S&OP Demand Planning Leader
Charleston, SC, US, 29407
For nearly 75 years, Charles River employees have worked together to assist in the discovery, development and safe manufacture of new drug therapies. When you join our family, you will have a significant impact on the health and well-being of people across the globe. Whether your background is in life sciences, finance, IT, sales or another area, your skills will play an important role in the work we perform. In return, we’ll help you build a career that you can feel passionate about.
Overall Responsibility
The S&OP and demand Planning Leader will champion the end-to-end S&OP process to lead demand planning activities and maintaining forecast models in Tagetik, incorporating business intelligence gathered from sales, marketing, finance, distributors, and affiliates. Be a key contributor to the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process.
This role will be responsible for the development and update of the supply chain metrics, preparing for and participating in Executive IBP Leadership Review. The S&OP and demand Planning Leader will participate in Product Lifecyle review for all Microbial product family. Take lead in the development of Capacity Planning models and share responsibility for the Supply Planning for the Charleston operation's manufactured and purchased materials.
Main Duties / Responsibilites
- Manage monthly global forecasts, for all global sites, to provide cross functional teams the rolling 18-month SKU forecast.
- Lead the monthly S&OP discussions with both leadership and additional cross functional teams to discuss revenue forecasts, sales drivers, pricing updates, and gap analysis. Including the Executive IBP Leadership Review
- Assist in the maintenance and development of capacity models for key constraints as identified by Operations leadership for supply reviews.
- Utilize demand plan to generate optimized inventory levels and order recommendations in the planning software; compare Demand to Capacity over the planning horizon to identify imbalances.
- Adjust demand plans in the planning software based on information gathered from Sales, Marketing, Manufacturing and Microbial Solutions leadership insight.
- Actively manage forecast accuracy metrics, gap analysis (statistical vs financial forecasts), and month-end misses to engage with different teams to understand future business impacts.
- Understand volume drivers to highlight potential opportunities/risks that would impact the supply plan, ops/production plan, and raw material plan.
- Collaborates with Sales and Product Management to obtain consistent forecast inputs, expectations from new product launches + EOL transitions, and addresses various gaps among all forecasts.
- Responsible for the end-to-end data workflow. Various SAP imports flowing into datahub, managing ETLs, datasets + hierarchies, and import process within the datahub to export into our planning software.
- Collaborate with internal suppliers and internal customers on daily activities and special projects.
- Perform other Supply Chain related duties as assigned.
- Ensure that activity is conducted in accordance with Standard Operating Procedures and the principles of ISO, GMP and cGMP.
- Participate in various team meetings as requested.
- Learn and train users on Supply Chain Planning Software.
Other
- Ensure conformance with company, corporate and government policies.
- Ensure compliance with statutory requirements/standards.
- Promote good work practices and enhance constructive working relationships.
- Assist with the maintenance of an efficient Quality Management System.
- Carry out if required Quality Management audit.
- Contribute to continuous improvement.
- Ensure that all Health and Safety regulations are adhered to.
- Ensure a safe and tidy work area.
- Provide cover for other members of the team as and when necessary.
- Carry out other reasonable duties that may or may not be related to the job as requested by their manager.
- Must always adhere to the Company’s Equal Opportunities Policy in the planning and execution of duties.
The above description defines the general nature and level of work to be performed and is not an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities. Verification and validation of performance will be reviewed through the Appraisal system.
Compensation Data
The pay range for this position is $100,000 to $120,000. Please note that salaries vary within the range based on factors including, but not limited to, experience, skills, education, and location.
Competencies
About Microbial Solutions
Our Microbial Solutions business group has a comprehensive portfolio of endotoxin testing, microbial detection and microbial identification products and services is unlike any other, and has been purposefully designed to meet the complex and ever-changing needs of the industry. We help clients to ensure product safety and quality with easy-to-use yet robust testing solutions that satisfy regulatory requirements, support critical decision making and improve operational efficiencies.
About Charles River
Charles River is an early-stage contract research organization (CRO). We have built upon our foundation of laboratory animal medicine and science to develop a diverse portfolio of discovery and safety assessment services, both Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) and non-GLP, to support clients from target identification through preclinical development. Charles River also provides a suite of products and services to support our clients’ clinical laboratory testing needs and manufacturing activities. Utilizing this broad portfolio of products and services enables our clients to create a more flexible drug development model, which reduces their costs, enhances their productivity and effectiveness to increase speed to market.
With over 20,000 employees within 110 facilities in over 20 countries around the globe, we are strategically positioned to coordinate worldwide resources and apply multidisciplinary perspectives in resolving our client’s unique challenges. Our client base includes global pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies, government agencies and hospitals and academic institutions around the world.
At Charles River, we are passionate about our role in improving the quality of people’s lives. Our mission, our excellent science and our strong sense of purpose guide us in all that we do, and we approach each day with the knowledge that our work helps to improve the health and well-being of many across the globe. We have proudly worked on 80% of the drugs approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the past five years.
We’re committed to providing benefits that elevate your quality of life. Based on your position these may include: bonus/incentives based on performance, 401K, paid time off, stock purchase program, Health and wellness coverage, employee and family wellbeing support programs, and work life balance flexibility.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Charles River Laboratories is an Equal Opportunity Employer - all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
It is unlawful in some states (including Massachusetts) to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
If you are interested in applying to Charles River Laboratories and need special assistance or an accommodation due to a disability to complete any forms or to otherwise participate in the resume submission process, please contact a member of our Human Resources team by sending an e-mail message to crrecruitment_US@crl.com. This contact is for accommodation requests for individuals with disabilities only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.
Nearest Major Market: Charleston South Carolina
Nearest Secondary Market: South Carolina
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