforcement/escalation of policy, inventory targets and financial impact
• Validates supply plan provided by Supply Planning for product(s) E2E and monitors closely safety stock health
• Simulate scenarios across the network to develop risk management plans, address large scale supply issues and in response to GBU demand scenarios
• Conduct Distribution Requirements planning: Finished Goods Packaging from markets to sites
• Support production prioritization in case of crisis situation
• Providing guidelines for sites to prioritize short-term issues
• Understand the impact of risks/issues on the sites/CMO side on scheduled deliveries/FG availability
• Report short-term issues impacting the IBP-horizon via S&OE process
• Implement inventory strategy defined by E2E Product Leaders and set inventory planning parameters in system (Kinaxis) across all nodes at sites and CMOs
• Monitor and adjust inventory levels in Kinaxis to meet market demands and minimize costs, leveraging dVSM as a strategic tool
• Maintain proper product related planning parameters (e.g., BOD = Bills of distribution, inventory targets, PV=Production Version priorities) needed to support plans and ensure changes are made and formally aligned across the SC
• Support preparation for the Global Supply Review
• Maintain product performance metrics and drive corrective actions
• Assess, coordinate, and implement mitigation plan from IBP
• Support the E2E Product Leader in strategic tasks such as strategic planning and budget planning
• Provide data-driven insights and recommendations to facilitate long-term planning and decision-making
• Incorporate strategic decisions into planning and systems (e.g., Product to be produced in new site à reflect in planning system)

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced understanding and experience with the Integrated Business Planning and Sales & Operations Execution processes
• 3+ years of demand forecast and supply planning management experience
• Experience in launch and ramp up of new products
• Knowledge of pharmaceutical manufacturing quality systems and regulatory submissions process
• Knowledge of management systems and tools as Kinaxis, SAP, dVSM and Plai
• Experience of working with Financials and Budgeting
• 5+ years of successful experience and demonstrated ability and successful experience working in matrix environments (cross Functional and multi global location stakeholders’ management)
• Capacity to work transversally (with different functions such as market SC-BP, Site product planner, External manufacturing….)
• APICS certification