Veterinary Pharmaceutical Job Vacancy : Production Planner

Veterinary Pharmaceutical Job Vacancy : Production Planner

November 5, 2014

Job Description

Our client a leading veterinary pharmaceutical is currently seeking to fill the position of a Production Planner.
The incumbent will be tasked with a key role of creating an optimized production plan to minimize supply chain costs within operational constraints.

Key Performance Indicators

• Meet the customer service and inventory level objectives while optimizing the usage of physical resources, and human capital (capacity).
• Minimizing operating costs such as destruction of expired products and holding excess stock / material.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Conducts a needs analysis from sales forecasts/orders from the markets
• Understand the capacity required / available (CRP)
• Understand the needs for equipment, labor and particularities of new products, engineering, and maintenance and reflect these needs in the schedule.
• Monitor and review forecasts to identify changes or to determine their effect on supply chain activities
• Develops production and packaging schedules to maximize customer service, minimize inventory and costs while seeking a stable schedule.
• Initiate and schedules work orders (process orders).
• Revises the schedule of work orders (process orders) for finished products.
• Schedule packaging jobs.
• Works in conjunction with the other Coordinators to resolve conflicting priorities.
• Confer with stakeholders to forecast demand or create production plans that ensure availability of materials or products
• Build processes and controls for the inventory team to follow to ensure shipments arrive on time to meet projected needs
• Manage the operational inventory to ensure adequate stocking levels for immediate production items and forecasting for future requirements
• Participate in the daily production meetings.
• Maintains reports and information needed such as:
• Back-order Report
• Document escalation
• Dashboard (including schedule changes)
• Blocked status, Managing Expired, FG short-dated
• Possible overstock

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Operations Management/ Supply Chain management or equivalent
• Experience in healthcare/ pharmaceutical manufacturing preferred
• 1-3 years of experience in Production Planning a MUST

Skills, Knowledge and Abilities:

• Results-oriented
• Ability to manage priorities
• Ability to solve problems
• In depth understanding of manufacturing process and production strategies
• Inventory Management and differentiated stock strategies and control
• Experience with a Scheduling Software
• Some financial background is of advantage
• Understand and foster interfaces between Demand, Supply, Production & Deployment planning

How to Apply

Qualified candidates to send in their CVs to info@frankmconsult.com CC frankmconsult@yahoo.com