Supply Chain Network Planner

Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions
Office

Job Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you'll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world's toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

Location/Division Specific Information

Pittsburgh, PA. Network Planning Team, LPE, Laboratory Products Group.

Discover Impactful Work:

We are seeking a highly analytical and experienced Supply Chain Network Planner to join our team. As a Network Planner, you will be working directly with Senior Manager Network Planning where you will own global inventory health, anticipate network demand, and suggest Capacity investments to ensure production continuity.

In this role, you will lead, and own projects and activities linked to the Global Supply Chain strategy. The role will collaborate across the function and wider organization to develop targeted improvement plans for product availability, working capital optimization and efficiency improvement.

A day in the Life:

• Build an optimized E2E global supply plan for designated product categories, for our US east coast plants each month, for the medium and long-term horizon.
• Develop and maintain detailed Demand vs Capacity models at the Site and Network level to highlight gaps in supply and build action plans to ensure continuity of supply
• Contribute to improvement of key supply chain metrics like OTTP, Lead time, Product Availability and Inventory health.
• Develop recommendations for Stocking Strategy for the product portfolio in collaboration with site supply chain leaders.
• Own the monthly capacity/backorders calibration process for your respective manufacturing site/sub business group.
• Drive the monthly and weekly Scorecards review process and prepare root cause analysis for Top Inventory Increases and Slow Moving and obsolete inventory.

Keys to Success:

Education

• Minimum Required Education: Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, or other business management related field
• At least 3 years of supply chain planning experience required
• APICS certification preferred.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Strong problem-solving capabilities, with direct, applied experience in Supply Chain.
• Specific experience in Materials Management and Planning.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, both written and oral.
• Prior experience with Kinaxis preferred
• Ability to travel up to 25% of the time.

Benefits

We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus, healthcare, and a range of employee benefits. We offer employment with an innovative, forward-thinking organization, and outstanding career and development prospects. We offer an exciting company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation!