Our client, a leading pharmaceutical company, is hiring a Material Planning/Scheduling Coordinator, Forecasting and Planning on a contract basis.
Job ID#: 79281
Work Location:
New Brunswick, NJ/Hybrid
Summary:
Hybrid- Minimum 60% onsite(Manager is onsite Mon, Tues, Thur and worker needs to be onsite these days)
Activities include:
- Work with supply chain planners, strategic product leads and other key stakeholders, to execute the process for periodically refreshing and implementing safety stocks.
- Facilitate meetings to collect inputs impacting the safety stock calculations including lead-times, risks, current and future network structure, available sourcing options, planning parameters, and shelf-life constraints.
- Execute various inventory sizing models including BCM inventory model, RapidResponse inventory model, and service level agreement model.
- Analyze model outputs to identify drivers of model recommendations and year over year changes.
- Facilitate meetings to review safety stock recommendations and gain consensus.
- Develop presentation for leadership review and approval.
- Upon approval, lead meetings to implement new safety stock targets.
- Respond to inquiries and ad hoc requests from inventory management team members, supply planning teams and other key supply chain stakeholders for assistance in executing inventory analyses.
Essential Qualifications:
- Required: Undergraduate B.S. Degree or equivalent, preferably in Engineering.
- Demonstrated advanced Excel skills along with the ability to effectively use MS Word and MS PowerPoint.
- Required: Experience with MEIO, SEIP, or using models to set safety stocks.
- Required: 8-10 years supply chain planning experience
- Biotechnology or Consumer company experience utilizing world class planning and execution processes and systems.
- Demonstrated experience where problem-solving skills were critical to success.
- A proven initiative-taker able to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic, cross-functional team-based environment.
- An ability to cultivate and maintain professional and collaborative relationships with both team members and colleagues across the corporate enterprise.
- Strong presentation and communication skills, both oral and written.
- Prior evidence working in a matrixed organization.
- Experience utilizing SAP BI, SAP ECC PP, PP-PI, and MM and advanced planning applications such as Kinaxis Rapid Response preferred.
- Lean six sigma certification (Black or Green belt) preferred.