Regional Supply Planning Lead

**Role Summary**

Reporting to the Regional Lead of Global External Supply (GES), the Regional Supply Planning Lead has overall responsibility for the supply of all SKUs related to a portfolio of external suppliers within the wider APAC region that includes Tier 1 Contract Manufacturing Organizations (CMO) and strategic suppliers.

The Planning Lead will lead and coach a team of External Supply Planners in the region who will be assigned a subset of those SKUs and CMOs. The incumbent will play an active role in identifying and addressing long term, medium term and short-term supply chain risks and is a change agent for supply chain continuous improvements and underlying value streams. He/ She ensures the visibility of upcoming supply and owns the communication to the cluster demand managers.

The planning lead is also accountable for the management of capacity planning at CMOs, Master Production Planning, Constrained supply planning and PO creations and will lead the respective discussions with Demand Planners to resolve supply shortfalls from CMOs. He / She will be a core member in any projects such as new product introductions, site transfers, packaging changes, format harmonization etc. to optimize supply and minimize business impact from a supply perspective.

Maintaining and building relationships with our key internal and external stakeholders and supplier network including the support of S&OP process and following through key supply/ capacity decisions are also the key operational activities of the Regional Supply Planning Lead.

**Role Responsibilities**
- Coach and lead a team of External Supply planners
- Establish and maintain long-term capacity and volume plans and drive the resolution of identified gaps
- Identify opportunities in supply planning, product formats, inventory management, campaigning strategy, to improve SCM performance in key areas such as reliability, lead times, responsiveness, cost, on-time delivery, inventory levels
- Coordinate the establishment and maintenance of Service Level Agreements with Sites, Markets and different service providers
- Define and maintain the supply chain setup and associated supply chain parameters to fulfill these Service Level Agreements
- Monitor site/supply performance against KPIs. Identify and understand trends in performance & identify opportunities for improvement.
- Provide the data to support the Global Supply reviews and follow up on actions
- Collaborate with site to understand root causes of supply issues, define and follow through corrective actions plans
- Analyze demand evolutions and its capacity impacts on a mid-term horizon (M+3 to M+23). Understand and influence capacity/bottlenecks at vendor versus demand pattern
- Simulate different scenarios on the production bottlenecks taking into account business priorities
- Provide a monthly Rolling Forecast
- Challenge production constraints to optimize the plans
- Validate the allocation of quantities into the regions; translate business priorities in case of production problems or shortages. Measure adherence versus allocations.
- Analyze the « feasibility of changing demands » expressed inside the frozen period
- Advise on and maintain key planning parameters to optimize the supply chain performance
- Champion standard ways of performing the planning, SCA evaluation,
- Develop baseline volumes for assigned products in support of annual site budget process and advice on volume sensitivities.
- Manage communications with the Demand Planners to ensure seamless and efficient flow of information between CMO and markets.
- Collaborate with site procurement & API Planning team to ensure alignment on long range API demand, site API inventory levels and short/medium API availability to support MPS.
- Monthly reconciliation of API inventory for SOX compliance
- Work closely with Category/Operations Managers to achieve streamlined operations

**Education and Experience (required)**
- 10 years’ experience in Supply Chain Management
- Experience in pharmaceutical and within a fast
- evolving environment
- Experience in people management
- Bachelors required, Masters or MBA preferred
- Proficiency in English

Technical Skill
- Deep functional knowledge and experience in Supply Planning and other aspects of SC incl. RCCP, Master Scheduling, Forecasting, Demand Planning and S&OP.
- Deep experience with ERP systems, prior experience with APO SNP is preferred
- Strong analytical capabilities, continuous improvement mindset
- Detail oriented, organized, reliable, resourceful with a relentless customer focus
- Excellent communication skills
- Team player, ability to collaborate cross functionally