Planner

We are looking for a Planner to join our team in Royston. You will have experience working in a planning role within a production company and experience working with an ERP system.

We are recruiting a self-motivated Production Planner who will be responsible for implementing the planning strategies within operations. The holder of this position will oversee the review and capture of the planning processes and procedures in line with the company quality system. The goal is to oversee the facilitation of new product introductions from project phase, to fully integrating the product into operations whilst ensuring on time to marketplace and without shortages.

**What you will accomplish together with us**
- Maintain Bills of Materials and production structures, working with Engineers and the Design Team.
- Create and manage production schedules which support agreed forecasts and delivery target dates.
- Ensure that production lead time is realistic compared with materials availability.
- Identify and expedite shortages in a timely manner.
- Assist in supporting business functions through advice and problem solving.
- Communicate proactively with internal customers.
- Control the sequence and priority of materials and services to be supplied to production cells across a range of products.
- Work proactively with Sourcing to solve existing or anticipated material supply issues including storage capacity planning.
- Ensure that unforeseen procurement delays do not impact manufacturing timescales
- Create, analyse, and publish monthly team metrics.

**What will convince us**
- Good standard of English and Maths.
- Experience working in a planning role within a production company.
- Experience working with an ERP system.
- Good knowledge of manufacturing processes.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and data management.
- Effective problem solving, communication and organizational skills.

**What we offer**

Our ambition is to simplify progress in life science research and the biopharmaceutical industry to help translate scientific findings into new therapeutics faster and more efficiently. So that more people can obtain access to better medicine. Over 16,000 employees at more than 60 production and sales locations worldwide are committed to this vision. And together, we have grown strongly over the past years.

Do you also want to contribute to our vision? Grow with us and benefit from working with a Global Player that has kept its familiar atmosphere:
**Opportunity for international career development**:A global network offering seminars and training sessions, expert and manager career paths

**Open and highly collaborative culture**: Mutual support within teams and working as equals, team spirit and international collaboration

**Work-life balance**: Working from home at many sites

**Intelligent working environment**: Working in smart buildings with the latest technology and equipment

**Ambitious goals**: Sartorius plans to double its sales revenue approximately every five years