Supply Planning Excellence Lead

6 months ago

Slough, United Kingdom Indivior Full time

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Supply Planning Excellence Lead

Title: Supply Planning Excellence Lead

Reports To: Head of Global Demand and Supply

Location: Slough, UK (3-days/week collaborative model)

Direct Reports: 0

Indivior is a global specialty pharmaceutical company working to help change patients' lives by developing medicines to treat substance use disorders (SUD) and serious mental illnesses. The name is the blend of the words individual and endeavor, and the tagline “Focus on you” makes the company’s commitment clear. It represents and empathizes with the often-difficult journey each individual patient takes to overcome the challenges of addiction and mental illness.

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The scope of the Supply Planning Excellence Lead is to manage people, processes, and systems across the sub-contracting network for the Category.

The Supply Planning Excellence Lead is charged with making decisions that impact mid to long term supply plans and communicating those decisions to stakeholders, as well as identify and resolve plan variances, risk, and opportunities. This is all to be done within the Category for global markets. This role is responsible for supervising and developing the Supply Planning team. This role manages and facilitates the Supply Planning monthly and weekly processes, as well as contributing or leading to special projects and other supply chain and business strategy initiatives. This role contributes to annual and strategic planning and direction setting for the Supply Planning team.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
The responsibilities of this job include, but are not limited to, the following:

- Drive for best practice Supply Planning processes with a constant challenge on the status quo
- Develop and formalise Supply Planning processes and inputs to bring insight into key meetings
- Support the continuous development of the supply planning function and roadmap - i.e. next generation S&OP
- Align processes, organizational roles and technology
- Collaborate with Demand Planning Manager on decisions on finished good inventory targets incorporating demand and supply variation factors
- Align and optimise raw material inventory targets
- Challenge, shape, edit and bring recommendations to support the consensus supply plan
- Be the face of the Supply Planning team; Confidently communicate with senior stakeholders and clearly summarise status to support decision making
- Be accountable for Supply Planning team key deliverables, ensuring all transactional activities in SAP, including POs, invoicing, goods receipts are executed in a timely and flawless manner
- Lead, design and develop insightful internal and external KPIs to drive supply excellence
- Accountable to lead, develop and manage a collaborative planning cycle with internal indivior functions and also CMO/CPOs to drive continuous improvement. Ensuring numbers are aligned and presenting the forward-looking plan to senior management.
- Build and maintain relationships with internal functions and CMO/CPO partners; pre-align on key discussions and decisions as necessary
- Lead projects to support Indivior’s growth and efficiency agenda
- Act as SME for supply: Support all existing and new product developments to ensure on time launches and 100% supply to patients.
- Ensure Supply Planning team strictly adhered to processes and GxP compliance

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
**Education**:

- University degree or similar relevant qualifications/experience

**Experience**:

- Indirect people management
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in Supply Planning or similar supply chain role (pharmaceutical company preferred)
- Detailed knowledge of planning methodology
- Experienced in subcontract manufacturing.
- Experienced in SAP and ideally IBP for supply
- Demonstrated superuser traits of optimising system capabilities
- Integration /divestment experience from a planning perspective desirable
- S4Hana Experience desirable
- Strong understanding of technology tools that enable supply planning and reporting
- Ability to use technology tools that facilitate collaboration with internal and external stakeholders
- Strong business and commercial acumen and knowledge of finance, sales, manufacturing, logistics and procurement functions

COMPETENCIES/CONDUCT:
In addition to the minimum qualifications, the employee will demonstrate:

- Proven record of leading, managing and developing teams
- Proven record of process improvement in complex, cross-functional projects
- Excellent inter-personal skills and ability to influence cross-functional teams & senior stakeholders
- The ability to assume responsibility for tasks and workload, and work using own initiative
- Ability to build good relationships and challenge constructively and confidently

BENEFITS:
Indivior is committed to providing a culture driven by guiding principles and top-tier benefits that match the importance of the work we do. The Indivior experience includes
- 25 days holiday plus public holidays
- Paid Volunteer Time Off

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