Production Planner
Thermo Fisher Scientific

Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions
Office

Job Description

Location/Division Specific Information

Our Cincinnati site is a Center of Excellence for specialized oral solid dose manufacturing and pharmaceutical drug development within our Pharma Services Group (PSG).

How Will you make an impact?

You will be the owner and point of contact for your respective department to build, maintain, and complete demand plan, inventory plans, and/or forecasts to enable the site to meet site goals. To accomplish this, you will facilitate production planning scheduling meetings to ensure alignment across departments and communicate outputs and updates to site leadership.

What will you do?

• Plans, coordinates, and controls assigned finished goods, bulk product, supporting materials, and workflow to achieve high Client Service levels, lowest inventory investment, and highest plant efficiency.
• Leverage all available data, tools, and resources (SAP Planning System, Taylor Shop Floor scheduling system, etc.) to create inferences, assumptions, and forecasts to meet scheduled commits.
• Acts as the central planning focal point for assigned project portfolio and serve as the primary planning contact for the lifecycle management of commercial products and product development transfers.
• Accountable for sales unit forecasts, master scheduling planning (process orders), material requirements, batch material readiness, production scheduling (dispatch list) through follow up of execution for manufacturing/ packaging batch approvals, carrier coordination and on-time shipment of product.
• Collaborate with cross-functional department representatives to maintain a relationship-based influential partnership and build and maintain customer allegiance.

• High School Diploma or equivalent is required.
  
  Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university is preferred
  

• 1-year professional work experience in a manufacturing or related environment is required.
• Supply chain planning and/or pharmaceutical industry experience preferred.

• Experience in enterprise business systems and business software such as SAP.
• Ability to inspire, foster innovation, and collaborate effectively across cross-functional teams.
• Possess a customer-centric mentality coupled with the ability to network and build relationships.
• Action-oriented teammate who is a motivated and enterprising problem solver.
• Must be diligent, organized, and able to prioritize multiple tasks effectively.