SAP IBP Supply Chain Planning Consultant

Contractor role supporting Supply Chain Planning activities with a focus on SAP Integrated Business Planning (SAP IBP), production planning, demand/supply alignment, and planning data integrity. Partner with Manufacturing, Commercial, Clinical, Materials Management, and Product Supply Chain teams to maintain executable plans, identify risks, and support structured decision-making across planning forums.

Responsibilities

• Support supply planning activities in SAP IBP, including demand/supply review, scenario analysis, supply commits, and exception management.
• Create, maintain, and analyze supply plans that support commercial, clinical, and non-GMP manufacturing requirements.
• Translate demand signals, inventory targets, capacity constraints, and manufacturing assumptions into feasible planning outputs.
• Partner with Operations to ensure required production is planned, scheduled, and executed to support on-time, in-full delivery.
• Develop rough-cut capacity views, finite scheduling inputs, and planning scenarios to support manufacturing and supply decisions.
• Identify supply risks, capacity gaps, inventory constraints, and data issues; escalate with clear options and recommended actions.
• Participate in daily and weekly planning forums, including Tier meetings, S&OE, and cross-functional supply review discussions.
• Maintain and validate planning master data in SAP and SAP IBP, including materials, locations, planning parameters, lead times, and related attributes.
• Support item lifecycle and master data change processes, including input gathering, approval routing, implementation, and obsolescence activities.
• Build and maintain planning metrics, dashboards, and analytical views that track supply plan health, schedule adherence, inventory position, and planning data quality.
• Support ad hoc analysis for launch planning, budget cycles, reforecasting, supply risk assessments, and scenario planning.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, Supply Chain, Business, or a related field.
• Minimum 7 years of supply chain planning experience, including hands-on experience with SAP IBP and SAP planning/master data processes.
• Experience in pharmaceutical, biotech, life sciences, or another regulated manufacturing environment is strongly preferred.

Pay

$55 - 65 per hour

Schedule

9am to 5pm

Benefits

• Medical, prescription, dental, and vision insurance offerings.
• AD&D and life insurance.
• Short-term disability.
• 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).