Associate Director - Global Supply Chain Network Planner

About the role

You will own the monthly global production plan for Lilly’s KwikPen product family — one of the highest-volume and most strategically complex device-drug combinations in our portfolio. This is a technically demanding planning role that sits at the intersection of manufacturing science, S&OP, and supply network design.

Responsibilities

• Build and distribute the monthly network production plan to all KwikPen manufacturing sites, incorporating demand signals, site constraints, inventory targets, and technical agenda milestones
• Maintain an accurate 3-to-24-month planning horizon in SAP (PP/MM or APO modules), including all launch and flavor assumptions; ensure master data integrity in SAP and associated planning systems
• Reconcile plan-versus-actuals each month across demonstrated capacity, inventory levels, and confirmed demand — and document root cause for significant variances
• Track demonstrated and projected capacity utilization monthly across the KwikPen network; flag constraints at sites approaching threshold utilization and model alternative scenarios
• Prepare risk assessments for molecule-level supply gaps and present recommended mitigation actions (capacity pull-ins, inventory builds, source changes, demand prioritization) to GSC and manufacturing leadership
• Lead or support molecule risk assessment processes, inventory targeting exercises, and supply chain map maintenance for assigned products
• Translate product-family technical agenda projects (API changes, component changes, source changes, process changes, flavor rationalization) into planning assumptions and supply continuity requirements
• Monitor regulatory implementation milestones and surface disconnects between regulatory timelines and manufacturing readiness before they create supply risk
• Support Level 20 product change planning: maintain overview documentation and supply chain strategy for network-level changes
• Facilitate monthly touchpoints with each manufacturing site; distribute pre-read materials at least 48 hours in advance; maintain a shared risk log accessible to site and GSC stakeholders
• Collaborate with strategic facilities planning on network modeling, scenario development, and long-range demand analysis
• Collaborate with global product owners, business unit launch teams, and affiliate leadership on annual network business planning and demand realization strategies

Requirements

• BS degree in supply chain management, engineering, finance, business administration or related field
• 5+ years of supply chain or manufacturing planning experience in a GMP-regulated pharmaceutical or medical device environment, with direct ownership of a planning process (site-level or network-level)
• Hands-on SAP experience in a production planning context — independently capable of running MRP, interpreting planning outputs, and maintaining master data

Qualifications

• MS degree in supply chain, engineering, finance, or related field (preferred)
• Prior manufacturing site experience in a planning or technical operations role with direct exposure to production scheduling and site S&OP processes (preferred)
• Experience presenting supply risk assessments or capacity analyses to director-level and above stakeholders (preferred)
• Sourcing or manufacturing strategy experience (preferred)
• APICS CPIM or CSCP certification (preferred)
• Professional proficiency in a second language is a plus given primary site geographies (preferred)

Additional Preferences

• Experience with Kinaxis (preferred)