Materials Requirements Planner (Biotech)
Today, Lonza is a global leader in life sciences operating across three continents. While we work in science, there's no magic formula to how we do it. Our greatest scientific solution is talented people working together, devising ideas that help businesses to help people. In exchange, we let our people own their careers. Their ideas, big and small, genuinely improve the world. And that's the kind of work we want to be part of.
The Materials Requirements Planner (MRP) is responsible for the coordination of activities required to ensure the consistent and adequate supply of materials necessary for production to support the site plan. The position will convert material requirements into a material plan, issue the purchase orders and work with procurement to ensure the timely availability of all materials within the existing inventory policies. The role will be the SME in SAP as it relates to materials planning and its interactions with other departments as related to materials planning in the support of production operations. The Materials Requirements Planner will report to the Supply Planner at site level.
Key Accountabilities:
• Perform all routine tasks to convert planned order requirements into material plans through the proper SAP interfaces.
• Liaise with Supply Planner and Schedulers to ensure all material plans are up to date and responsive to changes in material requirements while identifying issues and offering proper remediations.
• Creation and maintenance of all material planning parameters in SAP in a timely manner.
• Liaise with procurement to agree conversion of the material requirements plan into Purchase Orders.
• Expediting material availability through liaison with procurement and teams involved with inbound material processing.
• The Materials Requirements Planner will develop forecasts of material requirements in the proper time fence as dictated by the business unit to ensure supply chain efficiency and effectiveness in support of business goals.
• Creation and management of material related KPIs and measures to ensure accurate understanding of material availability and performance.
• Review and recommend of disposition of slow and expiring materials.
• Function as the SME for materials requirements planning in SAP.
• Adhere to all defined Safety and Sustainability requirements and expectations and seek clarification whenever Safety and Sustainability requirements and expectations are either unknown or unclear
• Promptly report identified Safety and Sustainability issues, problems, deficiencies, errors, incidents, and/or opportunities to management and correct where possible
• Stop work where deemed necessary to maintain safety.
Key Requirements:
Minimum Education Level Required: Bachelors
Preferred Field of Study: Supply Chain
Minimum Years Required Experience: 3
Preferred Field of Experience: Pharma cGMP
Every day, Lonza's products and services have a positive impact on millions of people. For us, this is not only a great privilege, but also a great responsibility. How we achieve our business results is just as important as the achievements themselves. At Lonza, we respect and protect our people and our environment. Any success we achieve is no success at all if not achieved ethically.
People come to Lonza for the challenge and creativity of solving complex problems and developing new ideas in life sciences. In return, we offer the satisfaction that comes with improving lives all around the world. The satisfaction that comes with making a meaningful difference.
Lonza is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a qualified individual with disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
