When you’re part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll do important work. And you’ll have the opportunity for continual growth and learning in a culture that empowers your development. With revenues of more than $40 billion and the largest investment in R&D in the industry, we give our people the resources and opportunities to make significant contributions to the world.
What will you do?
1. Review forecast generated and provide input on changes required.
2. Develop and analyze 12-18 month supply plan and present to leadership.
3. Complete supply planning elements and initiate data into ERP system collaborate with demand planners.
4. Partner with Product Leadership (MFG, marketing, R&D, commercial) and attend their planning and strategy meetings.
5. Collect information and collaborate with other functions such as Sales, Finance, and Operations to identify events that will alter demand and incorporate into the forecast.
6. Prepare for and lead Supply review meetings.
7. Generate scenarios considering products, past event data, customer/market analysis, cannibalization, substitution, and other relevant parameters.
8. Prepares agenda, presents materials, and facilitates monthly resource requirement planning and sales and operations planning meetings.
9. Provide detailed capacity charts for business review meetings.
10. Build and maintain Capacity Evaluation tool for BU capacity planning with future opportunities with 5-year outlook.
11. Ability to run and maintain multiple spreadsheets / reports.
12. Maintain, measure and improve accuracy of planning data.
13. Enable plan to deliver/improve service & inventory targets by delivering/improving forecast measures.
14. Provide demand input into the S&OP process to allow for clarity of risks and opportunities.
Preferred qualifications
15. 5 years Supply Chain experience in a manufacturing environment.
16. Experience in enterprise business systems and business software (specifically, SAP).
17. Experience with process improvement / operational excellence is preferred.
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities
18. Developing professional expertise, applies company policies and procedures to resolve a variety of issues
19. Demonstrated expertise in ERP/MRP Planning systems, including all relevant planning parameters such as inventory controls, replenishment, warehouse management and procurement functionality in ERP and best-of-breed software solutions is strongly preferred, with specific emphasis on SAP
20. High proficiency with Microsoft Office software (Excel, Word, Access, Outlook)
21. Solid understanding of planning and purchasing systems and of concepts of inventory flow throughout the supply chain
22. Strong customer service focus
23. Ability to develop and provide reports to satisfy ongoing inquires on capacity and product availability
24. Strong verbal and written communication skills to effectively communicate critical information
25. Good problem solving and reasoning skills to effectively deal with problems varying in complexity relative to job level
26. Embodies our Thermo Fisher values of Integrity, Involvement, Intensity and Innovation