Production & Material Planning Head

​Professional  |  Permanent  |  Full-time  |  On-Site​

Our people in Manufacturing & Global Operations share two priorities: getting things done and making things better. If you’re a dynamic person with a positive mindset, you’ll fit in well here. It’s an international team with a powerful spirit of collaboration. Together, we make sure our products meet the highest standards of quality by constantly searching for ways to improve at every stage of our value chain – from the raw materials we buy through to the logistics network that brings our medicines to patients. Join our team and help us make an even bigger contribution to Grünenthal’s future.

What the Job looks Like: 
Each day you’ll enjoy a variety of Challenges, such as: 
•    Responsible for short term and medium-term site capacity planning, including material requirement planning  
•    Plan and prepare production schedules for manufacturing through schedulers, develop and implement production planning policies, standards, guidelines, technology and procedures
•    Plan and prepare supply plan through Supply Network planners in order to balance supply and demand, and bring transparency of risks and opportunities to the S&OP/ IBP process
•    Participate in S&OP forums as applicable as well as develop and project to deliver continuous improvement in KPI’s
•    Manage production planning and set clear performance standards to hold people accountable for results, deliver customer service goals, optimize inventory investments, and meet production requirements, safety targets, and non-conformance / quality improvement goals, build cross-functional and cross-departmental support, fostering overall group effectiveness
•    Coach and guide teams / individuals to mine data from appropriate systems and able to carry out complex analysis for ad-hoc business requests
•    Develop, coach and guide team of planners and team leads in the execution, strategies and realization of departmental and company goals, advances succession planning by holding career conversations with staff 
•    Provide clear leadership for site team and accountable production planning representative on the plant leadership team

To make the most of this role and truly thrive, you should have:
•    University degree in Business administration, Supply Chain or comparable
•    Strong experience in supply chain, ideally in a pharmaceutical environment
•    Track record of experience in corresponding roles and experience in leading a team in a highly matrixed organization
•    Fluent business english skills
•    Ability to influence and motivate others as well as advanced communication skills
•    Result driven and value adding: understanding and responding to customer needs, prioritizes, simplifies and acts efficiently
•    Desirable Lean six sigma / OPEXc knowledgement.

“As Head of Production Planning Quito Site, you will be a key driver in strategic and operational decision making of one of our most dynamic and growing manufacturing sites within our global supply chain. You will be part of a high performing leadership team within the Global Supply Chain Planning team and Site governance and lead a talented group of planners that are key cogs in our End to End planning process¨.