Manager, Supply Chain Planning

Position Overview

The Manager, Supply Chain Planning is responsible for the operations of current Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), Supply Chain purchasing, and planning. This role oversees the materials planning process and direct purchasing while liaising with both internal and external stakeholders on the status of material readiness. This role collaborates with various departments’ activities to align with the company's strategic goals, while ensuring efficient resource allocation and high customer satisfaction through management of the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system using Material Requirements Planning (MRP). This role is responsible for developing the planning team and orchestrating associated tasks to start up while transitioning into commercial operations. The Manager, Supply Chain Planning is expected to collaborate closely with all stakeholders to implement master data for both material and production planning in the SAP ERP system.

Company Overview

Follow Your Genki to North America's largest, state-of-the-art Life Science Manufacturing Facility & CDMO

The work we do at FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies has never been more important—and we are looking for talented candidates to join us. We are growing our locations, our capabilities, and our teams, and looking for passionate, mission-driven people like you who want to make a real difference in people’s lives. Join FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies and help manufacture the next vaccine, cure, or gene therapy in partnership with some of the most innovative biopharma companies across the globe. We are proud to cultivate a culture that will fuel your passion, energy and drive - what we call Genki.

 

Join us

We are growing our locations and are investing more than $2 billion into establishing a new large-scale manufacturing site for biopharmaceuticals in the United States to accelerate the growth of our Bio CDMO (Contract and Development Manufacturing Organization) business. This will be the largest end-to-end cell culture CDMO provider in North America.

 

The new site will offer end-to-end solutions to our customers looking to manufacture biopharmaceuticals in the US. In addition to drug substance manufacture, it will also provide automated fill-finish and assembly, packaging, and labeling services. The new state-of-the-art facility is located in Holly Springs, North Carolina, United States.

 

Job Description

What You’ll Do  

 

• Manages and leads team activities for the material purchasing and production planning team including responsibilities for inventory, suppliers, execution of material MRP planning, and managing production schedule• Coordinates with suppliers to secure timely delivery of materials and implementing process improvements to reduce costs and mitigate risks• Oversees the end-to-end process in Systems, Applications, and Products in Data Processing (SAP) for creating Bills of Material (BoMs), forecasting demand, and converting plan orders into process orders, ensuring efficient production workflow and alignment with supply chain objectives• Provides subject matter expert (SME) oversite to planning and supply processes and manages the Supply Chain teams on a long-term strategic planning• Establishes controls to ensure the business is operating at the highest level of performance while minimizing supply chain risk • Ensures the planning and purchasing teams work closely and effectively to support production plan demands• Coordinates and integrates the flow of materials and information among suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, and customers, identifying opportunities for improving efficiency, effectiveness, and capabilities of the supply chain to avoid supply disruption and improve material availability• Leads core planning meetings with all production teams to drive the production schedule to achieve business and commercial demand requirements driven from the Sales and Operational Planning (S&OP) process• Monitors overall inventory management and develops necessary actions to reduce slow moving and obsolete inventory and monitors review/analyzes supply and demand changes and trends for supplier lead times• Maintains compliance with all regulatory requirements and ethical standards related to procurement• Oversees the weekly reporting functions for material status and ensures correct allocation of materials to support the production schedule for all manufacturing areas• Manages multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring they are completed on time and within budget while meeting quality standards• Participates in existing and new project planning processes to assure timely acquisition of materials and production BoMs to support project runs for new clients and new processes introduced as required• Works with Finance, Process Science, Production, Qua