Senior Supply Chain Planner - SDF

About The Department

For more than 100 years, Novo Nordisk has been tackling the unmet medical needs of people living with serious chronic diseases, such as diabetes & obesity. Being part of Novo Nordisk allows our employees to embark on the opportunity to help improve the quality of life for millions of people around the world. In NC, we operate three pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities that are responsible for fulfilling different steps in our injectable and oral treatment supply chains. Our Emerging Technologies -Solid Dosage Forms US facility in Durham, NC is a 194,000 square foot tableting and packaging facility that supports the production of our innovative oral treatments for patients with type 2 diabetes. SDF maintains a curious and pioneering spirit, harmonious with our growing pipeline of new products and emerging technologies.

Position Summary

Manage raw material planning & purchasing processes for OFP manufacturing lines to ensure availability of material for production. Align long-term & short-term production plans with external customer needs & production line capacities. Continuously improve logistic processes & maintaining plans in SAP. Relationships Coached by: Site Vice President.

Essential Functions

• Create detailed production plans in order to issue schedules to multiple production processes & lines
• Plan & order materials for all manufacturing processes & products
• Update & maintain plans in SAP to ensure data integrity
• Create & analyze input data to prepare forecast & capacity utilization reports in SAP
• Collaborate closely with Line of Business (LoB) to optimize schedules & production plans
• Analyze impact of changes to input variables effecting Supply Chain processes
• Prepare & present Supply Chain status reports & analysis enabling senior management decision making
• Complete daily Operational Planning (OP) steps in SAP
• Ensure planned shipment of finished products to external customers according to customer order dates or inventory policies
• Maintain & develop department procedures according to cGMP’s
• Provide consistent & stable demand for raw materials from suppliers by effective & efficient planning & communication in order to ensure availability of the right materials at the right time
• Serve as member of OFP Leadtime project group & as such implement best practices at site Durham
• Perform other duties, as assigned

Physical Requirements

• Ability to work in an open office environment with the possibility of frequent distraction
• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time. (% can change on a case-by-case basis based on the role.)

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain Management, Computer Science, Math, Statistics, or related field required
• MA/MS in these fields or an MBA a plus preferred
• Minimum of 5 (five) years of experience in Supply Chain Management, production planning, or manufacturing & extensive experience in complex data analysis & programming preferred
• Experience leading/managing projects of various sizes/complexity preferred
• Excellent verbal & written communication skills; good presentation skills preferred
• Minimum of three (3) years of experience planning in SAP APO & ECC required
• Experience implementing SAP a plus
• Computer skills, including experience superuser of Excel (familiarity with Pas-x a plus) preferred
• Proven process improvement & problem-solving skills preferred
• Completion of cLEAN Basic, 1-Star and 2-Star training & projects (or willingness to complete); ability to become 3-star a plus
• Familiarity with SAP systems (BW, APO, ECC preferred) required
• Able to develop & manage action plans to achieve targets preferred