Production Planner

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The Position

A healthier future. It’s what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love. That’s what makes us Roche.

The Production Planner is assigned to plan products designated for use in manufacturing replenishment, new product launches, and sales to customers. Analyzes inventory to ensure consistency with production plan and company inventory policies. Interfaces with Finance to report financial impact.  Works closely with internal teams to resolve technical issues. Plan and manage inventory to ensure levels of supply are within required parameters whilst achieving CDI goals and ensuring a smooth product supply. Identifies risk of materials that are coming to the end of life and mitigate scrap value where possible. Can create, edit and finalize reports for raw materials, scrap, expiration, audits, in addition to other report requests from management and other functional groups. Actively review safety stock levels, re-order points and planning parameters as needed for all materials. Prepare and lead in meetings on materials, production timelines, or delays on a weekly basis. Address, correct, and formulate plans for late shipments, quantity discrepancies, and other receiving/shipping related tasks both internally and externally. Prepare documents and presentations to planning and procurement groups on various occasions and events. Can write and/or revise department Standard Operating Procedures to ensure key processes are documented and compliant with regulatory and corporate requirements. May review SAP/MRP demands to convert planned orders to purchase orders. Can initiate and maintain material master data in SAP.

The opportunity:

• Support product launches alongside project managers, internal/external product development material requirements, and affiliate order requests.
• May be required to update Trackwise and SAP for implementation of revisions / changes.
• Analyzes demand and assumes responsibility for implementation of production plan to meet demands.  Interacts with all departments/levels to fulfill on time delivery/Right First Time company objectives.
• Develops and converts production plan for manufactured products into daily, weekly and/or monthly plan.  Creates and releases manufacturing orders to the production floor.  Selects appropriate lot of material for use in production of products. Works closely with the production manufacturing areas to ensure timely schedule execution and resolution of technical issues.
• Manages products to meet company’s financial inventory goals including inventory value, MOH, and write-offs.  Manage inventory to support internal value stream objectives.  Updates planning parameters such as lot size and safety stock/time as required to facilitate company on time delivery and inventory targets.
• Works with Operations Life Cycle Leaders and launch teams to meet all launch activities.  Attends new product launch meetings.  Creates plan for production and purchasing of items needed for launch.  Initiates MRP/Kanban related material master views required for launch activities. 
• Responsible for initiating and tracking all requests for inventory destruction.  Interfaces with Finance to report financial impact.  Responsible for reporting inventory risk to Finance on quarterly basis.

Who you are?

Minimum qualifications:

• Associate’s degree in Business Administration or related field, equivalent combination of education and work-related experience.
• Proficiency in SAP ERP.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of Lean concepts and how to apply lean principles to deliver lasting results.
• Has demonstrated successful experience in Kanban, VMI, and Consignment implementation.
• 6 Sigma or Lean trained or Certified (Black or Green Belt)
• Bachelor's Degree is preferred

Relocation benefits are not available for this job posting.

Pay transparency

The expected salary range for this position based on the primary location of Branchburg is 60,100.00 - 111,700.00 USD Annual.  Actual pay will be determined based on experience, qualifications, geographic location, and other job-related factors permitted by law.  A discretionary annual bonus may be available based on individual and Company performance.  This position also qualifies for the benefits detailed at the link provided below.

Benefits

Who we are

A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.

Let’s build a healthier future, together.

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