Materials Requirement Planner

Location: Netherlands

SIRE Life Sciences® is the market leader in life science recruitment. We believe the recruitment market needs to gear up in technology and continues innovation. We like technology, in a life science market driven on science, we couldn’t stay behind; we drive Recruitment Science. Investing a majority of our turnover in technology enables us to use unique Resource Technologies. By using highly advanced algorithms, we enable our team of Resource & Data Strategists© to maintain the most advanced, detailed and complete Life Sciences network in Europe. This big data enables us to work Reverse Recruitment©: we first analyze the market in-depth before we go out to the market. Because we analyze the whole market, we can compare facts and data. This enables us to do Facts & Big Data Recruitment©, making sure we, or better yet, you find the right career!

THE COMPANY

Our client is a professional Pharmaceutical organization, based in Zuid-Holland Netherlands.

ROLE DESCRIPTION

The Materials Requirement Planning (MRP) Planner/Buyer will ultimately be responsible for co-ordination and execution of all activities related to the planning and procurement of raw materials and components, converting the output of the Master Production Schedule (MPS) and the Detailed Schedule (DS) into material requirements to ensure availability of the right quantity of components to the production lines when needed. Communicating the plan to the different suppliers within the agreed lead times. Be an integral part of a team which optimizes the flow of materials, while considering the plants warehouse capacity and inventory targets in order to eliminate potential disruptions in the storage, storage costs and avoiding material scrap (SLOB) both at site level which rolls up to API Large Molecule Platform Level.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Execute the development, maintenance, communication and publication of the Materials Requirements Plans (MRP) to ensure that patient / customer requirements are met.
• Liaises with the suppliers to clarify potential plan constraints and interfaces between supplier and the key internal stakeholders to ensure issue resolution.
• Partner with Global Procurement to drive Supplier performance improvement including quality and on-time delivery in line with MPS.
• Communicate where required into the Supply Review Meetings (SRM) and ShortTerm Exception Management (STEM) processes at Site level.
• In partnership with Source, track and report site / platform level supplier service performance, communicating the information to the relevant parties.
• Interfaces with Quality and Warehouse staff regarding rejected / defective materials, making the necessary physical arrangements with the supplier to ensure a prompt return of goods or disposal.
• Executes potential deviations to the plan assessing with the suppliers the feasibility of the changes, rapidly highlighting to the affected internal stakeholders if the changes are not possible.
• Liaises with warehouse staff to understand and adhere to space constraints, managing inventory levels within agreed targets.
• Support the RCCP/ S&OP processes where required for material and component suppliers.
• Effectively partner with all internal and external business partners.
• Focuses and encourages continuous improvements (CI) of the process supported.
• Supports material and component Phase in and Phase Out processes.
• Connect with Supply Planning to ensure seamless flow of information and ensure a fully integrated approach to delivering key metrics – Customer Service, Inventory, and Cost.
• Highlight opportunities to have developed through global programs to deliver continuous improvement in KPI’s.
• Align with strategies and realization of departmental and company goals, advances succession planning by holding career conversations with material planning lead.

REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor Degree in Supply Chain Management or other related Business discipline is desired.
• Supply Chain Certification is desirable e.g. APICS.
• Lean Certification is desirable
• Relevant Supply Chain Management experience (Planning, Logistics or Manufacturing) is higly desirable.
• Experience in Planning/Purchasing in a multi-national environment.
• Experience in Pharmaceutical and/or Biopharmaceutical industry preferable.
• Experience in the use of SAP would be beneficial.

OTHER

• Demonstrate the drive, eagerness and capabilities to be successful in this.
• Strive to succeed efficiently and effectively within existing Material planning supply chain management processes and systems.
• Engage with vendors in an ethical and compliant manner.
• Selection and integration of vendors to ensure a high level of supply chain management performance.
• Implementation of an efficient and effective Materials flow process.
• Customer focused ensuring that customer requirements are clearly planned for and communicated within the organization.
• Results driven, while ensuring the optimization and efficient use of Janssen resources.
• Contribute to the innovation and continuous improvement within Janssen.
• Ensure a clearly identifiable work ethos.
• Collaborative and cross-functional with all other departments within the company and to align across JSC and other J&J organizations.
• Ensure department and personnel goals and objectives are completed in a timely and efficient manner.
• Perform at both a strategic and tactical levels within and across the organization.
• Ensure a high level of integrity

Are you interested and do want to apply for this role, please fill out your application via the apply button below and contact Rowin van der Zwaan.