External Supply Chain Planner

Pay Range: $32.54hr - $37.54hr

Job Overview:

The Planner External Supply serves as a strategic liaison between internal organization customers and external manufacturing sites. This position is responsible for the global planning and material management of externally manufactured and packaged products. The role defines, measures, analyzes, and implements improvements and controls for planning and material processes to ensure base business, launches, long-term, and individual goals are aligned with the organization's strategic objectives. Success in this role is measured by timely deliveries of orders that meet target inventory levels and maintain continuity of supply to customers.

Responsibilities:

• Set up a balanced volume plan, detailed plan, and material plan which takes into account operations efficiency, inventory and stock cost, SLOB risk, and customer service.
• Create and maintain Purchase Orders and SAP transactions.
• Lead improvement projects or participate in IMT or critical issue discussions.
• Create and maintain relationships, internally and externally, that allow plants to interpret demand and inventory requirements and respond with the right capacity, products, and schedules to meet customer requirements.
• Proactively identify issues that may impact supply, drive short- and long-term planning activities/processes, and handle day-to-day planning.
• Manage Quality Assurance and customer issues, including retrieving, interpreting, and supervising demand and sales trends, calculating safety stock, optimizing inventory levels, resolving mismatches/payment issues, leading the monthly renewal process, collecting monthly supplier performance metrics, and creating/updating orders to external suppliers.
• Follow global monthly planning schedule to deliver plans to downstream plants in OMP.
• Communicate forecast and priorities to external sites, including event planning.
• Collaborate with E2E-planners, master data team, PES, finance, procurement, AP, QA/QC, VSL, Launch Management, Inventory Management, and IT.
• Handle inventory and the SLOB process to maintain accurate and target stock levels at DC and EM sites.
• Manage day-to-day supply issues.
• Identify and lead process-related improvements across the supply chain of the CMO.
• Create new master data and ensure master data is accurate and updated as required for reliable MRP/ERP outputs.
• Support S&OP and business plan teams, and develop supply plans in support of new launches.
• Ensure processes and systems are in place to support new product launches.
• Represent External Planning on Global Planning and cross-team initiatives.
• Manage performance development plans and organizational goals to achieve personal and business excellence.
• Track and report OTIF, SLOB, Inventory targets, Demand Order Coverage, STEM Adherence, stock-outs, and timely launch metrics.
• Maintain training compliance.
• Collaborate on Digital Transformation initiatives.

Qualifications:

A minimum of a Bachelor's Degree is required; a focus in Supply Chain or Business is preferred.

Required Experience and Skills:

• A minimum of 4 years of experience in Supply Chain planning, operations, or a related field.
• Proficiency in SAP and MS Excel.
• Proven ability to work across organizational boundaries through influence, negotiation, and partnership.
• Ability to prioritize issues to support customer and supply chain requirements, and operate across teams in a cross-functional organization.
• Confirmed business insight in the area of Supply Chain and financials with a clear understanding of external Supply Chain trends.
• Collaborates effectively to achieve performance improvement.
• Establishes effective communications and common goals and objectives.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills, with excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to handle and prioritize multiple initiatives and work across teams where priorities change rapidly and require delivering results against tight deadlines.
• Ability to partner with and influence others with minimal coaching.
• Serves as a role model for values-based decision-making.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience within master production schedule processes, inventory, and supply chain management.
• Demonstrated ability within scenario analysis, sales and operations planning, Planning Systems (APO/OMP), and other cross-functional business processes common to the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industry.
• APICS and LEAN Certification.

Other Requirements:

• Ability to work flexible hours to accommodate US, EMEA, and Asia-Pac work schedules when needed.
• Requires up to 10% domestic travel.