Sr. Materials Planner
About The Position
As a Senior Materials Planner at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you'll play a crucial role in optimizing supply chain processes and ensuring seamless manufacturing operations. You'll provide strategic guidance over supply chain management, coordinating the timely delivery of materials that support manufacturing and assembly processes. Your expertise will be essential in maintaining data integrity in our ERP system, managing inventory levels, and establishing effective shipping schedules. In this role, you'll analyze inventory forecasts, consistently maximize manufacturing utilization, and oversee critical processes including cycle counts and engineering changes. You'll have the opportunity to directly impact operational efficiency by minimizing inventory carrying costs while ensuring optimal stock levels to meet customer demands, as well as optimizing operational resources. This position offers the chance to make meaningful contributions to our mission of enabling customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer.
Requirements
- Advanced Degree plus 6 years of experience, or Bachelor's Degree plus 8 years of experience in a manufacturing environment
- 5+ years of experience with ERP systems (preferrable SAP) in materials coordination
- Deep experience in capacity planning and manufacturing alignment
- Exposure to S&OP process and execution
- Strong knowledge of inventory management and supply chain processes
- Demonstrated leadership experience in manufacturing materials organization
- Advanced proficiency in MS Excel, including pivot tables and macros for data analysis
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with ability to identify potential supply chain issues
- Expertise in inventory forecasting and demand planning
- Knowledge of engineering change management processes
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Detail-oriented with excellent organizational abilities
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.
- Must be able to pass a comprehensive background check, which includes a drug screening.
Nice To Haves
- Preferred Fields of Study: Operations Management, Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, or related field
- Experience coordinating with different operational counterparts (like Manufacturing, Procurement, NPI) preferrable.
Responsibilities
- Provide strategic guidance over supply chain management.
- Coordinate the timely delivery of materials that support manufacturing and assembly processes.
- Maintain data integrity in our ERP system.
- Manage inventory levels.
- Establish effective shipping schedules.
- Analyze inventory forecasts.
- Maximize manufacturing utilization.
- Oversee critical processes including cycle counts and engineering changes.
- Minimize inventory carrying costs while ensuring optimal stock levels to meet customer demands.
- Optimize operational resources.
- Manage vendor relationships and pricing negotiations.
- Reconcile cycle counts and manage non-conforming materials inventory.
Benefits
- A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs
- Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement
- At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO)
- 10 paid holidays annually
- Paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave)
- Accident and life insurance
- Short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy
- Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan
- Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
