Manager, Master Planning / Scheduling

About This Role

This role is responsible for leading all supply planning, scheduling, and purchasing activities for finished goods, semi-finished goods, and raw materials. It involves developing long-term supply plans, identifying risks and opportunities, and ensuring optimal resource utilization while maintaining customer service objectives and inventory levels through the S&OP process.

Responsibilities

• Generate, oversee, and execute all supply planning, scheduling, and purchasing activities & procedures for finished goods, semi-finished goods, and raw materials.
• Develop long term finished goods supply plans supporting the consensus demand plan.
• Identify key risks and opportunities associated with supply plans and develop recommendations to optimize resource utilization, customer service, and inventory within the S&OP process.
• Present key assumptions, risks, and opportunities in the monthly Supply meeting.
• Develop and maintain production schedules supporting the supply plan, considering production resource limitations.
• Monitor schedule adherence and attainment, ensuring on-time production of finished goods.
• Communicate with Production Supervisors, Maintenance, and Engineering to identify and track constraints and capacity.
• Collaborate with finance and production to develop, enhance, and maintain processes for achieving absorption expectations.
• Support and incorporate continuous improvement initiatives into the Master Production Schedule.
• Work with R&D, Scale Up, and Operations on new product launches as the supply chain primary point of contact.
• Generate supply plans to support new product forecasts and plan engineering batches, qualification runs, and media fills.
• Facilitate the creation of new item numbers and support the supplier qualification process.
• Optimize direct material and production supplies cash flow and inventory investment, considering safety stock, contractual requirements, and supplier constraints.
• Develop net inventory projections incorporating raw materials, intermediates, and finished goods.
• Review raw material and intermediate expiration dates to optimize consumption and minimize expiring material.
• Identify key risks and opportunities associated with achieving net inventory objectives and develop recommendations to optimize working capital.
• Collaborate with finance to support the monthly inventory reserve process.
• Oversee the inventory destruction authorization process.
• Implement and track KPIs including forecast accuracy, inventory, schedule attainment, and back orders.
• Track, monitor, and present KPI performance on a monthly basis in the S&OP process.
• Investigate root cause and corrective actions and drive continuous improvement in KPI performance.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, business, science, engineering, or related programs
• 5+ years’ experience in a manufacturing environment

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, business, science, engineering, other related programs
• 5+ years’ experience in a manufacturing environment

Nice to Have

• CDMO experience
• Prior supply planning, scheduling, or other supply chain experience
• Continuous improvement / lean six sigma experience