Supply Planner CMO EU

Job Description

Our Company is a global health care leader with a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines and consumer health products, as well as animal health products.   Today, we are building a new kind of healthcare company – one that is ready to help create a healthier future for all of us.  Our ability to excel depends on the integrity, knowledge, imagination, skill, diversity and teamwork of people like you.  To this end, we strive to create an environment of mutual respect, encouragement and teamwork.  As part of our global team, you’ll have the opportunity to collaborate with talented and dedicated colleagues while developing and expanding your career.

Animal Health Global Supplier Management (AH-GSM) is an organization of approximately 150 professionals with the common objective of compliant, competitive, and innovative acquisition of goods & services from leading suppliers and partners that deliver a competitive advantage to our organization.  AH-GSM manages approximately $2B of third party spend through an organizational structure encompassing the global leverage of center-led categories and regional operating resources.

As part of the Contract Manufacturing Organizations (CMO) team for Animal Health, the Specialist CMO EU contributes to and drives the operational activities to ensure supply continuity of high quality and cost competitive products manufactured at the CMOs. 

This role will report to the CMO Category Lead EU within the Animal Health Global Supplier Management team and will be responsible for supply planning activities for finished products manufactured by CMOs in scope.  The Specialist CMO EU will therefore play an essential role in maintaining supply performance and continuity in the region.  Additionally, this position is responsible for conducting the necessary analysis to support the monitoring and measurement of process performance optimization within the region.

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Ensure supply continuity by planning, executing and coordinating orders, shipments and deliveries of products from the CMOs in the EU region.  Leverage existing systems and data to create visibility on supplier performance, financials and contracts.

Additionally, serve as an operational and technical resource for the AH-GSM organization and stakeholders in the Animal Health organization to: communicate and resolve purchasing systems issues; negotiate successful resolution to problems or concerns; educate internal customers about process and technology of supplier management functions.

Additional responsibilities may include as follows:

• →Supplier Performance Management – Supplier performance monitoring, root cause investigation, issue management, risk assessment and mitigation

• →Financial Analysis & Reporting – To prepare analysis and reporting of category spend, savings, compliance, and other metrics data on a regular (quarterly) basis. To support the annual budget / profit planning process for the category at the global level. To maintain financial reporting and management systems (including SAP) with up-to-date data on an ongoing basis.

• →Supplier Management – To support the execution of operational reviews of the supplier base and support the resolution of any supplier related quality or service issues
• →Sourcing – To create and execute RFIs, RFPs, and e-Auctions, together with subsequent structured information analysis wherever possible using electronic procurement processes.

• →Sharing of Learning’s – The incumbent will be expected to generate work of a world class quality and share and transfer this to colleagues throughout AH-GSM.
• →Continuous Improvement – Hold self, team members, and suppliers accountable to the intention of continuous improvement, and to lead and manage the measurement and review process to ensure delivery of expectations.