Manager, Supply Chain Planning

Manager Supply Chain Planning

At Par Health, we believe great healthcare is built on getting the essentials right. We're looking for passionate, talented individuals who share our commitment to improving lives. With a global workforce, we lead with pride and purpose—prioritizing quality and safety while fostering a culture of continuous improvement, accountability, and teamwork. Elevating the Essentials isn't just our tagline, it's the higher standard we live by every day.

The Manager Supply Chain Planning is responsible for ensuring that the supply of the assigned product portfolio is available at the distribution center in the quantities required to meet commercial demand. In addition, this role acts as Subject Matter Expert (SME) in supply while understanding demand and market dynamics. The job holder is the key resource for implementing supply chain planning integration and optimization activities.

The job holder is responsible for the supply and demand planning processes and systems, including new product launch/commercialization. Planning will take place within an Integrated Business Planning Process (IBP), which aligns Operations, Finance and Commercial functions on demand, supply (production) and inventory plans.

Essential Functions:

• Manage the integration of new products into the Par Health supply planning process:
• Contribute to business process design and mapping as Supply Chain Planning SME.
• Own investigation and resolution of issues with respect to:
  Finished Drug product or Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) safety stocks;
  Inventory reconciliation;
  Production, intermediate and raw material lead times;
  Intermediate and raw material stock levels; MRP set up (item master, material master);
  Communication, internal and external.

• Establish highly effective and collaborative relationships with partners in Commercial, Supply Chain, Finance, Procurement, Quality and Manufacturing Operations.
• Generate supply plans within IBP process:
• Incorporate strategic initiatives into plans.
• Coordinate initiatives to identify Supply Chain improvements and opportunities that will optimize resource utilization, customer service levels and working capital in order to meet demand plans within the IBP process.
• Coordinate IBP Supply Meeting preparation. Align production plans & resource utilization, inventory projections and financial variables.
• Establish and propose methods of optimizing resources & costs while achieving production & inventory targets.
• Lead reviews of budgeted production volumes and assumptions.
• Lead IBP supply meetings to review supply/demand balances and inventory projections
• Lead reviews of opportunistic business management and risk mitigation.
• Lead review of slow & non-moving items with Finance, Supply Chain & Manufacturing.
• Establish Inventory policy, lead reviews of near/ long term target inventory & safety stock adherence.
• Generate Master Production plans to meet demand and inventory policy
• Recommend Purchase Order requirements to plant planning and procurement (finished product, intermediate product, materials)
• Manage planning parameters and rules in planning systems:
• Set up, maintain and review MRP and Planning System parameters.
• Manage stocking types.
• Validate net requirements.
• Manage Manufacturing Purchase Orders (where applicable).
• Write and execute test scripts.

• Communicate and coordinate with plants to generate and implement production plans required to meet demand forecasts while balancing manufacturing capacities, material availability, workforce requirements, and manufacturing efficiencies
• Generate near term Supply and Demand Balances for products on allocation and coordinate reviews with Commercial, Marketing, Corporate Planning, R&D, and Plant Planning necessary to provide recommendations on product allocations
• Drive discipline in safety stock and inventory reviews necessary to establish, monitor, and improve customer service performance while minimizing slow and non-moving inventory.
• Manage product network inventory forecasting and controls.
• Calculate, compile, and communicate business performance against key performance indicators and associated metrics for production plans, customer…