Material Planner Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor degree in business administration or related materials management field, or a science.
• Minimum of six (6) years of professional experience in planning, preferably in a technical/scientific arena.
• Knowledge of cGMP manufacturing and regulatory/compliance requirements for pharmaceutical industry.
• Experience using SAP for Material Planning, Purchase Orders and Inventory Management.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel; experience with advanced functions and data analysis is a plus.
• Interpersonal skills to develop collaboration with internal teams and external suppliers.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• An ownership mindset.
• Understanding of business implications of decisions.

Nice To Haves

• Cell therapy experience desirable.
• Experience with advanced planning tool desirable.
• General knowledge of chemicals, reagents, and other MRO materials common to the life sciences industry preferred.
• ERP (Prefer SAP) implementation and scaling experience a strong plus.
• Ability to see detail in context to overall processes.
• Direct experience in Supply Chain planning, material requirements planning and purchasing, production scheduling for manufacturing - in the pharmaceutical or biotech industry or cell therapy preferred.
• Professional certifications like CPIM or ASCM (APICS) are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Oversee materials requirement planning for assigned raw materials that support cell therapy manufacturing, QC and development at the Rockville site using SAP.
• Own healthy donor apheresis (process starting material) planning and procurement to support autologous cell therapy manufacturing.
• Monitor and balance inventory levels across the Rockville site per demand and inventory policy, managing risk to ensure availability for production and development without excess and expiration of materials.
• Work with Global Planning team to adjust material supply plans based on local storage and resource constraints.
• Manage purchase orders to support production schedules ensuring no interruptions to development, clinical and commercial supply.
• Work with Logistics, Manufacturing, Procurement, Suppliers, and Quality to ensure materials are ready for use to support production schedules.
• Initiate relevant change controls and deviations, coordinate completion of tasks, and confirm closure of the process.
• Innovate and lead in terms of cost saving and efficiency.
• Align with safety, quality, and environmental policies and procedures.
• Assist in reconciliation of variances between purchase orders, invoices, shipments, and packing slips.
• Lead cross-functional team meetings to monitor and discuss site KPIs and metrics related to materials such as material ordering, material receipts/issuance, inventory stock levels on hand, material utilization and material transfers between sites.
• Help coordinate material returns and refund activities.
• Analyze inventory aging reports to ensure product losses are minimized due to obsolescence, expiration, slow movement, and excess.
• Coordinate with Engineering, QA, Manufacturing and Finance phase in/phase out of raw materials, as needed.
• Participate in S&OP/S&OE and communicate significant current/potential supply performance problems (capacity imbalance, non-compliant material, material shortage, supplier delays).

Benefits

• Qualified retirement programs
• Paid time off (i.e., vacation, holiday, and leaves)
• Health coverage
• Dental coverage
• Vision coverage