Network Supply Planner - Global Operations

Are you an innovative problem solver within supply chain who holds a desire to operate and lead in a global environment? If so, then this job as a Network Supply Planner is the role for you!



AstraZeneca is at an exciting time of new products and launches. We get to work with innovative and scientific products on our groundbreaking end to end supply chain, using the latest technologies and modern facilities. Here you can feel a strong connection to the patient. It's what drives us every day. We are united behind one mission - finding the best solution to put our patients first. Play a critical role in making this happen, delivering our innovative medicines all the way until they reach our patients.



Have the opportunity to play a role in evolving Supply Chain, reimagining how we do things, and creating a collective legacy. Unrivaled leaders in this space, we always do it the right way - with sustainable lifecycle management. There's no better time to take ownership and reshape the entire ecosystem, from technological advances to develop more ethical approaches to our work.



What you will do

The Network Supply Planner is an above site planning role, part of Global Supply Chain & Strategy, reporting to the Network Supply Planning Lead. In this role, you will have responsibility for planning a group of resources (internal or external). In this capacity, the role creates, develops, and maintains a cross-brand constrained production & capacity plan for assigned resources/products, while facilitating efficient manufacturing operations for the slushy and tactical horizon, according to the monthly planning cycle.



As part of these planning responsibilities, you will ensure that relevant resource supply constraints and events are modeled in the system. This role drives the Sales & Operational Execution (S&OE) process by facilitating the relevant meeting and reviews on a weekly basis. The role is a key player in the Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process by leading the supply consensus meeting with sites and Process Execution Teams (PETS), in which the role supports by providing necessary simulations to support decision making.

Essentials for the role

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Bachelor's degree required
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Minimum of 5 years of experience in Supply Chain Environment (Manufacturing, Planning)
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Advanced supply chain (inventory, capacity, and network) planning skills
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Digital savvy (data & system minded)
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Operational Experience with planning systems (ie. ERP/APS systems)
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Experience in managing and developing solutions for supply chain events
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Capacity management & modeling
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Understanding of supply chain planning parameters, master data, and master data integrity & quality.
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Experience in collaboration with the key interfaces within the end-to-end supply chain, with manufacturing, and between supply chain and commercial functions - experience working with third-party suppliers would be a bonus
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Excellent communications and collaboration skills are required to manage a multitude of customers and partners, both internal and external to AZ
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Proficient in using key Lean Tools
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Good language skills in both English and Swedish


Desirables for the role

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A degree or equivalent in Business, Logistics, Sciences, or Engineering is preferred, equivalent experience will be taken into account
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APICS / CSCP or equivalent certification
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Lean certification
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Robust understanding of and contributing to an S&OP process
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Commercial experience
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Leadership experience



Why AstraZeneca

If you want to make a big impact, this is the place for you. Our contribution to life-changing medicines is why people have been here for decades. We do it for the patients.