Supply Chain Analyst II

Title: Supply Chain Analyst II
Location: Cambridge, MA
Duration: 6 Months+ Possible Extension

Notes:

• Onsite
• Education: BA in Business Administration, Engineering or Supply Chain
• Must-Have Experience with: Supply Chain Planning, Kinaxis, APICS Certification
• Preferred Experience: SAP, Pharmaceuticals
• Work Experience: 3-4 years (industry)

Main Responsibilities & Accountabilities:
The main purpose of a Product Planner is to ensure that market demands are for a product are accurate, and met by supply along the IBP and S&OE Client for commercial and new launch products including ramp up phase.

Job Purpose
• E2E Supply Chain Planning: Executes IBP and own S&OE Client ensuring product balancing between demand & supply and gap remediation, responsible for net demand propagation, validation, and product deployment plans in Kinaxis.
• Master Data & Planning Parameters: Responsible for creation and continuous accuracy of products related master data and planning parameters in Kinaxis, ensuring alignment with E2E Product Leader's strategy/segmentation guidelines.
• IBP monthly cycle: contributes to the standard monthly and weekly E2E Planning process & decision loop in collaboration with local markets, GBU, Supply Planning and Site Planners
• Long term Strategy Support: Assist in strategic and budget planning, provide data-driven insights for long-term decisions, and incorporate strategic changes into planning systems.

Key Accountabilities
Responsible for End-to-End Supply Chain Planning for a product or set of products leveraging Kinaxis, DVSM and Plai.

IBP Client
• Drive ownership of product supply chain by validating net demand across all nodes (E2E) in Kinaxis on IBP Client for a product or set of products.
• Shares net demand requirements with CMOs via EM&S
• Decides on escalations on exceptions on demand replenishment and deployment rules to Supply Planners and/or Product Leader
• Ensure that the deployment plan is aligned to the Global IBP Plan endorsed by the Franchise, to include enforcement/escalation of policy, inventory targets and financial impact.
• Validates supply plan provided by Supply Planning for product(s) E2E and monitors closely safety stock health.
• In relationship with other departments, especially GSP and Market Supply Chain, simulate scenarios across the network to develop risk management plans, address large scale supply issues and in response to GBU demand scenarios.
• Find solutions for provided supply response scenarios (constraints) e.g. product prioritization.

S&OE Client
• Conduct Distribution Requirements planning: Finished Goods Packaging from markets to sites.
• Support production prioritization in case of crisis situation.
• Providing guidelines for sites to prioritize short-term issues.
• Understand the impact of risks/issues on the sites/CMO side on scheduled deliveries/FG availability.
• Report short-term issues impacting the IBP-Client via S&OE process.

Responsible for Products Inventory Management & optimization:
• Implement inventory strategy defined by E2E Product Leaders and set inventory planning parameters in system (Kinaxis) across all nodes at sites and CMOs.
• Monitor and adjust inventory levels in Kinaxis to meet market demands and minimize costs, leveraging DVSM as a strategic tool.

Responsible for creation and update of Master Data for a product or set of products in Kinaxis in accordance with the strategy defined by the E2E Product Leader
• Maintain proper product related planning parameters (e.g., BOD = Bills of distribution, inventory targets, PV=Production Version priorities) needed to support plans and ensure changes are made and formally aligned across the SC.

Monthly Planning Cycle – IBP decision loop:
• Support preparation for the Global Supply Review
• Maintain product performance metrics and drive corrective actions.
• Assess, coordinate, and implement mitigation plan from IBP.

Long term Strategy Support:
• Support the E2E Product Leader in strategic tasks such as strategic planning and budget planning.
• Provide data-driven insights and recommendations to facilitate long-term planning and decision-making.
• Incorporate strategic decisions into planning and systems (e.g., Product to be produced in new site a reflect in planning system)

About you:
Minimum Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Engineering or Supply Chain or equivalent
• 4+ years in manufacturing or supply in biopharmaceutical industry or equivalent
• 3+ years’ experience conducting data-driven analysis and communication findings to management.
• Fluent in English

Preferred Qualifications
• Advanced understanding and experience with the Integrated Business Planning and Sales & Operations Execution processes.
• 3+ years of demand forecast and supply planning management experience.
• Experience in launch and ramp up of new products.
• Knowledge of pharmaceutical manufacturing quality systems and regulatory submissions process.
• Knowledge of management systems and tools as Kinaxis, SAP, dVSM and Plai
• Experience of working with Financials and Budgeting
• 5+ years of successful experience and demonstrated ability and successful experience working in matrix environments (cross Functional and multi global location stakeholders’ management).
• Capacity to work transversally (with different functions such as market SC-BP, Site product planner, External manufacturing....)
• APICS certification