Senior Planner

Kindeva • St. Louis, MO

13d • Onsite

About The Position

Our Work Matters At Kindeva we make products that save lives, ensuring better health and well-being for patients around the world.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, business, science, engineering, other related programs
• 5+ years’ experience in a manufacturing environment.

Nice To Haves

• CDMO experience preferred
• Prior supply planning, scheduling, or other supply chain experience preferred
• Continuous improvement / lean six sigma experience preferred

Responsibilities

• Generating an 18-month finished goods supply plan for the Injectables business.
• Develop and maintain an 18-month finished goods supply plan for the Injectables business considering recurring downtime for maintenance and certification activities (e.g., media fills, HEPA certifications)
• development of the consensus demand plan collaborating with customers, sales and commercial colleagues and considering available market intelligence
• Collaborate with the Demand Planning team members to understand and consider the consensus demand plan, key assumptions, risks and opportunities.
• Maintain batch size, Bill of Material and routing information in the Microsoft Dynamics 365 ERP software system to facilitate development of accurate supply plans
• Supporting the evaluation of issues, risks, and opportunities in collaboration with the Manager of Planning & Scheduling within the monthly Sales & Operations Planning process.
• Support, in collaboration with the Mgr. Planning & Scheduling, the generation of supply & demand planning charts, graphs and associated output including critical assumptions, opportunities and risk associated with the supply plans and capacity loading constraints in the monthly Supply Meeting presentation
• Developing a detailed production schedule for Injectables semi-finished and finished goods consistent with the 18-month monthly supply plan, and incorporating customer orders, sales forecasts, resource constraints, cycle times and inventory objectives
• Generate and maintain a 3-week detailed schedule of semi-finished and finished goods manufacturing operations considering customer orders, resource constraints, cycle times, inventory objectives and the 18-month supply plan
• Collaborate with Production, Engineering, Maintenance, Quality Control, Quality Assurance, Finance, MS&T and Finance team members to optimize the schedule given customer requirements, varying constraints and standards
• The Senior Planner & Scheduler will also support the development and introduction of new products to Injectables business and the planning and scheduling processes.
• Configure Bill of Material, Routing, Rate parameters for development and new products in Microsoft Dynamics 365 ERP software system
• Develop 3-week detailed schedule for development and new product semi-finished goods and finished goods

What This Job Offers

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