Supply Chain Specialist

Senior Supply Chain Analyst

Billerica, MA - onsite 3-4 days / week

Hourly pay : $55.00

• Start date is ASAP
• Working with CMO’s
• They will be working with forecast and KPI’s and working with the materials flow from IBP to SAP.
• IBP : integrated business planning. Supply chain optimization, financial planning and analysis (FP&A) and operational best practices, powered by a companywide culture that's all about delivering the speed, savings and responsiveness today's consumers demand while managing risk.
• They must have, demand planning, SAP and IBP exp at a pharma or med device company.

Job Summary

This role provides analytical support to the Supply Chain leadership team to support decision making, identification, and measurement of KPIs, cost savings programs and other ad-hoc projects.

Focus areas encompass all areas of the end to end supply chain including forecasting, inventory, manufacturing variances and freight management for all of the portfolio.

This position reports to the Director of Supply Chain Operations.

Job Responsibilities

Responsible to collaborate with supply chain management team to support the development and performance to short-term and long-term forecasts ensuring alignment to strategic, regulatory, market, financial, and divisional goals.

Responsible to collaborate with supply chain management on overall supply chain effectiveness by product line to include but not be limited to inventory analytics to establish min balances, monitoring service levels to ensure OTIF goals are achieved.

Responsible for vetting monthly Expired, Excess and Obsolete (EE&O) review.

Provide information to management team on business performance and KPI trends by performing quantitative analysis, trending, and modeling of key operational data with recommendations for corrective / remedial action plans.

Follow through to completion or implementation of these plans.

• Perform strategic, qualitative and quantitative analysis for programs and operational areas using research, data and analytics to resolve highly complex issues that require significant probing, analysis, and / or interpretation.
• Support efforts to create and deliver Executive Summary, KPI and other senior level reporting on a weekly / monthly / quarterly basis.
• Build and validate data, simulation and optimization models that diagnose supply chain problems, run scenarios and simulations, and identify best or optimal solutions
• Support Master Data Management activities including Item Master, Facility Master, Warehouse & Location Master, Bill of Materials, Routings, and Cycle Count table set ups and maintenance as a back-up.
• Provide simulations for each type of change and the impact to manufacturing variances, inventory levels, and budget. As required develops test plans and ensures testing is successfully executed ensuring a smooth transition of system optimizations to production environment.
• Generate and present inventory storage capacity analysis to optimize space utilization as part of the annual planning process.

Ensure adequate storage capacity is planned inclusive of off-site contingency plans.

Education & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain, Operations or Finance with 5+ years of related experience in a position directly related to supply / manufacturing planning
• Comprehensive understanding or all Supply Chain dynamics, processes and workflow in a batch manufacturing environment, including Forecast Source Make / Buy Deliver cycles
• Excellent knowledge of Supply Chain Management including Inventory management concepts, particularly the role of shelf life and temperature-controlled material in a cGMP environment.
• Self-starter with strong attention to detail and solid organizational skills required.
• Ability to work in teams, sharing ideas, collaborating, and connecting in a hybrid environment
• Proficiency with Microsoft applications, excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Excellent understanding of global supply chain planning as well as financial, strategic and analytical skills
• Experience in multiple manufacturing site and / or contract manufacturing environment desirable
• Strong Excel skills required
• APICS certification is a plus
3 days ago