Job Summary:
In this role, you willlead the short and long-term supply planning activities for your assigned focused customers as well as plant assignments. The scope of this role is of significant revenue, quantity, scale, and/or complexity. The role includes Master Production Planning, Capacity Planning, Customer Relationship Management, SIOP, Capital Investment Planning, and Inventory Management.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Manage finished goods planning for medical devices for proprietary and customer owned designs
- Generate MPP (Master Production Plan) for Make-to-order items
- Lead weekly Supply Operations meeting for both plant operations and specific customers to review planning activities and shop floor performance
- Collaborate with order management and plant supply chain in managing execution of customer orders inside and outside standard lead time
- Resolve imbalances between detailed production schedule and customer demand
- Review order pipeline and compare to forecast projections. Identify and lead resolution of gaps
- Review forecast changes from prior month and adjust MPP on MTS items accordingly
- Review forecast accuracy and assess impact on service and inventory
- Identify short and long-term capacity constraints and lead constraint resolution with plant supply chain to balance demand and supply
- Recommend mid and long-term investment requirements to meet demand plan based on rigorous analysis. Provide this input to PER’s.
- Manage inventories for his/her product portfolios and/or plant assignments
- Manage excess/expired/at risk inventory reviews (bucket assignments, coordinate action items) with commercial and operations function
- Provide input and develop recommendations (data/slides) to the SIOP process for product portfolios
- Serve as single point of contact for supply planning on the introduction and execution of new product launches and technology transfers for his/her product portfolio
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in supply chain related concentrations
- Minimum of 8 years’ experience in supply chain
- Experience developing master production schedules, rough cut capacity plans, and resource plans
- Extensive knowledge and understanding of APO/SNP (SAP’s Advanced Planning and Optimization tool)
- Demonstrated ability to provide recommendations for SIOP (demand and supply) related activities to senior management and leadership team
Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Master’s Degree in related fields
- APICS Certified
- Lean, Agile or Six Sigma a plus.
- Project Management certification is a plus.
- Able to be aware of all relevant SOPs as per Company policy as they are related to the position covered by this Job Description
- Support and contribute in Lean Sigma programs and activities towards delivery of the set target
- Able to comply with the company’s safety policy at all times
- Able to comply with the company’s quality policy at all times.
Travel Requirements:
- Must be able to travel up to 5% of the time
Physical & Mental Requirements:
- Strong excel and report development skills
- Strong analytical skills and business acumen
- Ability to assess opportunities in the business and apply supply chain related solutions
- Broad perspective ability to see beyond the boundaries of his/her responsibilities or function
- Ability to communicate and influence at all levels of the organization
- Ability to respond quickly, present a concise recommendation and defend it
- Strong influencing and negotiating skills
- Ability to work independently
- Strong learning capacity
Competencies/Authorities
- Non-US only where required for certain levels