Planner External Supply
LanceSoft•Titusville, NJ
•Hybrid
About The Position
Planner External Supply is a strategic liaison between internal client customers and external manufacturing sites. The role is responsible for global planning and material management of externally manufactured and/or packaged products. It defines, measures, analyzes, and implements improvements and controls for planning and material processes to align base business, launches, long-term plans, and individual goals with client strategic objectives. Success is measured by timely order deliveries, meeting target inventory levels, and maintaining continuity of supply to customers. The position develops supply plans for new launches, supports S&OP and business plan teams, manages inventory and supplier performance, and collaborates with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders. It also represents External Planning in global planning and cross-team initiatives and contributes to digital transformation.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree required; a focus in Supply Chain or Business is preferred.
- At least four years of experience in Supply Chain planning, operations, or a related field.
- Proficiency in SAP and Microsoft Excel.
- Ability to work across organizational boundaries through influence, negotiation, and partnership.
- Ability to prioritize issues in support of customer and supply chain requirements and operate across teams in a cross-functional organization.
- Business insight in Supply Chain and financials, with a clear understanding of external Supply Chain trends.
- Ability to collaborate effectively to achieve performance improvement.
- Ability to establish effective communications and common goals and objectives.
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills, and excellent communication and presentation skills.
- Ability to handle and prioritize multiple initiatives and work across teams as priorities change rapidly, delivering results against tight deadlines.
- Ability to partner with and influence others with minimal coaching.
- Ability to serve as a role model for Credo-based decision-making.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
- Ability to work flexible hours when needed to accommodate US, EMEA, and Asia-Client work schedules while balancing work and personal time.
- Ability to travel domestically up to 10%.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with master production schedule processes, inventory, and supply chain management.
- Demonstrated ability in scenario analysis, sales and operations planning, planning systems (APO/OMP), and other cross-functional business processes common to the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industry.
- APICS certification.
- LEAN certification.
Responsibilities
- Set up balanced volume, detailed, and material plans that account for operational efficiency, inventory and stock costs, SLOB risk, and customer service.
- Create and maintain Purchase Orders and SAP transactions.
- Lead improvement projects or participate in IMT or critical issue discussions.
- Build and maintain internal and external relationships so plants can interpret demand and inventory requirements and provide appropriate capacity, products, and schedules.
- Proactively identify issues that may affect supply and drive short- and long-term planning activities, processes, and day-to-day planning.
- Support quality assurance and customer issues by retrieving, interpreting, and supervising demand and sales trends; calculating safety stock; optimizing inventory levels; resolving mismatches and payment issues; leading the monthly renewal process; collecting monthly supplier performance metrics; and creating or updating external supplier orders.
- Follow the global monthly planning schedule to deliver plans to downstream plants in OMP.
- Communicate forecasts and priorities to external sites, including event planning.
- Collaborate with E2E planners, the 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 target stock levels at DC and EM sites.
- Manage day-to-day supply issues.
- Identify and lead process-related improvements across the CMO supply chain.
- Create new master data and ensure existing master data is accurate and updated for reliable MRP/ERP outputs.
- Support S&OP and business plan teams and develop supply plans for 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 a performance development plan and company goals to achieve personal and business excellence.
- Track and report OTIF, SLOB, inventory targets, Demand Order Coverage, STEM Adherence, stockouts, and timely launch metrics.
- Maintain training compliance.
- Collaborate on Digital Transformation.
