Hemofarm is a member of STADA Group, one of the largest global generic pharmaceutical companies, which successfully operates in both the markets of Serbia and Western Balkans. Hemofarm produces high quality pharmaceutical products within the leading pharmacotherapeutic groups, observing the key corporate values: Agility, Integrity, Entrepreneurship and ONE STADA.

Material Planning Specialist

Place of work: Belgrade/Vršac

Limited time contract: 2 years

About job:

Material Planning Specialist is responsible for the Materials Requirements Planning (MRP) process and its successful operation within the APO/SAP system. The objective of the role is to create and maintain valid material requirement plans that meet the needs of the Site Production Plan in combination with profound analysis of the major KPIs/PIs for material planning process as well as Supply Chain In-house activities.

Job description:

• Expert in SAP/APO MRP fully exploiting alerts, and exception messages, to enable materials management “by exception”. Expert for material planning & inventory parameters in the SAP/APO system
• Constant monitoring of material requirement and system generated messages and reports
• Provide analysis on the materials being out of the targeted range, and identifying root cause as well as defining CAPA measures
• Supporting Site Supply Chain Head in the KPIs report calculation, preparation for business reviews, supply review, analyze gaps vs target as well as define actions in cooperation with Material Planners, Production planners, Supply Network Planners, Site Inventory Owner with regards to material planning KPIs/PIs
• Managing material requisitions to deliver stock levels, for each material, in accordance to inventory policy through analysis of all supply chain factors
• Maintain all material inventories between the defined Min and Max inventory levels
• Weekly coordination with Procurement to ensure that forecasted Supplier deliveries are aligned with the Material Plan and the needs of the Site
• Coordination with Quality to ensure the forecasted Material releases are aligned with the Material Plan and the needs of the Site
• Coordination with Production planners to continuously align the Material Plan with the Production Plan
• Evaluation of change requests from the Production planner and informing responsible Procurement Buyer, change that require a change to open Purchase Orders
• Coordinate feasibility evaluation with Procurement and provide feedback to the Production Planner
• Identify losses in the end-to-end Material Supply Chain and propose improvements with purchasing and operations departments
• Provide input to Inhouse Supply Planner for Critical Materials
• Oversee and in relationship with purchasing to improve supplier performance

Your qualification:

• University degree in Technology, Economics or Business
• English language at the level of C1, knowledge of German language is a plus 
• Minimum 2-years’ experience as a Supply/Production Planner within Pharma or other batch production, make to stock, manufacturing environments
• Experience with SAP MPS, MRP and APO 
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate across boundaries (functional, cultural, language) and form effective working relationships with colleagues
• Knowledge of shipping and receiving – material planners plan and verify incoming and outgoing shipments and fully understand the process of preparing and receiving shipments
• Demonstrated change management and process management experience is preferred: demonstrated usage of data to drive process improvements
• Critical thinking and organizational skills

We offer:

• Continuous learning environment
• Chance for a professional and personal development
• Private health insurance
• Language learning platform for 14 languages with vast type of written and conversational courses
• Personalized mental health and wellbeing support for our employees and their families via Kyan Health application