Production Planner II

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

Job Description

Joining Thermo Fisher Scientific offers the opportunity to provide impactful work on a worldwide level. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide employees with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies.  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 meaningful contributions to the world.

How will you make an impact?

You will be the owner and point of contact for your respective department to build, maintain, and implement demand plan, inventory plans, and/or forecasts to enable the site to meet scheduled deliverables.  To accomplish this, you will facilitate production planning scheduling meetings to ensure alignment and communicate outputs and updates to site leadership.   This role is responsible for analytics and reporting within our supply chain department and collaborates with all related customer-facing functions to ensure customer satisfaction across the end-to-end supply chain.

What will you do?

• Develops, organizes, and owns the allocation of finished goods, bulk products, supporting materials, and workflow processes to ensure optimal client service levels, minimal inventory investment, and maximum plant efficiency.
• Leverage all available data, tools, and resources (SAP Planning System, PlanetTogether Scheduling System, etc.) to create inferences, assumptions, and forecasts to meet scheduled commits. 
• Acts as the central planning focal point for assigned project portfolio and serve as the primary planning contact for the lifecycle management of commercial products and product development transfers.
• Responsible for sales unit forecasting, master scheduling planning (process orders), material requirements, batch material readiness, shop floor scheduling (dispatch list), and ensuring the execution of manufacturing/packaging batch approvals. Additionally, leads carrier coordination and ensures the on-time shipment of products.
• Collaborate with cross-functional department representatives to maintain a relationship-based influential partnership and build and maintain customer allegiance.

How will you get here?

Education

High School Diploma or equivalent is required.

Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university is strongly preferred.

Experience

• 1-year professional work experience in a manufacturing or related environment is required.
• Supply chain planning and/or pharmaceutical industry experience preferred.
• Project Management experience preferred

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

• Experience in enterprise business systems and business software such as SAP
• Ability to inspire, cultivate innovation, and collaborate effectively across cross-functional teams.
• Possess a customer-centric mentality coupled with the ability to network and establish relationships.
• Motivated individual who collaborates well with others and is adept at solving problems.
• Must be meticulous, organized, and able to prioritize multiple tasks effectively.

Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship, now or in the future.        

Must be able to pass a comprehensive background check, which includes a drug screening.