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Associate Director-Category supply planner
10-12 years
Chennai
1 vacancy
Associate Director-Category supply planner
AstraZeneca
posted 3hr ago
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Job Description
- Ensure that supply within the 3 - 24 month horizon is secure, ensuring that customer service levels are achieved and inventory levels are optimized
- Partner with Global Planning and the internal manufacturing sites to deploy key business planning processes, including Inventory design/management, global forecasting, supply chain visibility, capacity planning, and scenario planning
- Lead the Critical Materials Supply Consensus meeting in-line with the global planning calendar in order to manage demand and supply exceptions and raise issues where necessary and accountable that the local site plan is updated based on agreed solutions
- Lead resolution of supply or capacity issues at suppliers where multiple AZ sites and brands are impacted. Drive alignment with Network Planning to propose required scenario plans to support decision making
- Responsible for global materials requirement planning and capacity outlook for the materials supplied by the Critical Materials suppliers
- Work closely with the Critical Materials suppliers and the AZ supply sites to ensure robust supply of Critical Materials with accountability for collating the data for the OTIF critical metric and assessing suitability of safety stocks for high-risk materials across the network
- Lead a robust supplier performance management governance with Weekly Monthly drumbeat
- Actively participate/understand BCP strategies and implement BCP actions for Critical materials
- Establish good communication links with the AZ Site planning network. Facilitate regular Supply and Demand meetings with the AZ Sites to understand the brand, site, and market dynamics impacting the consumption and future requirements of materials. Ensuring this is accurately reflected into the sites forecasts and the intelligence shared with suppliers via the Supplier SOP meeting
- Work in collaboration with the External Operations Manager/Lead to contribute to the Supplier IRM process, identifying and documenting potential risks to supply and working with the External Operations Manager/Lead and AZ Supply Site to implement suitable mitigations
- In supply constraint situations you will also be accountable for the development of network scenarios and following endorsement from the External Supply Lead, have oversight of execution of supply solutions within the AZ Network, communicating the associated risks
- Participate in projects and continuous improvement projects both internally and with external suppliers
- Collaborate and influence across AstraZeneca sites to manage supply of critical materials shared across sites and brands, leading material allocation as appropriate in collaboration with the External Operations Manager/Lead and External Supply Lead
- As an SME, coach guide junior team members
Essential Skills/Experience
- A degree or equivalent in Business, Logistics, Sciences or Engineering is preferred; equivalent experience will be taken into account.
- 10+ years of prior experience in Supply Chain Environment (Manufacturing, Planning, Procurement)
- Advanced supply chain (inventory, capacity and network) planning skills
- Capacity management modelling
- Operational experience with ERP/APS system
- Understanding of supply chain planning parameters, master data and master data integrity quality is a must.
- Strong competence in Supplier contract TC, SLA (Service Level Agreement), and MSA (Master supply Agreement)
- Experience in managing and developing solutions for supply chain events is needed.
- Proven leadership and influencing skills in a cross-functional environment
- Experience in collaboration with key interfaces within the end-to-end supply chain, with manufacturing, supply chain, procurement and commercial functions - experience working with third-party suppliers
- Digital savvy (data system minded), proficient in using key Lean Tools and have excellent communications and collaboration skills. This is required to handle a multitude of customers and partners, both internal and external to AZ.
Desirable Skills/Experience
- Robust understanding of and contributing to an SOP process.
- Advanced supply chain (capacity and inventory) planning skills
- APICS / CSCP or equivalent certification
- Lean certification
- Leadership experience
Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent
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