15730906 – Materials Planning Specialist – Dublin Contractor

This is a 12 month contract with a view to extension

Purpose

The Material Planner will ensure that all materials are available and compliant for commercial and/or clinical products in accordance with cGMP, Corporate and Regulatory requirements.
This person is responsible for ensuring that Material are available on time in full for the production of drug substance at ADMF based on a detailed schedule. The Material Planner will use SAP MRP to identify material requirements and collaborate with Global procurement and Site operations to resolve any supply risk. He will drive continuous improvement of material replenishment process focus on product availability, avoiding excess inventory and optimising safety stock.
This role must ensure effective interaction with the Supply chain, Manufacturing, Warehouse, Tech Services, Finance, Procurement and Quality departments regarding material availability for use in the production schedule in a timely manner to allow manufacturing targets to be delivered.

Responsibilities

• Materials management to support Drug substance production at ADMF
• Ensuring within the supply plan that materials are planned correctly as well as ensuring communication and escalation of material availability within the plant.
• Liaise directly with all elements of the manufacturing process, (Planning, Warehouse, Engineering, Quality Assurance (QA) and Quality Control (QC)) to monitor, report, and drive schedule adherence to the plan for material availability.
• Consistently deliver agreed service
• Maintain SAP MRP for the Biologics manufacturing to drive optimum inventory level of Raw material and Single use components at the site.
• Support new Materials introduction – work with the team involved to ensure successful introduction of new material for commercial use at ADMF
• Master Data Management – Partner / Collaborate with Master Data Management in relation to material and production master data and associated processes
• Inventory control
• Partner / collaborate with Finite schedulers to maintain process order and material consumption in line with our cGMP processes
• Partner / collaborate with finance and Global Supply chain to identify material excess and obsolescence risks based on approved manufacturing plan
• Work with global procurement and Global supply chain to optimise ADMF inventory in collaboration with the extended Manufacturing network
• Storage capacity planning
• Work with Warehouse to understand storage capacity of the warehouse and integrate new materials in a capacity analysis across each of the different storage areas.
• Developing business processes to improve reporting in relation to material forecasts, demand and availability
• Communicate operational status regularly to site management at the appropriate level of detail. Communications will be both written documents, and in formal and informal oral presentations.
• Applies analytical skills to evaluate and interpret complex situations/problems using multiple sources of information
• Write and support Change controls, deviations and CAPA’s.

Requirements

• 3 – 5 Years of Experience
• Proficient in use of ERP/SAP database systems.
• Minimum of 3 years planning experience in an MRP environment.
• Understanding of cGMP and raw material planning requirements.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Experience/qualification in Business, Materials Management, Operations or Supply Chain Management/Logistics or other equivalent such as APICS qualification.