Planning Team Leader

Who are we?

Together, we’re on a mission to make good health more affordable and accessible, to help millions around the world enjoy healthier lives. It’s a mission that bonds our people across nearly 60 countries and a rich, diverse variety of nationalities and backgrounds. 

Working here means working with the world’s leading manufacturer of generic medicines, and the proud producer of many of the products on the World Health Organization’s Essential Medicines List. Today, at least 200 million people around the world take one of our medicines every single day. An amazing number, but we’re always looking for new ways to continue making a difference, and new people to make a difference with.

How you’ll spend your day

• The planning team leader is responsible for ensuring stable production and packaging planning and scheduling to secure supply according to stock coverage, safety stocks and delivery dates;
• Ownership of the MPS and capacity planning for assigned technology;
• Ensures strong cooperation / alignment with production to secure right capacity and resources;
• Accountable for plant production and packaging in order to meet customers schedule;
• Plans long-term (months 4+) manufacturing and packaging through utilizing SAP Level loading heuristics module and analyzes the capacity impact;
• Works with Production Planning Director and Production to develop options and accompanying analyses for remediation of over utilized assets;
• Ensures planning data accuracy and optimization of planning parameters;
• Provides detailed plans for production and Quality Control laboratories;
• Defines and maintains inventory policy on all production levels, also with regards to right safety stock levels;
• Supports yearly projects – e.g. AOP, Costing, Routing, BOM (scrap rates);
• Supports local and global forums and requests– e.g. Supply consensus, S&OP, Safety Stock setting etc.;
• Where deviations occur, ensures that they are fully documented and investigated, reported to Quality Assurance in a timely manner, as well as suggests preventive actions for future and ensures execution of such actions assigned;
• Ensures that all work carried out is in compliance with the required standards conforming to company – e.g. cGMP, SOP, Health and Safety and Environmental requirements;
• Responsible for training and qualification of Supply Chain Planning personnel and ensures that the required training is carried out and adapted according to need;
• Leads, staffs, and develops a motivated, skilled and optimally resourced team to ensure that performance levels and professional development achieve or exceed business objectives;
• Proposes and implements continuous improvements.

Your experience and qualifications

• University degree in Business Administration/Economics or similar;
• 4+ years professional experience in Planning department;
• 2+ experience with team leading;
• Highly team orientated;
• Experience in working with strict deadlines with high attention to details;
• Excellent communication skills in an international environment;
• Very good knowledge of Microsoft Office, SAP and BI;
• Customer orientation;
• Participation and leadership in cross functional projects;
• Capable of presenting information to all levels of management with supporting analysis under tight deadlines;

Function Supply ChainSub Function Materials Planning/SchedulingReports To

Assoc Dir Supply Chain, Project Management

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