Network Supply Planning Lead

3 weeks ago


Macclesfield, United Kingdom AstraZeneca Full time

**Network Supply Planning Lead - External Supply & Manufacturing**

**Competitive salary & benefits**

At AstraZeneca we’re dedicated to being a Great Place to Work. Where you are empowered to push the boundaries of science and unleash your entrepreneurial spirit. There’s no better place to make a difference to medicine, patients, and society. An expansive culture that champions diversity and collaboration. Always committed to lifelong learning, growth and development.

Join the team where everyone feels a personal connection to the people that we impact. From our science labs to manufacturing at scale, we are committed to delivering at the highest quality. It’s inspiring and rewarding work, influencing every part of the product lifecycle to deliver life-changing medicines. To ultimately make people’s lives better - from patients and their families to all of us in society

**The role**:
The Network Supply Planning (NSP) Lead for External Supply & Manufacturing (ESM) is a Global line Leadership role within Global Supply Chain and Strategy (GSC&S) and is a member of the Global Supply Network Planning Leadership team.

You'll be accountable for leading a team of Globally-based Network Supply Planners to ensure effective constraining and balancing of the supply plan and an escalation point for unresolved network supply constraints.

The NSP Lead plays a key leadership role in a number of processes and forums including Supply Chain Council, Global Supply Chain and Strategy Tier and Regional Supply Tier forums.

You will play a pivotal leadership role in bridging the relationship and partnership between Global Supply Chain and Strategy and Regional Vice Presidents, leveraging the Regional Tier 5 forums to do this, alongside collaborating with the Regions on network synchronisation initiatives.

A true network leader, the role is also accountable for working with the broader Operations organisation to implement new processes and capabilities across the network to drive innovation, improve outcomes and deliver business results.

**What you'll do**:

- Lead the Network Supply Planners team
- Regional Leadership and Orchestration of demand and supply balancing synchronisation
- You'll be accountable for the Regional Strategy & Operational Excellence process including responsibility for regional supply prioritisation escalations
- Lead supply chain maturity assessment of GSC&S for network supply planning in sync with the MAKE and PLAN excellence teams
- Leadership of the supply and demand synchronisation process to drive execution performance management to deliver customer service.
- Ensure manufacturing assets at the regional supply sites are operating in accordance with the agreed global blueprint parameters & the right corrective actions are agreed & implemented where needed.
- Responsible at a site/regional level to ensure performance of the network meets required standards (supply commitment, optimised capacity utilisation, bulk plan adherence, bulk schedule adherence, bulk stock tolerance, bulk make frequency, to meet budget, lead-time and service levels)
- Responsible for business process management (operational and Manufacturing Excellence coordination work ) delivering a synchronised supply chains between bulk/pack/Markets.

**Essential skills & experience**:

- A degree or equivalent in Business, Logistics, Sciences or Engineering is preferred, equivalent experience will be taken into account.
- Significant experience in a Supply Chain Environment (Manufacturing, Planning) and Supply & Operations Planning process
- Line leadership experience

**Desirable**:

- Supply & Operations planning process advanced supply chain (inventory and capacity) planning skills
- Commercial experience
- APICS / CSCP or equivalent certification
- Lean certification

At AstraZeneca, we work together across global boundaries to make an impact and find answers to challenges. We do this with the upmost integrity even in the most difficult situations because we are committed to doing the right thing.

Are you already imagining yourself joining our team? Good, because we can’t wait to hear from you



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