Senior Planner

Responsibilities

• Generating an 18-month finished goods supply plan for the Injectables business.
• Develop and maintain an 18-month finished goods supply plan for the Injectables business considering recurring downtime for maintenance and certification activities (e.g., media fills, HEPA certifications).
• Collaborate with the Demand Planning team members to understand and consider the consensus demand plan, key assumptions, risks and opportunities.
• Maintain batch size, Bill of Material and routing information in the Microsoft Dynamics 365 ERP software system to facilitate development of accurate supply plans.
• Supporting the evaluation of issues, risks, and opportunities in collaboration with the Manager of Planning & Scheduling within the monthly Sales & Operations Planning process.
• Support, in collaboration with the Mgr. Planning & Scheduling, the generation of supply & demand planning charts, graphs and associated output including critical assumptions, opportunities and risk associated with the supply plans and capacity loading constraints in the monthly Supply Meeting presentation.
• Developing a detailed production schedule for Injectables semi-finished and finished goods consistent with the 18-month monthly supply plan, and incorporating customer orders, sales forecasts, resource constraints, cycle times and inventory objectives.
• Generating and maintaining a 3-week detailed schedule of semi-finished and finished goods manufacturing operations considering customer orders, resource constraints, cycle times, inventory objectives and the 18-month supply plan.
• Collaborate with Production, Engineering, Maintenance, Quality Control, Quality Assurance, Finance, MS&T and Finance team members to optimize the schedule given customer requirements, varying constraints and standards.
• Support the development and introduction of new products to Injectables business and the planning and scheduling processes.
• Configure Bill of Material, Routing, Rate parameters for development and new products in Microsoft Dynamics 365 ERP software system.
• Develop 3-week detailed schedule for development and new product semi-finished goods and finished goods.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, business, science, engineering, other related programs.
• 5+ years’ experience in a manufacturing environment. CDMO experience preferred.
• Prior supply planning, scheduling, or other supply chain experience preferred.
• Continuous improvement / lean six sigma experience preferred.