Supply Chain Planner

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 (OpEx) 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.