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Job Purpose
As a specialist in materials planning, your primary responsibility is to ensure a smooth and efficient supply of materials in your scope to Singapore manufacturing facility. This involves all activities required to set up and operationally run the site operations from a material planning perspective, including onboarding materials, managing inventory levels, forecasting demand, and coordinating with suppliers and production teams. Your key duties may include:
Responsibilities
- Bill of materials: Be the owner of the Bill of materials, by setting up the bill of materials and keeping track of all changes
- Material Onboarding: Work effectively with procurement and quality teams to support on time materials onboarding according to project timelines. This activity will be one of your key roles in project phase.
- Material Requirement Planning (MRP): Work closely with demand planning teams to capture accurate forward looking production demands, perform timely MRP runs. Align material availability with production schedules, preventing production delays or bottlenecks.
- Logistics Coordination: Coordinating with logistics partners, carriers, and freight forwarders to arrange timely and cost-effective transportation of goods.
- Inventory Management: Monitor and control inventory to prevent shortages or excess stock, optimizing inventory turnover while minimizing carrying costs by defining the inventory strategy for raw materials.
- Supplier Relationship Management: Build and maintain strong relationships with suppliers to secure favourable terms, timely deliveries, and resolve any issues that may arise.
- Risk Management: Identify potential risks in the supply chain, such as shortages, transportation delays, or quality issues, and develop contingency plans to mitigate these risks.
- Data Analysis: Utilize various software tools and ERP systems to analyse data, generate reports, and make informed decisions to optimize material flow and inventory management.
- Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities for process optimization and efficiency enhancements within the materials planning function.
- Collaboration: Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including warehouse, production, and quality, to align material planning with overall business goals.
- Compliance: Ensure compliance with relevant regulations and internal policies related to materials management and procurement.
- Performance Metrics: Establish and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the effectiveness and efficiency of materials planning processes.
- Budgeting: Assist in budgeting and cost control initiatives related to materials and inventory management.
- Contribute to the set up and configuration of an ERP system and other required software solutions for material planning aspects.
What you have to offer:
Professional experience and skill:
• Solid understanding of material requirement planning processes; ideally with a minimum of 5 years experience in supply chain planning processes
• Minimum 3 years of experience in the pharmaceutical or biotech industries is strongly preferred
• Strong desire to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with evolving procedures with a proclivity towards building processes and capabilities
• Experience in working with ERP systems is required
• An understanding of GxP process and procedures is preferred
• Comfort operating in an environment with ambiguity and competing priorities
• Curiosity to ask questions and respectfully challenge the status quo
• Undergraduate degree in Business, Science or Supply Chain disciplines is preferred
• APICS certification is preferred
Competencies:
• Pronounced team & communication skills; Ability to be agile and effectively collaborate in a dynamic, cross-functional environment;
• High degree of conscientiousness and diligence
• Constructive work habits, flexibility, solution orientation, job ownership, quality awareness, and very good planning and organizational skills in a fast-paced environment
• Self-starter and learning capacity
• Sense of ownership and honesty (proactive handling of errors)
• Ability to navigate through ambiguity and rapid growth and adapt to change
• Strong problem-solving skill and being able to work at start-up environment and manage ambiguity and operate effectively
Benefits for you:
We offer a competitive compensation package which will be determined by the contract type and selected candidate’s qualifications and experience.
We are looking forward receiving your application.
