Senior Production Planner

Requisition ID: 70417
- Date: Jun 24, 2025
- Location: Singapore, Singapore, SG
- Department: Supply Chain
- Description:
At West, we’re a dedicated team that is connected by a purpose to improve patient lives that has been at the center of our Company for more than a century. Our story began when Herman O. West solved the problem of supplying penicillin in mass quantities to the US Government during World War 2. Through our work to deliver thousands of life-saving and life-enhancing injectable medicines to millions of patients daily, West’s indelible mark on the healthcare industry has just begun. A name started our story. How will yours help write our future?

There’s no better place to join an inclusive community of professionals with opportunities for lifelong learning, growth and development. Supported by benefit programs, we empower the physical, mental, emotional and financial health of our team members and their families.

We believe in giving back to help those in need in the communities where we live and work. And are equally committed to creating a healthier environment and planet through our sustainability efforts.

**Job Summary**:
This role is responsible for developing and executing both short to mid-term supply planning activities, managing end to end production planning process. It ensures alignment between customer demand, inventory targets, and manufacturing capacity. The scope of this role is appropriate for the experience level in revenue, quantity, scale, and/or complexity. Key responsibility includes managing production schedules, coordinating material availability, optimizing machine utilization, resolving scheduling issues, and collaborating across teams to ensure efficient and timely manufacturing operations. This role involves working cross-functionally with manufacturing, quality, engineering, supply chain, customer success team to optimize production efficiency and service levels.

**Essential Duties and Responsibilities**:
- Plan, coordinate production planning to ensure Production Schedule is in place to support customer order requirements, replenishment of safety stock and business goal.
- Maximize machines and tools capacity utilization to achieve Production Output plan, inventory goal and customer materials availability.
- Collaborate with Customers, Customer Success, Supply Chain and manufacturing in managing execution of customer orders inside and outside standard lead time for Make-to-Order items
- Manage/communicate prioritization requests between Supply Chain and Commercial Team; ensuring that requests are reviewed timely then tracking/communicating actions to complete final processing
- Identify excess/expired/at risk inventory reviews with commercial and operations function.
- Analyze production capacity constraints and provide support and recommendations for engineering projects, including tool qualification timelines, coordinating with materials team on raw material impact.
- Work closely with the production team to ensure timely clearance of MRB materials to support demand and minimize potential write-off risks.
- Monitor planning relevant master data for accuracy, ensuring consistent evaluations and delivering and maintaining KPI dashboard or reports on a regular basis.
- Evaluate short and mid-term planning runs for inconsistencies, troubleshoot, and provide direction to Plant Supply Chain to resolve issues
- Support quality investigations, assess impact, and collaborate with teams to ensure customer demand is met including identify opportunities to improve and streamline the planning process.
- Manage monthly Supply Chain Operations meetings with participate in supply chain related daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly meetings to review and focus on yearly KPI targets and monthly trends to drive actions
- Other duties as assigned

**Education**:

- Bachelor's degree in Supply chain, Operations Management or similar discipline

**Work Experience**:

- 5 to 8 years' experience in Supply chain, production planning in a highly regulated manufacturing environment.
- MRP-SAP PP module planning experience, master production schedules, rough cut capacity plans, and resource plans
- Strong excel and report development skills
- Strong analytical skills
- Ability to work independently
- Strong learning capacity
- Teamwork-focused mindset

**Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Abilities**:

- APICS Certified
- Lean, Agile or Six Sigma a plus.
- Project Management certification is a plus.
- Able to be aware of all relevant SOPs as per Company policy as they are related to the position covered by this Job Description
- Support and contribute in Lean Sigma programs and activities towards delivery of the set target
- Able to comply with the company’s safety policy at all times
- Able to comply with the company’s quality policy at all times.