Senior Planner

We are a specialty vaccine company that develops, manufactures, and commercializes prophylactic vaccines for infectious diseases addressing unmet medical needs. Our team is committed to making a positive impact on global public health.

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Planner to join our planning and logistics team. As a Senior Planner, you will be responsible for coordinating and optimizing planning schedules across multiple product lines to ensure the efficient and timely manufacture of finished goods to supply to customers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Produce capacity plans to enable forward planning of manufacturing areas (site & CMO's)
• Coordinate workflow for multiple products
• Plan and prioritize to ensure maximum performance and minimum delay
• Provide site/companywide visibility of plans, providing visibility of up-and-coming activities for the weeks and months ahead
• Ensure daily planning team and weekly planning meetings keep momentum, stay positive and productive, and ensure open actions are followed through to completion
• Feed changes to plan into Master Production Schedule / Supply plan & MPS
• Be a key liaison with internal stakeholders to plan and forecast samples coming from manufacturing
• Take the lead at the weekly planning meeting (for your respective planning area)
• Monitor jobs/testing/tasks/trackers to ensure activities will finish on time and within budget (analyze data on material consumption, monthly reporting BOM v Actual, lead-times, number of finished tests / products, on time delivery, percentage of defectives, OTIF etc)
• Address issues when they arise, aiming for minimum disruption
• Obtain output information (number of finished tests/products, on time delivery, percentage of defectives etc) ensuring plans and ERP aligned maintaining Sox compliance
• Prepare and submit status and performance KPI reports
• Support and drive effective communications and execution of tasks through daily group planning meeting
• Create 'what if' scenarios based upon operational requirements, maintain capacity analysis tools, and use these tools to support our resource, materials, planning activities, and document effectively
• Maintain planning tools to provide visibility of tasks and progression reporting back to planning group and maintain effective site-wide communication
• Coordinate external service providers' expectations on planning activities for shutdowns and servicing
• Take the lead on managing and controlling usage on materials at CMO's, feeding back into the planning and supply chain function, setting and controlling min/max based on usage
• Raise requisitions for services and obtain appropriate signatory for external activities
• Effective management of QMS (e.g. deviations, CAPA, and change controls)
• Provide support to the department and contribute to an environment of energy, enthusiasm, empowerment, continuous improvement, and motivation
• Monitor capacity and utilization through weekly planning meeting
• Be proactive by looking for improvement opportunities, encourage coworkers to have good work ethic, taking pride in their work to ensure the planning team maintains professionalism with clear communication and becomes a successful planning team for Valneva
• To undertake any other duties as requested by the line manager in accordance with company requirements

Requirements:

• Relevant cross-functional work experience in a regulated industry
• Strong business knowledge and commercial acumen with the ability to focus and prioritize critical tasks
• Experience working within a complex Manufacturing/Engineering/QC/QA/Logistics/Planning/SCM environment with external CMO planning experience
• Experience of the production of high-level programs with complex inter-dependencies
• Ability to work competently with Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint
• ERP System Experience
• Experience working with APS system advantageous

Benefits:

• Stock Options
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Gym membership OR fitness allowance
• LinkedIn Learning
• Many others included