Pack Planner

Position Summary

Global Supply Chain Planner will play a critical role in developing and implementing mid-to long-term supply chain strategies and networks through a range of activities:

• performing Medium-Long Term Capacity Planning; looking at a 1-3 years business plan for assets in the site, balancing demand and supply, to optimize the delivery of goods, services and information from suppliers to customers.
• ensure continuity of supply for all products that fall under assigned portfolio, both for internal sites and external suppliers.
• collaborate and partner with the manufacturing sites (including external manufacturing) to ensure supply plans can be successfully fulfilled by monitoring capacity, key components availability and actively mitigating and resolving any product supply and/or customer service challenges.
• be responsible for achieving customer service objectives at the lowest possible total costs, including distribution costs, inventory and write-offs.
• execution of inventory policies, monitoring and control to meet company´s financial inventory goals,
• fulfil the on-time supply of Final containers and Finished goods at sites and local/warehouses according to service level agreements (SLAs).

Responsibilities
This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career. These responsibilities include some of the following:

Global Supply Chain Planner will play a critical role in developing and implementing mid-to long-term supply chain strategies and networks through a range of activities:

• Develop an optimal, achievable supply plan for a SKU subset, aligned to a manufacturing resource, or group of resources, for the full planning horizon according to demand, production capacity and availability of materials.
• Monitors system alerts for potential / actual supply issues throughout the global network.  Makes recommendations to provide timely resolution with minimum impact to customers.
• Responsible for master data settings for fields owned by planning.
• Specifically, for internal Sites, perform capacity levelling on period 6-24 weeks and leads the handover of the Supply Plan to Site Scheduling Team.
• Specifically, for internal Sites, and depending on portfolio accountability, coordinates with Sites data preparation for capacity review and leads the Sites capacity meeting and pre-SRM meeting as input for CCC (Core Commercial Cycle) forums (SRM and SCRM).
• In rare occasion to interact with quality team, engineering team and other functions in sites to ensure continuous alignment of capacity feasibility relative to the global needs
• Works with E2E Product Planning on product rationing/product allocations in case of unresolved unbalance between supply and demand.
• Interfaces with various levels of management, including Site Logistic Director, Value Stream Managers and Directors, Regional Managers, Engineering and Global Leads to gather intelligence to support decisions on supply plan priorities.
• Supports Life Cycle Management for product launches, transfers, divestments and discontinuations. Controls launch dates to ensure product availability in due time.  Controls timely clearance of discontinued products to minimize scrap costs.
• Collaborate on continuous improvement initiatives through problem solving.
• Evaluate supply planning performance and trends for its SKU subset, and investigates the root cause of issues of KPIs deviations and recommends actions to prevent reoccurrence in line with Segmentation principles
• Execute and support E2E inventory optimisation activities as directed.

Why You?
Basic Qualification
We are seeking professionals with the following required skills and qualifications to help us achieve our goals:

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Business, Engineering, Economics or related field.
• Minimum 4 years’ experience in supply planning, distribution planning or end-to-end supply chain planning.
• Practical Supply Planning experience required, preferably in Pharmaceuticals or FMCG environment including interaction with sites, regional commercial operations.
• Knowledge of SC processes and systems in a business environment
• Advanced analytical skills required
• Inventory management experience
• SAP APO or SAP ECC; Power BI experience
• Foreign language; Advanced English as mandatory.
• Strategic thinking
• Strong organisational, problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Awareness and ideally use of various improvement/problem solving tools
• Great Team Player, good interpersonal skills
• Ability to work well within a team environment and to work in a matrix organization
• In depth understanding of risk management within the supply chain
• Active listening skills
• Ability to overcome obstacles to solve problems to achieve Customer results

Preferred Qualification
If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:
- Master’s degree or professional supply chain certification (APICS, IPICS, Lean/Six Sigma).
- Experience in healthcare, pharmaceutical or highly regulated manufacturing environments.
- Experience with demand-supply governance and performance metric design.
- Proven track record of driving process improvement and master data quality initiatives.
- Ability to influence in a matrix organisation and manage complex stakeholder relationships.
- Familiarity with advanced planning tools, business intelligence dashboards, or analytics platforms.

If you have a disability and require assistance during the course of the selection process, you will have the opportunity to let us know what specific assistance you require in order to make suitable arrangements.

Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale.

People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.

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