Senior Demand Planner at Thermo Fisher Scientific in West Point, Pennsylvania

Job Description:

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)



Environmental Conditions

Office



Job Description



As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you'll discover meaningful work that positively impacts a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world's toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, ensuring our food is safe, or helping find cures for cancer.




Location/Division Specific Information



We are the Clinical Trials Division (CTD): We Supply the Hope that Changes Lives


CTD partners with pharmaceutical and biotech customers worldwide to ensure the right patients get the suitable therapies in the proper doses at the right time - a concept we internally embrace as "There is a Patient Waiting." Our unique blend of services includes project management, packaging, distribution, transportation management and specialty logistics, ancillary supply management, clinical supply optimization, bio-repository storage, and much more. Our more than 4000 employees in over 15 countries work hard daily, knowing what they do matters.

• On-site expectations in client facilities specific to the locations listed below.
  
  
  • Rahway, NJ
  
  
  • West Point, PA
  
  
  • Boston, MA
  
  
  
  

A Day in the Life:

• Design, Implement, Interpret, and Review an inventory management plan to forecast the supply of study drugs to global clinical trials using sound supply chain techniques.


• Provide input into User Requirement Specifications of Interactive Response Technology (IRT) medication management module and complete User Acceptance Testing if required.


• Review the IRT strategy to ensure it supports the strategic supply plans and that IRT settings are adjusted to optimize supply and demand.


• Ensures robust plans and optimizes global and regional supply strategies to ensure continuity of subject supply most effectively and efficiently.


• Establishes connections between Thermo Fisher demand planning teams and client-specific project teams, ensuring partnership while representing Thermo Fisher Scientific in a professional manner.


• Partners with internal and external project teams. Interact directly with the customer at their facility to proactively share key data to facilitate an effective supply chain planning cycle.


• Ensure the temperature excursion process is performed as required.


• Assist in training and onboarding of new employees (buddy concept)


• Stay on top of relevant cGMPs, GCPs, and other regulatory requirements and ensure study management activities are aligned.


• Demonstrate and promote company vision.


• Conduct activities safely and efficiently.

As Demonstrated By:




Project Management

• Structures demand plans in line with client strategy, starting from an identified need and setting objectives and specific goals.


• Speaks and writes clearly, concisely, and organized. Listens carefully to others to ensure understanding and effective communication.

Technical Knowledge

• Independently digests data that applies to project results and collaborators.


• Manages the demand planning part of projects efficiently in different systems and maintains their own and the team's accountability for using Thermo Fisher tools to help the team be successful.


• Demonstrates technical proficiency and uses innovations to advance the efficiency and effectiveness of work processes, procedures, and outputs.


• Knowledge of general inventory and billing principles, good documentation practices, and report generation.

Project Management Leadership

• Works to resolve or raise solutions to problems quickly. Develops vitality among cross-functional teams to influence project timelines.


• Communicates at the proper time, understands boundaries, respects differences, and confronts tension. Ensures that all communications are clear, focused, and based on a shown understanding of needs, using the most appropriate medium.

Keys to Success:





Education

• A bachelor's degree in supply chain and business/operations management is preferred.

Experience

• 4+ years of supply chain and/or planning experience leading global supply chain design and logistics management, preferably as they relate to clinical program design and execution (equivalent combinations of education, training, and relevant work experience may be considered).


• Understanding of clinical supply requirements, phases of clinical development, and the factors that influence study designs preferred.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Requires a strong understanding of the manufacturing process and the ability to analyze cost implications for the overall business.


• Requires enhanced PC knowledge and skills using Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint) products. SAP experience preferred.


• Requires social skills and the ability to lead and work in teams including client services, technical, planning, and financial expertise.


• Requires excellent analytical and organizational skills.


• Ability to professionally represent Thermo Fisher while working directly within a customer site


• APICS certification or equivalent preferred.

This position does not offer relocation benefits.



Benefits:



We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus, healthcare, and a range of employee benefits. Thermo Fisher Scientific offers employment with an innovative, forward-thinking organization with outstanding career and development prospects. We provide an exciting company culture for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation! Apply Now