Materials Planner

About PSC BiotechWho are we?

PSC Biotech is a leading Biotech Consultancy firm founded in 1996, headquartered in Pomona, California, USA, with Global operations in Ireland, India, Singapore, Australia and the US, serving 350 clients in more than 23 countries worldwide. We provide cloud-based software solutions for Quality Management and Regulatory Inspections, pharmaceuticals contract manufacturing professionals, and metrology services to our clients.

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PSC Biotech disrupts the conventional consultancy model by aligning our EVP as one of the unique selling point which includes the opportunity to work with the most talented cohort of like-minded professionals operating in the Pharma/ Biotech Industry. We offer a permanent contract of employment giving exposure of working in Top Pharmaceutical client sites in a diverse-cultural work setting.

Employee Value Proposition

Employees are the “heartbeat” of PSC Biotech, we provide unparalleled empowering career development though Learning & Development in-house training mentorship through constant guidance to facilitate career progression. We believe in creating high performing teams that can exceed our client’s expectations with regards to quality of all scalable and business unit deliverables, staying under budget and ensuring timelines for our deliverables are being met.

Overview:

The primary role of the Senior Material Planner is to ensure the availability of raw material components to meet the production schedule in Drug Substance, Drug Product and Finish Goods Packaging Operations. Ensure raw material components are planned, purchased and released within the guidelines established in the ERP SAP system. The Senior Material Planner will play a key role in the ensuring that the functional goals are met. This will require supporting the development and implementation of systems, processes and people to ensure optimal raw material coverage in line with the Master Production Schedule as well as product launch activities.

Technical Operations group is responsible for creating our drugs for use in clinical trials and for scaling production of those drugs for the commercial market. These individuals build and maintain cutting-edge manufacturing processes and sites, provide quality assurance and quality control to ensure we meet regulatory standards, and procure the needed goods and services to support manufacturing and coordinating the worldwide movement of our drugs to patients.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities:

• Accountable for Master Data accuracy in SAP for material components
• Accountable for representing the function in Global Category Form and Quarterly Business Review (QBR)
• Accountable for the weekly cross functional material readiness forum.
• Accountable for generating and issuing recurring Heatmap/Material Readiness to site stakeholders. Participate in weekly material readiness activity.
• Accountable for representing the function on the weekly S&OE meetings ensuring cross functional alignment of plans
• Responsible for Material Requirements Planning (MRP) in line with the Master Production Schedule in SAP to ensure that operational requirements are met
• Responsible for converting purchase requestions to purchase order as required by SAP detail schedule including payment of supplier invoices
• Responsible for monitoring Materials release status to meet detailed schedule
• Responsible for Inventory Management end to end including (Pricing (Purchase Info Record), Purchase Price Variance (PPV), reserve process, expiry, FIFO, FEFO, safety stock, lead times etc)Responsible for issuing quarterly supplier forecasts
• Responsible for ensuring that supplier open order book is issued and aligned with SAP on a weekly basis.
• Responsible for aging receipts, resolving issues and identifying root causes
• Responsible for Short Term Exception Management (STEM) program as required and proactively engage with stakeholders to resolve schedule conflicts.
• Responsible for inputs into the monthly site Supply Chain Review meeting (SCR)
• Participate in end of campaign performance review (Plan V Actual) to correct future campaign requirements
• Participate in site Single Use Application strategy meetings
• Participate in daily cross-functional meetings to ensure maintenance of Adherence to Schedule *(ATS) and Adherence to Plan *(ATP) in line with Make / Assess / Release commitments
• Participate as required in delivery of Change Request, CAPA ,Deviation & Supplier Change Notification (SCN) within the Quality Management System (QMS) system
• Communicate delivery schedule to production, warehouse (Shanbally / 3PL) and quality department outlining risks to meet the detailed schedule through daily management and tier process.
• Member of the functional process team level as required
• Facilitate Tier 1 Purchasing team meeting
• Back up for the Material Planning Lead
• Daily Material Planning Tier 2
• Daily Flow Team Meetings
• Complete material planning scenarios as required to maintain detailed schedule
• Engage Right First Time (six-sigma) and lean manufacturing practices leading to Operational Excellence
• Develop, maintain and publish KPI’s for supplier performance (OTIF)
• Functional Lead for Continuous Improvement (CI) projects
• Safety and Quality
• Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)
• Material Planner Standard Work
• Metrics
• Cost Savings
• Dual Sourcing
• Operational Readiness Programs (ORP)
• List above identify key responsibility, but other duties maybe required as per business needs

Knowledge, Skills and Capabilities:

• Development of efficient and effective Material planning processes and systems
• Engage with vendors in an ethical and compliant manner when required
• Be “Patient & Customer focused” ensuring that requirements are clearly planned for and communicated within the organization
• Be Results driven, while ensuring the optimization and efficient use of cross functional resources
• Contribute to the innovation and continuous improvement (CI) within Material Operations
• Be collaborative and cross-functional with all other departments within the site and across the wider community
• Ensure department and personal “goals and objectives” are completed in an effective and efficient manner
• A strong strategic thinker who can perform at both a strategic and tactical level when and where required within and across the organization
• Ensure a high level of integrity always while performing the role
• Demonstrate the drive and eagerness to be successful in this role with a view to developing and progressing to levels of increasing responsibility.
• Education & Experience
• A minimum of an Honor's Degree (NFQ level 8) in Supply Chain Management or other related Business discipline is essential
• Supply Chain Certification is preferred e.g. APICS
• Project Management or Lean Certification is desirable

Experience:

• A minimum of 7 years relevant Supply Chain Management experience
• Experience in Planning/Purchasing in a pharmaceutical environment with strong technical/systems background is desirable
• Experience of SAP is essential
• Prove track record in end to end leading and managing of a direct material category (specific experience managing chemicals, SUT's (Single Use Technologies) highly desirable
• Power BI or similar data analytics visual tool knowledge is desirable but not essential
• Experience working in a GMP environment for a minimum of 3 years
• Project Management with a focus on value creation and waste reduction programmes highly desirable