Strategic Operations Planner

AT LIFENET HEALTH, YOU ARE THE ADVANTAGE

Every day, YOU help us to save lives, restore health, and bring hope to patients and families around the world. At LifeNet Health, we cultivate growth, innovation, and collaboration, where your contributions drive solutions that benefit humanity.

Together, we are united by a mission greater than ourselves, a purpose rooted in healing.

ABOUT THIS JOB

Location: Virginia Beach, VA (Concert)

Department: Production & Logistics

Schedule: Full-Time, Monday-Friday (8:15AM-5:00PM)

Clinical Status: Non-Clinical

HOW YOU’LL MAKE AN IMPACT

As a Strategic Operations Planner is responsible for the development of an accurate master production plan for all assigned product lines in support of LifeNet Health’s service, capacity and inventory objectives and operational strategies. Provides work direction and guidance to employees in assigned value stream. Activities include hiring, motivating, recognizing and rewarding, coaching, mentoring, counseling, and training. This position serves as a liaison between Production and Logistics, Marketing, Finance, Engineering, Procurement and LifeNet Health’s alliance partners in planning and managing inventory levels as related to distribution and forecasts. Areas include supply chain development, modeling, and production planning

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Production Planning: Develops rolling operational production plans across all manufacturing facilities to balance capacity and resource requirements with demand and inventory targets using historical data and forecasts to determine future trends and expectations. Creates alternative production plans, including identifying constraints, alternative solutions and recovery plans.
• Team Leadership: Under the supervision of leadership, assists to provide daily direction and communication to team to ensure that day-to-day, tactical objectives are achieved in a timely and efficient manner.
• Model Development: Designs, create and utilize complex models to generate constrained production plans that meet organizational targets. Ensures accurate inputs and calculations in the production planning models for time frames ranging from three to eighteen months.
• Supply Planning & S&OP: Designs and coordinates the supply planning component of the Sales & Operation Planning (S&OP) process. Develop production plans for new product planning strategies & launch plans in conjunction with Marketing, Production, and Logistics.
• Strategic Planning: Generates strategic plans and recommendations to achieve the Long-Range Plan (eighteen months and beyond), to support organizational objectives.

WHAT YOU’LL BRING

Minimum Requirements:

• Associate’s degree required
• Three (3) years’ experience of Production Planning, Manufacturing Process Modeling, and Enterprise Requirements Planning with bachelor’s degree, Five (5) years of experience with associate’s degree

Preferred Experience/Skills/Certifications:

• Certified Tissue Banking Specialist (CTBS) Certification preferred
• Bachelor’s Degree or master’s degree in business administration, Supply Chain, Engineering from accredited college or university preferred
• CPIM or CSCP, Association for Supply Chain Management
• Five (5) years’ experience with SAP

 Key Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:

• Ability to prioritize (and re-prioritize) to meet expectations of multiple customers
• Able to convey information verbally and i