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Sr. Supply Chain Associate

Merck Group
Indianapolis, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 9 Aug 2024

About the role

 

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Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you’ve got big plans – so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us.  

 

Your Role:

  • Utilize demand planning to ensure fulfillment of customer supply chain demands.
  • Lead cross-functional initiatives to develop and execute supply plans that support company and customer demand requirements.
  • Identify and lead activities to optimize the supply chain. Develop analytical tools to aid and explain where opportunities exist for improvement.
  • Maintain required raw materials, drug product, and packaging component inventory levels to ensure continuous supply of salable inventory.
  • Present to cross functional teams and site management complex ideas and data in a simple and easy to understand manner.
  • Maintain integrity of master data within the SAP application, ensuring data accuracy and timeliness of transactions.
  • Manage continuous improvement of the SAP system, including planning, purchasing and warehouse master data.
  • Responsible for day-to-day oversight of inventory management within the site as well as ensuring inventory accuracy and high level of customer service for internal and external partners.
  • Assist in qualifying alternative cGMP suppliers.
  • Support qualifying alternative cGMP service providers.
  • Support any cross-functional production planning meetings.
  • Ensure sufficient supplies of raw materials and components to support the yearly production plan.
  • Develop capacity analyses and provide inventory projections.
  • Drive site leadership towards improvement in the value of the pipeline. Own the process development process and improvement activities.
  • Leads the Supply Chain team in conversations about optimizing inventory levels based upon consumption, lead times, and space availability while meeting site EHS guidelines.
  • Monthly demand forecast review and analysis.
  • Provide leadership to foster continuous improvement in cost efficiencies and containment.
  • Perform special projects and other duties as assigned. This may include, but is not limited to, routing document changes in the internal quality control system, reporting supplier change notifications to the appropriate parties, and continuous improvement initiatives.
  • Responsible for logistical support to manufacturing and quality operations.
  • Responsible for supporting the cross-functional team in generating detailed schedules and maintaining supply of Drug Product with limited shelf-life in line within Indianapolis site objectives.
  • Main point of contact on supply chain statistics and High-Risk items with corresponding CAPA activity.
  • Maintain, and develop improvement strategies to strengthen the integrity of the SAP environment and inventory accuracy.
  • Responsible for leading and developing enhanced Supply Chain solutions to ensure continuous manufacturing operations at the Indianapolis site.

 

Who You Are:

Minimum Qualifications:

  • High School Diploma or GED.
  • 2+ years of supply chain work experience.
  • 4+ years of SAP or MRP experience in a manufacturing environment.  

 

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Merck Group

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