Master Planner Biologics

**About** the role**:
The Master Planner has the global planning responsibility of the entire supply chain (end-to-end [E2E] view) for highly complex product groups by collection, aggregation and propagation of demand, supply, inventory and capacity data.

S/he creates an accurate E2E master production schedule (MPS) as well as develops appropriate different scenarios for the assigned product portfolio thereby coordinating the production, allocation and distribution of commercial and/or clinical products from the manufacturing site(s) to the regions/countries.

The Master Planner’s responsibility will cover on-time-supply & customer service levels, inventory strategy & management, cost optimization and all other supply chain related activities from Working Cell Bank to Final Drug Product (FDP) to ensure GxP and regulatory compliant product is available for patients. This ultimately enables Takeda to have a robust replenishment strategy while balancing site efficiency and costs, CMO spend, patient requirements and the financial and other objectives of the OpU and company.

S/he needs to understand and communicate the impact of supply plan and forecast deviations, employ effective issue resolution as well as determine and recommend the best course of action.

The Master Planner conveys and aligns the supply plans with the different stakeholders including being the primary Supply Planning representative in the cross functional Product team (PT). S/he will contribute to overall Life Cycle Management including Long Range planning, Launch, pruning and involved with activities and projects aimed at improving the overall Takeda Supply Chain.

**Functions**

**Own & Execute Master plans for end-to-end network**
- Balance supply with demand respecting production capacities and market needs to generate, smooth out short term variability and ultimately maintain Master Production Schedules (MPS) from WCB input to Final Drug Product
- The Master Planner is responsible for ensuring that the planning cycle is adhered to
- Align with Biologics OpU/site on capacity usage and utilization, verifying and challenging capabilities where appropriate, providing input into the Takeda budget processes
- Collaborates and aligns with internal sites and/or CMOs in a handover of the master production schedules
- Owns and understands the demand signals including the MRP/MYC (36 month) and LRF (11 year) horizons and supports the resolution of the different forecasts to have a robust and validated E2E forecast
- Develops content and scenarios for the required governance including S&OP, GSRM etc. to properly communicate and resolve issues with the plan, review performance and gain endorsed decisions on tradeoff situations and changes to DS/DP production plans
- Ensures that inventory levels for all production stages between WCB to FDP are on target, and this ultimately supports customer service levels for Finished Drug Product while optimizing the cost of product (COGS)
- Monitors inventory status and takes corrective actions to minimize slow moving inventory highlighting potential inventory shortages/excess and taking steps to mitigate write offs.
- Drives appropriate communication and escalation for supply issues through the relevant governance and processes
- Ensures ERP system planning parameters and master data are maintained to enable accurate Master plans to be generated.
- Interfaces with supply planners / production planners, including the required usage of systems and processes to ensure execution of the MPS
- Supports usage and improvement of globally harmonized planning processes and systems

**Project related activities**
- Steer the lifecycle management of the portfolio in including participating in projects to ensure long term market supply, lead launch management and geographic expansion activities as well as execute the appropriate rationalization
- Provide long range capacity planning (LRCP) insights, drive network design decisions, point of contact in case of site/network capacity requests to support expansions
- The Master Planner participates in projects with CMC teams to support key initiatives by providing analysis of supply scenarios and capacity impact on internal sites.
- Participates and supports the planning required for qualification / validation batches and tech transfers.
- Works with Regulatory teams to identify supply bottlenecks and maps out solutions to resolve supply constraints in the future.
- Assess network change requests against regulatory prioritization to ensure supply continuity and highlight constraints in case of conflicting priorities and review site specific project plans from network and market perspective
- Coordinate and participate to Product team initiatives across the product network from supply chain perspective i.e strategic projects, lifecycle management roadmap, risk register review, network VSA (Value Stream Analysis) initiatives
- Act as the link from supply chain to stakeholders