Senior Planning Specialist

2 months ago


Livingston, West Lothian, United Kingdom Valneva SE Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Planning Specialist to join our planning and logistics team at Valneva SE. As a key member of our team, you will play a critical role in coordinating and optimizing planning schedules across multiple product lines to ensure the efficient and timely manufacture of finished goods to supply to customers.

Key Responsibilities
  • Capacity Planning: Produce detailed capacity plans to enable forward planning of manufacturing areas, including site and contract manufacturing organizations (CMOs).
  • Planning and Prioritization: Plan and prioritize tasks to ensure maximum performance and minimum delay, ensuring that daily planning team and weekly planning meetings remain productive and focused.
  • Leadership and Communication: Lead the weekly planning meeting for your respective planning area, ensuring that open actions are followed through to completion and that effective communication is maintained throughout the team.
  • Performance Monitoring: Monitor jobs, testing, and tasks to ensure activities are completed on time and within budget, analyzing data on material consumption, monthly reporting, and other key performance indicators (KPIs).
  • Reporting and Analysis: Prepare and submit status and performance reports, providing insights and recommendations to improve planning and logistics processes.
  • Collaboration and Communication: Support and drive effective communication and execution of tasks through daily group planning meetings, ensuring that all stakeholders are informed and aligned.
  • Capacity Analysis and Planning: Create 'what if' scenarios based on operational requirements, maintain capacity analysis tools, and use these tools to support resource, materials, and planning activities.
  • Planning Tools and Visibility: Maintain planning tools to provide visibility of tasks and progression, reporting back to the planning group and maintaining effective site-wide communication.
  • External Service Provider Management: Coordinate external service providers' expectations on planning activities for shutdowns and servicing.
  • Material Management: Take the lead on managing and controlling usage of materials at CMOs, feeding back into the planning and supply chain function to set and control minimum and maximum levels based on usage.
  • Capacity and Utilization Monitoring: Monitor capacity and utilization through weekly planning meetings, identifying areas for improvement and opportunities to optimize planning processes.
  • Continuous Improvement: Be proactive in identifying improvement opportunities, encouraging coworkers to maintain a high work ethic, and taking pride in their work to ensure the planning team maintains professionalism and clear communication.
Requirements
  • Relevant Experience: Relevant cross-functional work experience in a regulated industry, preferably in a complex manufacturing, engineering, quality, quality assurance, logistics, planning, and supply chain management environment.
  • Business Acumen: Strong business knowledge and commercial acumen, with the ability to focus and prioritize critical tasks.
  • Technical Skills: Ability to work competently with Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.


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