Senior MRP Planner (12-month contract) - #10513080

Description:

Cilag AG, a member of the Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies, is recruiting for a Senior MRP Planner! Located in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, this role is a 12-month contract.

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are less invasive, and solutions are personalized. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/.

The site in Schaffhausen with its strong R&D organization is uniquely positioned in the Large Molecule Platform Manufacturing Network to bring the most innovative break-through medicines fast to market.

Are you excited by the vision of building a world where disease is a thing of the past? Apply now and join us with this exciting opportunity!

The Senior MRP Planner ensures uninterrupted supply of direct materials to our production lines in time, quantity and quality and manages the relationship with assigned suppliers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Translate monthly plan cycle requirements into a supply plan and communicate to the assigned suppliers; manage the procure to pay cycle.
• Drive monthly S&OP supplier review to enhance supplier agility and flexibility and meet demand requirements while continuing to meet our inventory and reliability targets.
• Support resolution of Quality and Supplier Investigations in collaboration with quality teams, warehouse, and finance; ensure return or destruction of rejected materials.
• Proactively identify constraints or potential supply issues and report to appropriate escalation forums.
• Handle inbound material flow (freight, carrier, customs clearance partner, documents).
• Manage inventory of materials in scope (master data maintenance, slow moving and obsolescence, destruction avoidance, etc.), as well as phase-in, phase-out process.
• Drive continuous improvement projects simplifying processes, enhancing efficiency, deploying automation solutions, and leading our digitalization strategy.
• Train peers on new capabilities and become change agent.
  
  

Qualifications:

Education:

• Minimum of a Bachelor's/University or equivalent degree is required; Supply Chain Management degree or related Business field is preferred
• Supply Chain Certification (e.g. APICS) is preferred
• Continuous improvement and/or Lean training and/or certification is preferred
  
  

Experience and Skills:

Required:

• Minimum 4 years of relevant work experience
• Supply Chain Management experience (e.g., Planning, Logistics, or Manufacturing)
• Experience in a Planning/Purchasing role within a multi-national and fast-paced environment
• Profound knowledge of SAP MM (transactional and master data)
• Knowledge of Incoterms and experience handling carriers and import processes
• MS Office proficiency (particularly Excel, including pivot tables and large data manipulation)
• Strong analytical skills to translate large amount of data into clear business insights
• Excellent communication and presentation skills (written and oral) to connect and build positive relationships with internal and external business partners, and across various audiences & seniority levels
• Ability to influence others without authority and adapt working style to different personalities
  
  

Preferred:

• Minimum 2 years of Pharmaceutical industry experience
• Experience leading/managing projects end to end (including design, charter, progress reporting, documentation of lessons learned, etc.)
• Experience with Visualization tools (such as Tableau, Qlik, Power BI, etc.).
• VBA programming, Alteryx, and/or equivalent tools
• OMP knowledge
  
  

Other:

• Requires proficiency in English and German (oral and written)
• May require up to 10% domestic and/or international travel within the EMEA region, depending on business needs
• Requires the ability to work on-site a minimum of three days per week, with the option for two remote workdays, according to our flexible work policy
• This is a fixed-term assignment projected to conclude after 12 months from your start date
  
  

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