Responsibilities

Manage Production Planning and Inventory Control for actives, excipients, packaging and labeling supplies.

Responsibilities include Managing

• The materials requirement planning (MRP) system;
• The issuance of purchase orders and internal requisitions of all actives, components, excipients, packaging and labeling supplies to support marketing and sales;
• The control of levels of inventories to insure customer service within financial limits.
  
• Manage the scheduling of production, the schedule of product deliveries, the transportation of raw materials and components to the appropriate manufacturers of finished goods.
  
• Manage the information, documentation and material flow to support in-line active production and testing.
• Track the status of all levels of production from raw materials through component deliveries.
• Act to ensure the smooth flow and shipment of goods and inventories to support marketing and sales
  

Support Demand Planning

• Build collaborative relationships with Plant personnel, Global Planning, and Distribution to support production requirements.
  
• Communicates with Managers of Manufacturing, Regulatory, Quality, Product Development, and Finance to ensure information is shared that could impact the schedule.
• This includes extensive contact and communications with outside subcontractors and the distribution center to keep up to date with delivery dates of products, components, and ingredients required for production.
  
• Manage the implementation of Oracle supply planning into the US factory. Identify issues and develop solutions and present recommendations to management.
  
• Maintain the Oracle Planning SOP??s for creation of batches, assignment of lot numbers, consumption of material, and shipment of Finished Product to ICS.
• This relates to product manufactured at FPG and TPM??s.
  
• Manage the control of non-inventory items used to support manufacturing and packaging.
  
• Maintain and report the weekly and monthly metrics for FPG regarding on time performance for Manufacturing and Packaging release adherence, and shipment of Finished Product to ICS.
  

Requirements

• College degree required, APIC Certification is desirable
  
• 5+ years of Supply Chain, Manufacturing or Materials Management.
• Experience in Pharmaceutical manufacturing is a plus.
  
• Experience in ERP (SAP or Oracle) is required.