Supply Planner II / Sr. Supply Planner

Would you like to join an international team working to improve the future of healthcare? Do you want to enhance the lives of millions of people? Grifols is a global healthcare company that since 1909 has been working to improve the health and well-being of people around the world. We are leaders in plasma-derived medicines and transfusion medicine and develop, produce and market innovative medicines, solutions and services in more than 110 countries and regions.

Location: Clayton NC

 

The Supply Planner represents the site on global, cross-functional and cross-site teams evaluating sales, markets, and production capacity to enable annual sales of greater than $2 billion.  The Supply Planner is responsible and accountable for developing, communicating, and managing the execution of the mid-long-term (6-18 month) Master Production schedule which drives market delivery and profits for the assigned product lines.  The Supply Planner is also responsible for ensuring that all supply chain activities are in place for new products or markets in order to enable launch and sales.  This person must have knowledge of complex plasma processing, market and regulatory requirements, and be able to analyze and offer contingency plans when situations arise that may impact the supply plan.  The Supply Planner must be able to analyze, manage, motivate, negotiate, and initiate discussions regarding complex situations in order to support company success.  The position has global influence, balancing production plans with the global production capacities.  As guided by the objectives of the company, the Supply Planner plays a significant role as it relates to ensuring the proper process controls, reports and systems are in place, allowing flexibility to demand signals while optimizing revenue plans, production throughput and efficiencies, and on-time delivery metrics.

 

Primary responsibilities for role:                                     

• Create and maintain a mid-long term (6-18 month) master schedule that enables greater than $2 billion in sales by ensuring the site produces the right mix of products, sizes, and concentrations to fulfill customer demand.  Must manage within complex variables including established lead-times, manufacturing constraints, WIP inventory, intercompany transfers, regulatory and quality parameters, lot sizes and days on hand Finished Goods inventory at SKU (stock-keeping-unit) levels, and dynamic sales forecasts. Ensure raw materials and components are available to support production. Communicate and lead others in achieving established plan to support company financial and delivery objectives.

• Develop and execute capacity plan for designated manufacturing areas and associated products including decision making regarding planned and unplanned downtime, project implementation, manufacturing constraints and opportunities to ensure throughput is sufficient to meet delivery and financial objectives. Ensures timely resolution of issues impeding the flow of production and market supply. Elevate systemic issues requiring resources beyond the Supply Planners scope of responsibility.

• Analyze demand requirements including sales forecasts for identification of production and supply bottlenecks and recommending and implementing actions for resolution.  Communicate capacity overloads and potential strategies for resolution to GT manufacturing and senior management based on expected demands.

• Provide alternative strategies to Supply Planning manager when deviations to Supply or Demand plans occur.

• Maintain 3-month detailed batch allocation forecast to support market demands.  Monitor and communicate changes throughout the organization.

• Collaborate with manufacturing department/product leads to balance manufacturing constraints with production plans to achieve required supply plan.

• Prepare long-term production and supply plans for Senior Management in Manufacturing, Commercial, Demand Planning, and Global Supply Planning.

• Coordinate with Purchasing, Demand Planning, Quality and Regulatory (if applicable) product name changes, new product launches, new component implementation, and demand changes.  May lead and/or participate on project and/or launch teams.

• Evaluates and recommends actions to Senior Management to ensure on time delivery performance to the customer; expediting to market, if possible.

      o Present changes to supply plan for designated product lines at monthly supply and consensus meetings to Senior Management.

      o Communicate significant shifts in demand to the rest of the organization to ensure proper urgency is applied to the change throughout the org