Supply Chain Planner
- Recruiter
- ABCAM
- Location
- Cambridge
- Salary
- Competitive, DOE
- Posted
- 16 May 2017
- Closes
- 30 May 2017
- Sectors
- Procurement
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Supply Chain Planner
Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Salary: Competitive, DOE
Contract: Full time, Permanent
About the role - Supply Chain Planner:
The Supply Chain Planner will join the team at our Global Headquarters on the Science Park in Cambridge, this position will optimize stock and service levels for our products by determining quantity and timing of production and purchasing quantities. They will interface with internal stakeholders to balance global stockholding, costs and to influence capacity. This vital role will work across the business to ensure alignment on the above for the concerned product categories.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Responsible for Materials planning for several product categories, determining quantity and timing of production batches, optimizing standard trigger points and replenishment quantities to ensure that service level targets (Delivery on Promise, OTIF, Order Average Lead Time, Fill rate) are hit for manufactured product ranges at an acceptable cost
- Work with the Manufacturing and Logistics teams to support capacity planning
- Contribute to the company Sales and Operations Planning process
- Ensure that Inventory levels are optimised across raw materials, intermediates and finished goods, and work with other stakeholders to optimise stock levels.
- Working within the established production budget, ensure that the order backlog is kept to a minimum and that production of new and already established products is balanced appropriately
- Ensure communication of stock replenishment dates to customer facing teams; handle exceptions where stock does not arrive on time or to specification
- Work with customer facing teams to ensure that forecasting and demand management is optimised
- Contribute to continuous Improvement activities using lean/Six sigma methodologies
- Contribute to the move from Abcam's bespoke planning systems to Oracle Fusion Planning Central
About you:
You have significant experience in a supply chain role, particularly in material planning. You have a natural attention to detail, great communication skills and a background working with ERP software.
If this sounds like you and you'd like to be a part of a fast paced, growing business with the vision to become the most influential company and best-loved brand in life sciences please apply now!
Minimum Requirements:
- You will be educated to degree level (or equivalent) in related discipline or equivalent work experience
Desired Requirements:
- Experience in a manufacturing supply chain planning environment, or experience working in a biological or pharmaceutical manufacturing with a solid understanding of planning issues
- Experience using supply chain planning aspects of ERP systems such as SAP or Oracle
- Solid experience with Microsoft Office, particularly in Excel
- Proven ability to build effective relationships across all levels and functions in an organisation
- Must demonstrate the ability to communicate effectively and present findings and recommendations
- Experience meeting tight deadlines, prioritizing tasks and multi-tasking to achieve results
- Ability to creatively solve challenging problems
About Us:
Ever since 1998, when our founder, Jonathan Milner, started selling antibodies from the back of his bike, Abcam has aimed to help scientific researchers make breakthroughs faster. We now have offices and labs in the UK, the US, China and Japan, and as we continue to grow, we remain ambitious, driven by our customers' success and their research needs.
It's our goal to provide a world-standard in protein research tools, technical support and delivery. When you join Abcam, you'll join a global business with the passion and the vision to become the most influential company, and, best-loved brand in life sciences.
Our culture is our key differentiator. We believe in empowering individuals, with responsibility given at an early stage. The working environment is fun and fast-paced, collaborative and outcome focused, with a strong customer focus. In addition to competitive salaries, we can offer an attractive flexible benefits package which includes share options, a culture focused on well-being and opportunities for growth and development.
If you have the required skills and experience, click on APPLY and forward your current CV and covering letter, with salary details, explaining why you are a good fit for this role.
Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Salary: Competitive, DOE
Contract: Full time, Permanent
About the role - Supply Chain Planner:
The Supply Chain Planner will join the team at our Global Headquarters on the Science Park in Cambridge, this position will optimize stock and service levels for our products by determining quantity and timing of production and purchasing quantities. They will interface with internal stakeholders to balance global stockholding, costs and to influence capacity. This vital role will work across the business to ensure alignment on the above for the concerned product categories.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Responsible for Materials planning for several product categories, determining quantity and timing of production batches, optimizing standard trigger points and replenishment quantities to ensure that service level targets (Delivery on Promise, OTIF, Order Average Lead Time, Fill rate) are hit for manufactured product ranges at an acceptable cost
- Work with the Manufacturing and Logistics teams to support capacity planning
- Contribute to the company Sales and Operations Planning process
- Ensure that Inventory levels are optimised across raw materials, intermediates and finished goods, and work with other stakeholders to optimise stock levels.
- Working within the established production budget, ensure that the order backlog is kept to a minimum and that production of new and already established products is balanced appropriately
- Ensure communication of stock replenishment dates to customer facing teams; handle exceptions where stock does not arrive on time or to specification
- Work with customer facing teams to ensure that forecasting and demand management is optimised
- Contribute to continuous Improvement activities using lean/Six sigma methodologies
- Contribute to the move from Abcam's bespoke planning systems to Oracle Fusion Planning Central
About you:
You have significant experience in a supply chain role, particularly in material planning. You have a natural attention to detail, great communication skills and a background working with ERP software.
If this sounds like you and you'd like to be a part of a fast paced, growing business with the vision to become the most influential company and best-loved brand in life sciences please apply now!
Minimum Requirements:
- You will be educated to degree level (or equivalent) in related discipline or equivalent work experience
Desired Requirements:
- Experience in a manufacturing supply chain planning environment, or experience working in a biological or pharmaceutical manufacturing with a solid understanding of planning issues
- Experience using supply chain planning aspects of ERP systems such as SAP or Oracle
- Solid experience with Microsoft Office, particularly in Excel
- Proven ability to build effective relationships across all levels and functions in an organisation
- Must demonstrate the ability to communicate effectively and present findings and recommendations
- Experience meeting tight deadlines, prioritizing tasks and multi-tasking to achieve results
- Ability to creatively solve challenging problems
About Us:
Ever since 1998, when our founder, Jonathan Milner, started selling antibodies from the back of his bike, Abcam has aimed to help scientific researchers make breakthroughs faster. We now have offices and labs in the UK, the US, China and Japan, and as we continue to grow, we remain ambitious, driven by our customers' success and their research needs.
It's our goal to provide a world-standard in protein research tools, technical support and delivery. When you join Abcam, you'll join a global business with the passion and the vision to become the most influential company, and, best-loved brand in life sciences.
Our culture is our key differentiator. We believe in empowering individuals, with responsibility given at an early stage. The working environment is fun and fast-paced, collaborative and outcome focused, with a strong customer focus. In addition to competitive salaries, we can offer an attractive flexible benefits package which includes share options, a culture focused on well-being and opportunities for growth and development.
If you have the required skills and experience, click on APPLY and forward your current CV and covering letter, with salary details, explaining why you are a good fit for this role.