Site Planning Lead

6 months ago


Macclesfield, United Kingdom AstraZeneca Full time

**Site Planning Lead**

**Macclesfield, UK**

**About the role**

Sourcing and Supply within UK Operations manages the material flow through the factory, enabling our packaging and processing areas to produce stock for customer orders. Post manufacture, the department also manages all product storage and shipment to over 100 countries globally. Divided into a number of departments, the function plans all aspects of the manufacturing process, liaising closely with our procurement team, inbound and outbound warehouses, line support teams and customer and distributor liaison. It is therefore vital that systems are managed and controlled in an efficient and cost effective manner.

The Site Planning Lead, reporting into the Head of Sourcing & Supply is a member of Sourcing and Supply Leadership team, and drives the supply strategy within their sphere influence with UK Ops, and colleagues in the Global functions.

The Site Supply Planning Lead is responsible for the definition and design of the End to End supply chain on site for either the Zoladex brand and flow or products manufactured by PET Packing at UK Operations. Evaluation of demand/supply scenarios, risk management implications and performance choices with associated costs, including cost of goods sold, are part of the accountabilities.

The Site Planning Lead manages a team of Production Planners and Capacity Manager(s). There may also be other technical planning roles in the team to support the site planning process.

The team is responsible for creating & maintaining an optimised executable production schedule for the frozen and firm horizon at the most detailed process step level. Manage master data to ensure accurate capacity planning and lead times for assigned assets. Monitor closely actual production status for the resources in scope, monitor plan adherence (production, QC, QA & Logistics.) Identify and address potential short-term supply constraints and delays. (equipment capacity, labour, materials, etc.) Collaborate with global planning and site functions to ensure both excellent customer service and efficient production.

Each Planner holds responsibility for a small portfolio of production lines/areas, therefore building relationships with the Line Production Team Leaders and associated operators is vital to ensure success. There is also significant responsibility placed upon planners to ensure plans are communicated with the NSP:s, as well as the inbound procurement and warehouse teams.

Success in the Site Planning Led role relies on collaboration, project & stakeholder management & leadership capabilities developed through academia and learnings/experiences leading local & global team including the team of supply chain professionals.

The role of the Site Planning Lead is to ensure the Planners identify optimum planning sequences and scenarios to ensure customers are supplied with product in a cost and time effective manner. Customer service needs to be balanced at all times with Quality and Cost.
- Accountable for an Optimized Production Schedule for given assets and the execution of the plan.
- Accountable for maintaining the site wall to wall synchronization and maintenance of Capacity Master data.
- Point of escalation for Global Planning Team and leads the site input in the Global Supply trade-off decisions.
- Represents Sourcing & Supply in the PET leadership team. Develop Collaborative relationships with all key stakeholders, to ensure the smooth flow of information, materials and manufacturing plans, allowing the assets to focus on manufacture as efficiently and effectively as possible.
- Lead, maintain and develop a high level of planning expertise based on the latest SAP enhancements, global planning initiatives and continuous professional development. Contributes to, succession Planning by creating a pool of future potential Planners.
- Represents the Site at Global/Regional Network forums, and ensure that the Planning Team are fulfilling the expectations of Global Supply Chain as well as contributing pro-active improvements / ways of working / and the development of processes that other sites may benefit from.
- Accountable for integrity and accuracy for relevant master data in SAP ECC for the assigned assets and associated products and is aligned to the Global standard format.
- Role models compliance with and improvement of global standard ways of working, along with root cause analysis to fully understand compliance failures and the implementation of steps to prevent recurrence.

**Overall Fit**

Optimising the supply chain demands an entrepreneurial mindset, and the agility to successfully navigate change and complexity.

The activities and responsibilities in this job will offer job satisfaction for those individuals who enjoy the following:

- An action oriented environment where your contribution is highly visible and impactful
- Leading teams through ambiguity and challenge
- Working as part of a matrix organisation, d


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