Head of Planning S&OP

Join our team at Scientific Protein Laboratories (SPL), a world leader in biosourced pharmaceuticals, located just outside of Madison, Wisconsin in Waunakee! SPL is an innovative biopharmaceutical leader with unique products and services supporting the pharmaceutical industry globally. For over 40 years, SPL specializes in the development and cGMP compliant manufacturing of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs). SPL has an exciting opportunity to join the team as the Head of Planning S&OP.

This position leads Sales and Operations Planning [S&OP] and Production and Material Control [PMC] across the SPL site. Supports the Chief Operating Officer [COO] in translating corporate strategy and the Annual Operating Plan [AOP] into SPL-specific strategies and initiatives and driving their implementation; supports annual performance goals setting, cascading, and achievement tracking; assists the COO with periodic performance reporting and special proposals to headquarters;

and communicates corporate policies and advances transformation programs within SPL, including management system development, process digitalization, and organizational and talent development.

Use sales forecasts and orders as inputs, with fulfillment of sales and customer demand as the primary objective; lead long-term supply-demand balancing across SPL product lines, support market-share and volume-growth targets, and coordinate open-order execution and delivery tracking.

• Lead the development of the annual and rolling 18-month capacity, output, and raw material charging plan. Build forward-looking capacity models by incorporating production line design capacity, equipment constraints, raw material availability, workforce capacity, maintenance windows, holidays, and other key operational factors, and coordinate cross-functional reviews, periodic reassessments, and timely plan adjustments.
• Based on AOP, rolling sales forecasts, capacity plans, and raw-material supply plans to design finished-goods inventory levels; set safety-stock and inventory limits; and lead inventory analysis, alerts, and consumption plans for near-expiry or slow-moving stock.
• Coordinate the S&OP meeting governance, agenda, and material requirements; organize cross-functional analysis of supply and demand, capacity, raw material charging plan, inventory, delivery, and quality risks; review meeting materials and drive follow-through and closure of key decisions and action items.
• Lead the development and management of standard order lead times; coordinate and resolve cross-functional differences in material preparation, production, testing, and release timelines; review order delivery date assessments and guide the handling and resolution of major delivery schedule issues.
• Lead the implementation of the make-to-order production model across products; coordinate with Sales to ensure product-specific demand orders are submitted; organize the review of delivery priorities and the corresponding production, release, and delivery schedules; and provide the reviewed plans to Sales
• Manage end-to-end delivery tracking for product-specific demand orders submitted by Sales and drive the execution and closure of all activities that may impact order delivery. Regularly integrate and analyze sales-production-supply-inventory business data reports for each product and provide issue and risk alerts.

Use product process routes and order demand as inputs, with timely delivery of each order as the core objective; coordinate order delivery-date feedback; develop and issue master production schedules and monthly production plans for each product line, and track execution.

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