Supply Planner

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Site Name: Switzerland - Nyon

Posted Date: May 27 2022

Job Description

The purpose of this role is to plan the assigned portfolio of SKUs in order to ensure continuity of supply to the business at optimum financial levels and within compliance standards, following global agreed supply planning processes.

Responsibilities

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career, these responsibilities include some of the following

Supply Planning Processes and Improvement

• Generate supply plans with production sites to deliver stock to support sales forecasts. Ensure on-time order placement aligned with contractual agreement. Management of Open Order Book, ensuring alignment with manufacturing production plans.
• Liaise within market supply coordinators / Demand Planners to understand the forecasted requirements, NPIs and promotional activities, seasonality and manage supply to achieve and maintain high levels of customer service whilst meeting inventory targets.
• Proactively identify key supply / demand imbalance, assess the risk, run root cause analysis, evaluate options and propose solutions. Ensure corrective / preventive actions in place. Review weekly supply issues (Open out of stocks, predicted stock outs), and provide necessary input for weekly SCIM process
• Develop, agree with a supplier/ Scheduler and implement flexible repeated schedule (FRS) options / campaigns and use it to optimize production line outcome.
• 0-13 weeks supply plan, outside the manufacturing Lead Time, ensuring weekly load levelling of supply plan against available capacity and inventory targets, considering agreed campaigns
• Lead weekly review meetings with suppliers as per standard process to ensure effective management of short / medium term supply period.
• For Global / internal sites, manage monthly RCCP process in terms of graph generation and provide input to Supply planning manager on foreseen risks. Work with Supply Planning Managers on risk mitigation options and scenario Planning and preparation for SRM meetings.
• Review existing KPIs and lead / lag measures to prevent undesirable effects of supply and demand changes. Action agreed performance improvement plans and integrate new improvements into current standard ways of working
  

Master data & Inventory

• Optimise stock holding levels within the total supply chain through a detailed understanding of the key planning parameters and E2E process (safety stock, lead times, supply reliability, demand variability, service objectives etc) and in line with Working Capital targets
• Liaise with hubs master data team to provide input with the correct supply planning parameters set up of SKUs. Be responsible for the regular review and maintenance and improvement plan of basic supply planning parameters to reflect current supply chain performance indicators and protect customer service level targets
  

NPI/Artwork

• Work closely with Hub NPI Coordinator and provide timely information as necessary (e.g. first production date) , to allow effective tracking, risk identification and issue resolution of NPIs and Artworks
• Work closely with sites Coordinate to ensure timely launches of new products launches (NPI), artwork changes or product transfers. Work on phase in / phase out strategy to ensure minimisation of write offs linked to artwork
  

Why you?

Basic Qualifications

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Typically 2-5 years experience in Supply chain experience within a FMCG / Pharmaceutical business
• SAP knowledge
• Demonstrated experience of managing a complex multi sourced SKU portfolio and Order Book Management
• Demonstrated experience of managing supply issues and find and propose solutions to mitigate service disruption.
• Demonstration of understanding of using planning parameters to improve service and inventory levels.
  

Preferred Qualifications

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• Pro-active in analyzing root causes and proposing alternative solutions
• Disciplined in approach to tasks and good attention to detail
• Excellent track record in getting things done
• Good customer service and communication skills
• Manage high degree of flexibility and the ability to work calmly under pressure at the rapidly changing nature of the business and the dynamic market conditions
  

Why GSK?

Our values and expectations are at the heart of everything we do and form an important part of our culture.

As GSK Focuses On Our Values And Expectations And a Culture Of Innovation, Performance, And Trust, The Successful Candidate Will Demonstrate The Following Capabilities

These include Patient focus, Transparency, Respect, Integrity along with Courage, Accountability, Development, and Teamwork.

• Operating at pace and agile decision-making – using evidence and applying judgement to balance pace, rigour and risk.
• Committed to delivering high quality results, overcoming challenges, focusing on what matters, execution.
• Continuously looking for opportunities to learn, build skills and share learning.
• Sustaining energy and well-being.
• Building strong relationships and collaboration, honest and open conversations.
• Budgeting and cost-consciousness.
  

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