Master Planner at Aspen Pharma Group

Overview

• Manage the Production Planning processes, outputs and resources to ensure customer OTIF and enhanced customer satisfaction within operation budgets
• Medium term production optimisation and shift planning
• Manage and guide IBP process.
• Optimise Factory utilisation, Demand-, Inventory-and Supply parameters with customer.

Responsibilities

Master Planning

• Manage the creation of a factory wide masterplan, including production schedule, maintenance, laboratory, QA/QC, Warehouse and MRP across the value chain.
• Balance demand and supply effectively to achieve strategic goals.
• Provide “what if” capacity and schedule analysis for changing demand, staffing constraints, and new customer project awards.
• Plan to minimise effects of resource constraints.
• Develop and oversee capacity planning activities for sales and operations planning, master scheduling, marketing application timelines, materials requirement planning, detailed scheduling.
• Suggest batch size changes, re-routing of products and outsourcing/ purchasing of additional equipment, as required.
• Optimise parameters across the value chain to unlock value.
• Ensure that all units are aligned to produce an optimised plan.

Planning coordination and reporting

• Manage, prepare and facilitate the monthly supply point reviews for your specific unit.
• Drive the adherence to key KPIs including budgeted, planned and actual OTIF, ATP, Schedule adherence and recoveries.
• Work with production supervisors and managers for optimal efficiency to meet the needs of internal and external customers.
• Assess and report on manpower requirements.
• Assist the creation of SKU, work centre and labour matrix to allow for optimisation when demand or supply changes.
• Ensure change controls are actioned appropriately.
   

Risk and Controls

• Monitor sales against forecast volumes, identifying at-risk products.
• Identify supply deficits, over-scheduling, capacity constraints and under-loaded schedules and highlight recoveries-related financial risks and critical materials shortages.
• Ensure delivery terms are met and that correct documentation accompanies consignments.
• Input into routings, inventory policies and related pertinent processes

Planning optimisation

• Develop and manage data from all value chain units to create optimisation and simulation ability.
• Work with the analytics team to continuously improve our ability to drive key KPIs.

Requirements
Skills required

Background/experience

• 5 to 10 years’ experiencein a Supply Chain, Procurement or Planning role
• Experience in a pharmaceutical/FMCG manufacturing environment
• 3 year degree in Procurement, Logistics or Engineering,or a related discipline

Specific job skills

• Computer literacy: proficiency in Excel, Word, Powerpointand ERP system
• Solid understanding of S&OP/IBP
• Scenario planning, optimisation and/or simulation experience
• End to end understanding of Supply Chain operations in Plan, Source, Make and Deliver.

 Competencies

• Ability to represent SA OPS in global planning platforms
• Strong leadership skill to guide business decision making considering service, cost and cash.
• Taking Action
• Managing Performance
• Performance driven and solution orientated
• Strong analytical and numerical skills a must
• Highly collaborative, flexible and attention to detail
• Conflict management and resolution

Accountability & Decision Rights

• Demonstrate initiative and apply advanced concepts
• Root cause analysis and improvement plans
• Exercise interpersonal, communication, training and problem-solving skills in work performance
• Escalates highly complex problems or out-of-policy issues

Independent decisions relating to:

• Resources, approach and tactical operations
• Own and teamwork priorities and timelines
• Interpretation of policies, standards, requirements and approaches
• Management of budget(s) for team and/ or small projects