Senior Production Planner

57391 - Senior Production Planner

The opportunity:

The planner oversees production and packaging planning, ensures alignment between demand, material availability and resource utilization. Responsibilities include creating and maintaining short to long-term production schedules, managing inventory to prevent stockouts and coordinating with many different interfaces. The role involves cross organizational projects.

How you’ll spend your day:

• Develop a stable short, mid, and long-term production/Packaging plans to align with customer demands and resources capacities (RCCP).
• Create a 3-month plan for bulk production/packaging, adjusting in SAP and ensuring material availability.
• Monitor API expiry, coordinate re-testing if needed, and manage bulk inventory to avoid stockouts
• Communicate effectively with Supply Service, Scheduling, and Planner buyer associates.
• Act as the Supply Chain contact for quality-related issues, document and investigate deviations from standards, report to Quality Assurance, and suggest preventive actions.
• Participate in local and global forums such as Supply consensus, S&OP, and Safety Stock setting.
• Ensure planning data accuracy through regular checks and optimize planning parameters.
• Support special projects like serialization and annual projects such as AOP, LRP, and cost optimization.
• Ensure compliance with company standards including cGMP, SOP, Health and Safety, and Environmental requirements.
• Foster collaboration in strategic forums to optimize planning and drive continuous improvement.

Your experience and qualifications:

• Bachelor`s degree
• 4+ Professional experience in Planning department, in Global Companies
• Experience with SAP- Advantage
• Superior analytical skills
• Proficient working knowledge of Excel
• Very good knowledge of Microsoft Office, SAP and BI
• Experience in working with strict deadlines with high attention to details
• Excellent communication skills in an international environment
• Customer orientation
• Strong multi-tasking capabilities
• Strong oral and written communication skills in English