Title: Senior Planning Associate - External Supply
Location: Titusville, NJ - Hybrid (3 days onsite)
Duration: 1 year
Message Body: Notes from HM:
- Role will be Hybrid (3 days in the office)
- Travel may not be necessary, it is usually for a team building event that takes place once a year
- Title is Senior Planning on Associate
- Must have a Bachelor's degree
- Must have experience with Supplier Forecasting with external suppliers
- Will be supporting a new product launch, and some other existing products
- MUST have Supply Chain Planning experience
- Must have experience with SAP and Excel
- Should have an end-to-end mindset
- Will help with metrics, assisting with consolidating monthly analytical metrics
- Must have an Analytical mindset
- Must have 3 years of experience
Summary:
This role involves managing inventory transactions across multiple SAP platforms to ensure inventory accuracy during new product cycles, including handling finished goods, bulk, intermediates, API, and packaging components. The individual will lead or participate E2E planning for improvement projects, cross-functional meetings, and discussions regarding new product introductions and supply chain activities.
Responsibilities:
- Perform inventory movement transactions of finish goods, bulk, intermediates, API or Packaging Components across multiple SAP Platforms, to support inventory accuracy for MPC Cycles of new products.
- Lead improvement projects or participate in IMT or critical issue discussions
- Participates in Cross-Functional meetings to support new product introduction requirements and supply chain related activities such as BST
- questions for financial flows, purchase orders for trials PPQs and other supply chain related activities to support new product introductions, line extensions transfers or product extensions.
- Track and report OTIF, SLOB, Inventory targets, Demand Order Coverage, STEM Adherence, stock outs, and on-time launch metrics in support of External Planning team
- Assess and develop enhanced analytical capabilities to streamlined metric reporting
- Collaborate with E2E-planners, master data team, Partnership & External Supply (PES), Finance, Procurement, AP, QA/QC, Value Stream Lead (VSL), Launch Management, Inventory Management, and IT
- Support S&OP and business plan teams
- Support execution of supply plans in support of new launches
- Ensure processes and systems are in place to support the new product launches
- Serve as a role model for Credo based decision-making and represent External Planning on Global Planning and cross team initiatives
Qualifications:
- Minimum of a Bachelor's/University Degree required
- Minimum 3 years of relevant work experience in Planning, Operations, Logistics, Supply Chain, or related function
- Proficiency in SAP and MS Excel with strong analytical and quantitative skills, including ability to create V-Lookups and Pivot Tables; ability to draw insights with data
- Demonstrated ability to work across organizational boundaries through influence, negotiation, and partnership and collaborate/communicate across teams cross-functionally to achieve process and performance excellence
- Ability to identify and implement process improvements (business process, analytical processes, etc)
- Clear understanding of external Supply Chain trends and ability to derive business insights
- Ability to manage and prioritize multiple initiatives and work in across teams where priorities change rapidly and require delivering results against tight deadlines
- Experience with one or more of the following processes: analytical tools, scenario analysis, sales and operations planning, and/or Planning Systems (APO/OMP/SAP)
- Industry experience in Pharmaceutical or Biopharmaceutical
- Requires fluency in English (oral and written)
- Requires the ability and flexibility to accommodate US, EMEA, and APAC work schedules when needed