Pfizer Hiring for Production Planner at Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh Full Time

Our manufacturing logistics and supply team makes sure that customers and patients have the medicines they need, when they need them. You’ll help bring medicines to the world even faster by embracing challenges, imagining what’s possible and taking action.

What You Will Achieve

Working with a dynamic team of manufactruing collgues & other cross fucstional teams, you will play a critical role in delevering weekly plans.Your breadth of experience will be leveraged for increasing effectiveness of supply chain initiatives through monitoring key performance indicators and coordinating cross-functional work teams.

As an associate, your focus on the job will contribute in achieving project tasks and goals. Through your domain knowledge and commitment, you will create a collaborative teaming environment for your colleagues.

It is your hard work and focus that will make Pfizer ready to achieve new milestones and help patients across the globe.

How You Will Achieve It

Manage completion of supply-related or other assigned improvement initiatives.

Support the Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process, including the ensuring of all prerequisites needed for the monthly plans

Serve as point of contact to manufacturing teams for any questions related to weekly schedules & process orders.

Perform root cause analysis of In process inventory deviations vs. targets and of drivers and define improvement plans.

As a scheduler you need to Schedule orders based on unplanned and last-minute shift-by-shift capacity availability.

Group orders for changeover efficiency for assigned brands on assigned resources within 10 weeks (Pack) / 12 weeks (DP)

Use system reports to ensure all raw materials and components are projected to be available for production for assigned brands

Liaise with Operations for schedule attainment visibility and planned / unplanned downtime; Share the production schedule and priorities; Maintain up to date schedule visibility in handover tools

Convert and release orders in the system ; allocate material to orders; update any paperwork required

Create, schedule, and adjust downtime holds to maintain accurate system capacity reflecting detailed resource and labor availability

Use and leverage of Enterprise Resource Planning systems and reporting tools including Microsoft Office.

Work in a complex matrix organization in within a multicultural environment, balancing needs of different stakeholders.

Qualifications

Must-Have

Bachelor’s Degree

Good MS Office skills (Excel, PowerPoint, Word), System Application & Products experience

SAP Experience

Demonstrated experience in Supply and Logistics management, ideally in pharmaceutical industry or healthcare industry

Business analysis skills

Good oral and written communication skills to present complex issues, providing adequate level of information to all levels of the organization

Fluent in English, written and spoken

Nice-to-Have

Experience in other supply chain disciplines

Work Location Assignment: On Premise

Pfizer is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction in which it operates.

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