Supply Planning Manager

The Global Supply Planning Manager is a key role within the Global Supply Chain organization at Alexion Pharmaceuticals. As Alexion continues to expand its commercial portfolio and increase complexity, this role will play an important part in handling and leading the day-to-day and medium-term supply chain planning activities for a portfolio of products. Collaborating with the strategic planning team, internal/external sites, quality, regulatory, and NPI planning groups, the successful candidate will handle Supply Chain Planning activities to formulate a master production schedule(s) to meet demand requirements, budget/forecasts timelines, and maintain stock levels to agreed targets within markets. As part of the Global Planning team, you will be expected to have confirmed supply chain operational expertise, strong leadership, and excellent collaboration skills. Direct experience in handling end-to-end Large & Small molecule planning is critical. This is a tremendous opportunity for a candidate with strong business acumen coupled with intellectual curiosity to drive and influence the business.

Accountabilities

• Facilitate cross-functional Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) and Sales and Execution (S&OE) processes focusing on maintaining patient supply, taking into account agreed in-market targets and regulatory constraints as per the monograph.
• Implement and maintain product parameters across the network within OMP to drive replenishment and resulting inventory at decoupling points and in markets based on market demand and agreed targets, while maintaining specific OMP master data.
• Maintain target inventory levels for DS/DP/FP in the short/medium term horizon, ensuring inventory is available at the right time and location to allow for efficient planning and production adhering to our values of speed, growth, and agility.
• Responsible for batch allocation to meet base plan aligned to monograph and regulatory approvals, maintaining ring-fenced inventory where necessary.
• Project and control inventory across the entire supply network within established guidelines, working with finance and other groups to minimize any risk of obsolescence. Work towards automation of system reporting and scenario planning.
• Analyze the portfolio of products using scenario modeling, taking into account internal and external factors. Ensure alignment with company objectives, manufacturing functions, and regulations.
• Anticipate and supervise potential problems, taking actions to mitigate any risks or issues, troubleshoot specific challenges, facilitating and actively contributing to cross-functional meetings – following agreed critical issue paths to communicate, inform and align on solutions or alternative scenarios with all collaborators.
• Drive critical issues, mitigations & hyper care activities when required to ensure no risk to patient supply.
• Be the point of contact for critical issues and drive production alignment meetings with Internal sites and External Manufacturing & Operation (EM&O) through monthly MPS meetings and facilitate creation of Purchase Orders as per latest contractual commitments.
• Provide updates to Clinical on manufacturing/batch allocation and amendments to schedules.
• Lead and report on Network Performance, critical metric Tracking, risks & issues as part of weekly/monthly reports. Implement action plans to improve results of critical metrics associated with project planning and reporting ongoing progress.
• Partner with other areas within Alexion to work on lean initiatives, streamlining processes, implementing efficiency improvements across the value chain as part of project Core.
• Develop close working relationships at all levels of the Company and in all departments to ensure the best supply planning operation that supports the business.
• Complete professional activities in compliance with cGMP guidelines.

Essential Skills/Experience

• Third Level Degree qualification in a relevant subject area is desired.
• Over 7 years of experience in Supply Planning, experience in long-term planning or related field
• Advanced level in MS Excel and intermediate level in other MS applications essential
• Advanced analytical skills and high attention to detail essential
• Strong knowledge of Supply Chain Planning concepts and strategies
• Prior experience with Advanced Supply Chain Planning Systems essential
• Knowledge of planning processes and distribution planning principles

Desirable Skills/Experience

• Ability to cope with fast-paced and dynamic business environment
• Prior SAP functional skills are preferred but not essential
• Familiarity with concepts of cGMP
• Ability to communicate and lead cross-functional projects

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