Associate Director, Global Supply Planner

CSL • Kankakee, IL

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Associate Director, Global Supply Planner is responsible for developing and managing the full horizon (3-36 months) of network supply and inventory plans for products manufactured at Sites/CMOs. This role focuses on volume planning with a strong understanding of financial implications, setting supply plans for all product volumes, and integrating strategic and operational demand plans. The position owns operational capacity planning, including maximizing existing capacity, supply scenario analysis, and long-range capital investment and capacity planning across all products and manufacturing locations. The role also involves evaluating scenarios for commercial tender requests, upside opportunities, and selling mix changes, as well as escalating infeasible supply plans in the IBP cycle and providing financial impact scenarios for Supply Review Meetings. Collaboration with various functions, including demand planning, finance, manufacturing, quality, and regulatory affairs, is crucial to ensure feasible supply plans, manage inventory, and resolve supply chain issues. The role also ensures the integration of new product development into supply plans and drives continuous improvement of the integrated business planning process. The Associate Director will lead site master schedulers to align supply and inventory plans and track planning performance, practicing good IBP behaviors and leading metric reviews to drive performance and corrective actions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree required from ideal fields of Supply Chain, Engineering, or Sciences
• 8+ years of experience in Supply Chain Planning in the pharmaceutical/biotechnology industry
• 5+ years of experience with SAP; Advanced SAP (S/4 HANA) knowledge
• 5+ years of experience with an advanced planning tool, Kinaxis RapidResponse, APO SNP, or other
• Required to operate and influence in a global environment – English language fluency is required
• Certification in APICS CPIM/CSCP, IBF, or similar is expected
• Experience in business planning, S&OP, Project management or other relevant cross-functional processes is required
• Strong business acumen and understanding of business strategies
• Strong analytical, technical and problem solving skills
• Demonstrated communication and interpersonal skills in a global network
• Strong ability to plan and organize work
• Demonstrated capabilities in change management and stakeholder management
• Commitment to leading a continuous improvement culture within area of responsibility

Nice To Haves

• a Masters of Business Administration is preferred

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the full horizon (3-36 months) of network supply and inventory plans for being manufactured at Sites/CMOs – volume is the primary focus with a strong understanding of the financials. This role sets the supply plans for all product volumes flowing through the sites/CMOs.
• Develops supply plans (rolling 36 months S&OP plans in Rapid Response) to meet the market demands and inventory targets, considering the availability of raw and intermediate materials
• Integrate 3-year and 10-year strategic demand plans with those operational demand plans in Rapid Response
• Owns the analysis for operational capacity planning including maximization of existing capacity, supply scenario analysis and long-range capital investment and capacity planning across all products, all manufacturing locations
• Evaluates scenarios to support Commercial tender requests, upsides opportunities, and selling mix changes
• Escalates infeasible supply plans in the IBP cycle they are identified. Provides scenarios with financial impact for presentation at Supply Review Meetings. Collaborates across sites and functions to ensure gap minimizing scenarios are identified and feasible – this includes key stakeholder management across multiple functions
• Responsible for global inventory plans of all Paste, Intermediates, semi-Finished Products, and Finished Products as an outcome of the demand and supply balancing and optimization targets
• Supports the Supply Review Meetings (SRMs) and Global Supply Review Meeting (GSRM) with planning analysis, supply scenarios, and continuous improvement initiatives in order ensures feasible supply plans. Supports the BU Executive IBP Meeting with analysis and scenarios to address supply or inventory plan escalations.
• Collaborates closely with demand planning and finance to ensure demand plans have a feasible supply and inventory plans and aligned with “One Plan”, to validate plan-to-plan changes, to provide feedback on excess inventory situations, and to support root causing on service and cost issues. Collaborates on supply allocation between markets when supply/demand imbalance exists.
• Ensures the integration of new product development, clinical trials and commercialization into the supply plans including commercialization calendars, demand and supply plans, and new strategic planning initiatives as needed
• Measures and manages key metrics to drive best practice and continuous improvement of the integrated business planning process, specifically supply and inventory management. This includes plan performance, inventory turns, and service measurements.
• Drives resolution for supply chain issues through close coordination with manufacturing, quality, regulatory affairs, communications, marketing, and others as required to ensure that the needs of our patients, local affiliates and markets, and our business are met.
• Influential leader of the site master schedulers at each site/CMO to align supply and inventory plans and track planning performance
• Practices good IBP behaviors and helps to generate alignment across multiple business functions. Leads metric review and root causing below-target performance with corrective action implementation. Develops and clearly presents decisions to be made in IBP meetings which includes scenarios that have financial impact on the outcome of our business.

Benefits

• Relocation and mobility assistance are not provided
• For more information on CSL benefits visit How CSL Supports Your Well-being | CSL.
• Inclusion and Belonging is at the core of our mission and who we are. It fuels our innovation day in and day out. By celebrating our differences and creating a culture of curiosity and empathy, we are able to better understand and connect with our patients and donors, foster strong relationships with our stakeholders, and sustain a diverse workforce that will move our company and industry into the future.
• CSL is an Equal Opportunity Employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, please visit https://www.csl.com/accessibility-statement.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager