Associate Director, Global Network Supply and Inventory Planner - Albumin

The Global Network Supply and Inventory Planner is responsible for global supply, constraint, and inventory planning of CSL’s Products/Value Stream Albumin Products.  This role reports to the Global Head, Integrated Business Planning and influentially leads the fractionations/bulk production schedulers located in each site.    

This role is accountable for ensuring feasibility of our supply planning horizons (through 36-months) and for planning and setting working capital plans, globally.  This role owns and optimizes the use of the existing network capacity and makes recommendations for future capacity requirements to Network Strategy.   A broad range of collaboration across functions is required to ensure alignment of objectives in a demand-driven supply chain network. 

A successful candidate will be technically strong in supply chain planning and capable of managing a large global product line and/or a product with high supply chain complexity (multi-site/CMO) that has high importance and visibility.  The candidate will have a passion for servicing the patient, a mature understanding of Integrated Business Planning/S&OP processes, have a drive for continuous improvement, and proven experience in influencing and supporting all parts of the organization. 

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for the full horizon (0-36 months) of network supply and inventory plans for Albumin being manufactured at CSLB Manufacturing Sites – volume is the primary focus with a strong understanding of the financials.  This role sets the supply plans for all product volumes flowing through the sites.
  • Develops production and supply plans (rolling 36 months S&OP plans in Rapid Response) to meet the market demands and inventory targets, considering the availability of raw and intermediate materials.
  • Integrate 3-year and 10-year strategic demand plans with those operational demand plans in Rapid Response.
  • Owns the analysis for operational capacity planning including maximization of existing capacity, supply scenario analysis and long-range capital investment and capacity planning across all products, all manufacturing locations.
  • Escalates infeasible supply plans in the IBP cycle they are identified.  Provides scenarios with financial impact for presentation at Supply Review Meetings.  Collaborates across sites and functions to ensure gap minimizing scenarios are identified and feasible – this includes key stakeholder management across multiple functions 
• Responsible for global inventory plans of all Paste, Intermediates, semi-Finished Products, and Finished Products.   Ensures full visibility of inventory across the E2E Operations functions.
  • Establishes and manages SLAs with regional business teams to ensure inventory targets are defined, aligned in our systems, and fulfilled.  Responsible for inventory projections (Volume and Value) to support the financial planning process and to measure target performance.
• Supports the Supply Review Meetings (SRMs) and Global Supply Review Meeting (GSRM) with planning analysis, supply scenarios, and continuous improvement initiatives in order ensures feasible supply plans.  Supports the BU Executive IBP Meeting with analysis and scenarios to address supply or inventory plan escalations. 
• Collaborates closely with regional demand planners and finance to ensure demand plans have a feasible supply and inventory plans and aligned with “One Plan”, to validate plan-to-plan changes, to provide feedback on excess inventory situations, and to support root causing on service and cost issues.  Collaborates on supply allocation between markets when supply/demand imbalance exists. 
• Facilitates the integration of new product development, clinical trials and commercialization into the supply plans including commercialization calendars, demand and supply plans, and new strategic planning initiatives as needed.
• Measure key metrics to drive best practice and continuous improvement of the integrated business planning process, specifically supply and inventory management.  This includes plan performance, inventory turns, and service measurements.
• Drives resolution for supply chain issues through close coordination with manufacturing, quality, regulatory affairs, communications, marketing, and others as required to ensure that the needs of our patients, local affiliates and markets, and our business are met.
• Influential leader of the bulk production schedulers at each site and with our CMOs to align supply and inventory plans and track planning performance.
• Practices good IBP behaviors and helps to generate alignment across multiple business functions.  Leads metric review and root causing below-target performance with corrective action implementation.  Develops and clearly presents decisions to be made in IBP meetings which includes scenarios that have financial impact on the outcome of our business.

Required Skills:

• Bachelor’s Degree required from ideal fields of Supply Chain, Engineering, or Sciences; a Masters of Business Administration is preferred.
• Required to operate and influence in a global environment – English language fluency is required.
• Certification in APICS CPIM/CSCP, IBF, or similar is preferred

• Minimum 8 years’ experience in Supply Chain Planning and/or Supply Chain Management
• Minimum 5 years’ experience with SAP; Advanced SAP (S/4 HANA) knowledge
• Minimum 5 years’ experience with an advanced planning tool, Kinaxis RapidResponse, APO SNP, or other.
• Experience in business planning, S&OP, Project management or other relevant cross-functional processes is required
• Excellent business acumen and understanding of business strategies
• Excellent analytical, technical and problem solving skills
• Ability to embed culture of standardization, process improvement and value creation across the business
• Demonstrated communication and interpersonal skills in a global network
• Extraordinary ability to plan and organize work.
• Demonstrated capabilities in change management and stakeholder management
• Commitment to leading a continuous improvement culture within own area of responsibility
• Competencies required: Customer focus, strategic mindset, decision quality, drives results, plans & aligns, manages complexity, builds effective teams, drives engagement, and develops talent

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