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Job Description Summary
The Supply Chain Senior Manager, will lead the Sterile planning group to ensure production schedules align with business requirements. This role will challenge demand plans, run scenario analyses, and manage a team of planners to optimize supply from both internal and external manufacturing partners. Acting as the key business partner for supply with the commercial organization, this position requires strong cross-functional collaboration to deliver service, cost, and inventory objectives.
Job Description
Job Description:
The Supply Chain Senior Manager, will lead the Sterile planning group to ensure production schedules align with business requirements. This role will challenge demand plans, run scenario analyses, and manage a team of planners to optimize supply from both internal and external manufacturing partners. Acting as the key business partner for supply with the commercial organization, this position requires strong cross-functional collaboration to deliver service, cost, and inventory objectives.
Responsibilities:
S&OP
- Participates in S&OP as the key process to align supply and demand while aligning key business functions on supply plans and clearly communicating risks and opportunities.
- Leads monthly supply operations master production plan review meetings; presents Sales vs Forecast, detail Firm Fence production/supply progress at CMOs, and recommends new POs and presents forecast of production outside Firm Fence, and “what if” scenarios.
- Develops and presents business cases for approval to S&OP
Production Planning, Production Procurement
- Utilizies SAP S4 Hana to run MRP to understand manufacturing and purchase requirements.
- Makes necessary adjustments to meet the consensus demand forecast/commercial requirements and inventory targets for all CMO managed SKUs.
- Presents the monthly master production plan for review and approval through the S&OP process and submits to Internal sites and CMOs for execution.
- Ensures all S4 master data related to production planning is accurate.
Inventory Management & Reconciliation
- Ensures robust inventory management process is in place for third party held inventory.
- Supports team to execute the monthly inventory reconciliation process, investigating any discrepancies, approving changes and making adjustment in SAP, and ensuring compliance to SOX regulations and internal auditing standards.
Artworks and Labelling
- Supports the artwork and labeling process to ensure compliance and cost minimization.
Qualifications
Education & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration or Supply Chain Management.
- Minimum of 8 years’ relevant pharmaceutical industry experience in supply chain and manufacturing.
- Demonstrated experience in production planning, operations management, purchasing, logistics, imports/exports, quality assurance, and information technology.
Knowledge
- Broad knowledge of finance, marketing and distribution.
- Comprehensive knowledge of supply chain processes and systems for sourcing drug products and active pharmaceutical ingredient; considered a subject matter expert in Planning, Procurement, Logistics.
- Well-developed interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to work effectively in matrix organizations.
- Supply planning for new product launches and technology transfers.
- Demonstrated success in leading site S&OP teams.
- Extensive user knowledge of ERP systems, i.e. SAP and analysis tools such as BI and Tableau
Skills & Abilities
- Demonstrated analytical and problem resolution skills for supply chain issues.
- Ability to independently evaluate, assess and initiate action; recognition of positive and negative impacts of actions, decisions, other market forces on business and people.
- Excellent interpersonal and negotiation skills with a proven ability to create and maintain positive working relationships
- Strong supervisory and leadership skills
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite
Physical Requirements