Sr. Supply Planner

About the role

The Senior Supply Planner serves as the primary point of contact for all supply planning activities within the assigned production area. This role is accountable for ensuring the timely availability of inventory to meet demand through the development and execution of both short‑term and long‑term supply plans. The Senior Supply Planner drives continuous optimization of the supply chain and proactively adapts planning strategies to evolving business requirements, working cross‑functionally with Production, Project Management, Customer Service, Warehouse, and Quality to achieve operational and strategic objectives. The Senior Supply Planner will be responsible for Rough Cut Capacity Planning (RCCP) for the long term period, works with the Production Team to determine plan feasibility and ensure optimal resource utilization, creates scenario planning and supports the Multi Year Plan process with GSCM.

Responsibilities

• Ensures materials availability (raw materials, intermediate products, technical material) to achieve the supply plan successfully and gives feedback on any shortages or changes to the corresponding departments.
• Creates and assesses scenarios and RCCP (Rough Cut Capacity Planning) in coordination with the corresponding production unit.
• Assist in developing business tools and processes to capture and monitor KPI’s for supply chain processes.
• Maintain Master Data in SAP IBP tool and serve as key user.
• Deputy of the S&OP Facilitator/Demand Planner.
• Monitors and releases the process orders and prepares corresponding analyzes and reports, including past due production/planning.
• Ensures the correct material reservation for all reservation types in his area.
• Owner of Global Specs Process.
• Converts the supply plan into corresponding process orders and carries out the hand‑over meeting with the scheduling department.
• Creates and maintains planning master data in SAP such as recipes (Bill of materials/resources), disposition views, and other master data in SAP relevant to planning.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Engineering, Business Management, Supply Chain Management or similar field with a minimum of 3 years of experience in Supply Chain Planning for Active Pharmaceutical ingredient (APIs) development‑related industries, Pharmaceuticals, Aerospace, or equivalent; OR an equivalent Business degree in another area with a minimum of 5 years of experience in Supply Chain Planning within relevant markets such as biotech, chemical or pharma.
• Experience with planning production and materials in a regulated industry (e.g., FDA) required.

Skills

• Excellent skills with working in a multi‑culture environment.
• Ability to simulate supply situation and capacity planning.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to analyze complex data sets and to support day‑to‑day activities.
• Strong working knowledge of ERP systems such as