Senior Network Supply Planner

The Operations team partners closely with ResMed’s five business leaders to understand their needs then providing a variety of products and services to help them meet those needs including Customer and Technical Services, Global Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs, Supply Chain, manufacturing, logistics and distribution. Focused on enabling new product introduction and operating excellence, our team strives to improve time to market for new products and services, improve efficiencies in our cross-functional processes, and improve our supply chain through digitization and automation to increase value add to our customers.

Let’s talk about the team:
ResMed's Supply Chain Planning function is embarking on a transformation journey with advanced end-to-end Planning capability systems enabling dynamic collaboration with stakeholders, real time visibility and advanced analytics to optimize supply chain.

The role of Senior Network Supply Planner function is to be responsible for the manufacturing network oversight and all production plan operational activities including key deliverables such as planning and managing the day to day planning functions for manufacturing. This includes developing & maintaining master schedule with optimized production schedule for manufacturing lines, maximizing efficiencies and customer service levels whilst supporting back-order analyses, increased demands, maintaining inventory levels, identifying delivery problems and solutions and working closely with manufacturing partners for production schedule adherence to achieve business requirement.

Let’s talk about the role:
The primary objective of Senior Network Supply Planner within Supply Chain Job Family is to collaborate with other supply chain planning partners and other functions (Demand Planning, GSA, Manufacturing, NPI Project Teams and Logistics for example) to ensure that production and supply plans are achieved in the most efficient way.
- Provides global oversight of manufacturing plans, constraints and mitigation plans across ResMed’s manufacturing network, able to balance risks and take decisions to deliver results
- Ability to influence and connect with Supply planners remotely within the supply/manufacturing network
- Planning and creation of production supply plan for portfolios of Masks based on manufacturing demand requirement and customer orders (make to order)
- To ensure and validate the supply plan in alignment to manufacturing resources and line/tooling capacity, optimize production and minimize costs in resources and inventory
- Maintenance of planning systems parameters (product category, multiples, days of supply, planning routing, KB location setup) to optimize planning outputs and efficiency
- Drive innovation and digitalization initiatives to improve processes
- Creation, scheduling and adjusting work orders for production to optimize supply plan (network prioritization) and production control activities of material flow from warehouse to manufacturing lines
- Ensuring, managing and implementing engineering change notes dates so that Bill of Materials are up to date to plan supply assumptions
- Owning the Supply Review process (SRM) to identify and find ways to mitigate any supply constraints.
- Monitoring and escalating capacity constraints (short and long term) and managing stakeholder/customer expectations in relation to schedule attainment and inventory management.
- Performs work in a specialized area of expertise that requires knowledge of fundamental themes, principles and concepts. Typically requires a university degree or equivalent work experience.
- Serve as supply planning representative in cross functional teams for projects related to plan portfolios and new products introduction
- Builds productive internal/external working relationships.
- Occasionally leads the work of project teams and might formally train junior staff.
- This role will be expected to be on site at least 2-3 days a week.

Let’s talk about you:

- (Qualifications/experiences that are an absolute must for the position)
- Degree qualification in Business, Engineering or Science discipline
- Minimum 8+ years of experience in Materials Planning or Supply Chain Planning
- Strong knowledge and experience of ERP systems or other Integrated Planning systems
- Excellent Microsoft office skills with strong analytical abilities
- Experience in taking ownership and committed to delivering results of noticeable high quality
- Demonstrated ability to lead for simplicity, pro-active and can manage with high degree of independence
- Proven experience in leading cross-functional collaborations with key stakeholders (e.g Manufacturing, Demand, Logistics, etc)
- Strong interpersonal, communication & negotiation skills, multi-tasker and a good team player
- The individual must be fluent in written and spoken English. Written and presentational skills are essential.
- (Qualifications/experiences that are preferred for the posit