Supply Chain Planner at The Biovac Institute

Job description

The Biovac Institute requires a Planner to contribute to its mission of establishing local biological and vaccine manufacturing capability at its Cape Town based site. Being the only one of its kind in South Africa, Biovac strives to respond to the vaccine needs of the developing countries, specifically South Africa and Sub Saharan Africa. This is a particularly exciting time for the company as it continues to grow, strengthen and build on its success and further develop its capabilities, products, services and market diversification.

The successful incumbent will report to the Planning Section Head.

The Key Performance Areas for this position include:

Duties & Responsibilities

• In SAP create and maintain Materials Master Data, Demand Data, Production Master Data, Work Centres, Bill of Materials, Routings and Production Versions.
• Create Production Orders, Confirm Production Orders Coordinate and release production orders.
• Check materials movements in SAP
• Responsible for PP module month end process in SAP.
• Evaluate available capacity and review Bottleneck work centres in SAP
• Run MRP and maintain exception messages in SAP
• Load independent requirements in SAP
• Load requisitions in SAP and create Purchase Orders in SAP
• Participate in planning meetings with Stakeholders and related cross- functional participants to help establish Master Plan, Operations Plans and Inventory Levels for specific finished good products.
• Analyse and manage independent demand materials to maintain sufficient supply according to provided company guidelines.
• Distribute Shop Floor Documentation.
• Revise schedules as needed to accomplish certain benchmarks in the manufacturing process.
• Interface with Purchasing team to insure required materials will be available when needed to release production build orders to manufacturing on schedule.
• Create, analyse and distribute various reports regarding requirements, progress, fulfilment, and backlog issues.
• Work with Sales, Purchasing, Production and Quality teams on New Product Introductions.
• Troubleshoot internal material issues such as quality, sub-contract operations, and transfer issues.
• Interface with and manage considerable data resources to support all facets of Planning operations.
• Monitor Master Data for accuracy to ensure stock accuracy and total cost.
• Building own cGMP knowledge and compliance
• Participate in achieving the company’s quality objectives.
• Participate in building a sustainable quality culture on site and proactive mitigate risks that may negatively impact quality or escalate these appropriately.
• Ensuring audit readiness within own role through closing out audit findings timeously
• Ensure Deviations, Change Controls, CAPAs are handled effectively
• Advocate continuous improvement

Technical Competencies required to perform this aspect of the role:

• General SAP Master Data knowledge and experience.
• Expertise in production master data such as Material Masters, Material Revisions, BOMs, Work Centers, and Routings and their integration touchpoints with production planning and execution
• Experience in Planning related data, Reporting and Managing Product Disposition
• Solid understanding of SAP “Best Practices” regarding SAP PP / MM modules and its integration with other SAP modules
• Understanding of the core business processes related to forecasting, end-to-end demand planning, statistical models, and its association to SAP SCM in typical manufacturing industry
• Understands the manufacturing process thoroughly, and has reasonable expectations as to what can be accomplished in a certain timeframe
• Computer Literacy
• Technical report writing skills
• Standard Operating Procedures
• Pharmaceutical industry standards and guidelines in GMP
• Quality management systems and documentation

Generic Competencies

• Planning, Organising, execution and monitoring
• Creative problem solving skills
• Internal stakeholder management
• Action & Results Oriented
• Assertive & Resilient
• Ability to multi task
• Influencing skills
• Proactive
• Clear, timely and effective communication skills both verbally and in writing

Qualifications

• Completed CPIM or APICS will be an advantage
• Diploma or degree in Supply Chain
• Recognition is given to Prior Learning and practical experience

Knowledge & Experience

Required:

• SAP Experience and master data knowledge
• At least 3 years’ experience within vaccine/ biotech/ Pharmaceutical industry or within a similar position.
• Exposure to pharmaceutical manufacturing environment

Preferred:

• SAP Key User Experience
• Knowledge and experience in production and manufacturing environment
• Knowledge of Pharmaceutical related legislation
• Project management experience

Other requirements

• After hours availability, reliable transport, ability to travel nationally and internationally.
• All positions will be filled in accordance with our Employment Equity policy as The Biovac Institute is committed to the pursuit of excellence, diversity and redress. We encourage those living with disabilities to apply.

Interested persons to kindly submit their CV’s to [email protected] by close of business 15 September 2017.

Kindly note that by submitting your application for this career opportunity you agree that Biovac may use your application for the purpose of the recruitment and selection of the said position and this information may be shared with the relevant stakeholders in the business

If no correspondence has been received within 3 weeks of the closing date, applicants should consider their applications unsuccessful.