Strategic Planner Specialist

We are seeking an experienced Senior Planning professional to join our team. The successful candidate will have expertise in planning strategic APIs, ensuring stock coverage for each product as required, and compliance with corporate requirements for forecasting, purchasing, and supply of starting materials and finished products.

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintain full responsibility for the planning of strategic APIs
• Facilitate the planning process to ensure stock coverage for each product as required including safety stock
• Compliance with corporate requirements for the forecasting, purchasing and supply of starting materials and finished products
• Ensuring the review of planning results after each planning period, confirming all risks are adequately mitigated and reported to management in a timely fashion
• Processing and Analysis of MPS and MRP reports
• Ensuring regulatory compliance of API and finished product through close monitoring of Register database
• Work as part of the corporate supply chain team including close liaison with Toll Manufacturing sites and the provision of accurate forecasts to facilitate capacity planning
• Make full use of relevant software systems such as APO, MDM and Register, integrating them into the planning function
• Use of APO as intended for planning and managing amendments
• Developing and implementing process improvements with regard to planning
• Developing the knowledge and experience of the Planning team and ensuring cross training in all functions
• Appropriate planning for ancillary products such as price stickers, sample requests and reference
• Ensure compliance with all applicable regulations and that the organization is audit (ISO 13485) ready

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Business or related field
• 5+ years' experience in a similar role within the pharmaceutical industry
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to convey information and ideas in a variety of medias
• Tactful and confident at all levels both internal and external
• Passion for data analysis, trending analysis and reporting
• Ability to read and interpret documents including contracts and agreements
• Ability to write clearly and informatively
• High standard of technical documentation, routine reports, correspondence, procedures and workflows, as well as presenting numerical data effectively
• Demonstrate an aptitude for process improvement
• Maintain an advanced working knowledge of software systems as required including Office, Ross, SAP APO, MDM and Register
• Passion for data, analysis, trends, reporting
• Excellent IT Skills – and knowledge of SAP would be a distinct advantage
• Demonstrated expertise in pharmaceutical operations, as well as knowledge of the commercial dynamics, trends, and regulatory procedures that affect the pharmaceutical business
• The ability to identify patterns and trends in data, as well as to determine the root cause of problems and make appropriate conclusions from analysis
• Develop good working connections with a variety of stakeholders, as well as a rapid grasp and comprehension of complicated problems with a large number of interconnected elements
• Strong cross-functional and cross-language communication skills

Benefits:

This is a full-time permanent role with a very attractive package on offer for the right candidate.

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