Master Planner (Aspen Office In South Africa) at Aspen Pharma Group

Description

• 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.
• Optimize Factory utilization, Demand-, Inventory-and Supply parameters with customer expectations.

Requirements

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 minimize 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.
• Optimize parameters across the value chain to unlock value.
• Ensure that all units are aligned to produce an optimized 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 optimization 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 optimization

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

Background/experience

• 5 to 10 years’ experience in 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, PowerPoint and ERP system
• Solid understanding of S&OP/IBP
• Scenario planning, optimization and/or simulation experience
• End to end understanding of Supply Chain operations in Plan, Source, Make and Deliver

Competencies

• Ability to represent SAOPS 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.