Supply Chain Planner

Today, Lonza is a global leader in life sciences operating across three continents. While we work in science, there’s no magic formula to how we do it. Our greatest scientific solution is talented people working together, devising ideas that help businesses to help people. In exchange, we let our people own their careers. Their ideas, big and small, genuinely improve the world. And that’s the kind of work we want to be part of.

Our team at Lonza AG in Visp, Switzerland is growing Join us too The Advanced Synthesis Supply Chain Network Planner is a pivotal role responsible to integrate demand and supply plans for multi-BU and multi-Divisional programs. This position ensures the flawless execution of supply chain planning and fulfilment, ensuring high customer service levels, efficient inventory levels.

**Key responsibilities**
- **Integrate Demand and Supply Plans**: Collect and analyze customer demand, interact with relevant BUs and sites to develop and update integrated supply chain plans and schedules for timely product delivery. Ensure synchronization across BUs and sites
- **Inventory management**: Ensure the Supply Plans result in an efficient level of intermediate inventory that enables flawless execution of customer programs while minimizing inventory holding costs
- **Indirect capacity and resource requirements**: Evaluate impact on production support areas, such as storage capacities, testing and release capacity and resources
- **Risk assessment and scenario development**: Identify potential discrepancies and risks across projects and BUs, develop alternative supply scenarios, define customer and business impact and recommend for decision making
- **Engagement with other supporting functions**: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including Production, PM, Procurement, and Logistics, to align supply strategies with financial and operational plans.
- **Customer Engagement**: Work with the PM team in customer-facing meetings to understand demand and present supply scenarios, providing feedback to cross-BU, cross-division teams
- **Collaborator Engagement**: Present data to key collaborators, including Supply Chain, Operations, Logistics, QC, PM, Finance, to understand opportunities & risks, and develop proposals for resolution to identified risks
- **Division S&OP collaboration**: Prepare and align supply scenarios with relevant supply chain teams for presentation at Division S&OP and facilitate decision making
- **Identify and implement process improvements** to improve supply chain network planning and participate in cross-functional projects for supply chain optimization of Cross-BU / Cross-Division planning and fulfillment processes.

**Key requirements and skills**
- Degree with Masters or equivalent experience in Engineering or Business Administration required and APICS qualification desired
- Shown experience of working in the pharmaceutical industry and a general understanding of the environment.
- Proven track record in supply chain planning, logistics, or a related field and handling end-to-end supply chain processes.
- Experience of working within a sophisticated matrix environment and a strong understanding of the Pharma/CDMO industry
- Familiarity with advanced planning systems and tools, such as SAP Integrated Business Planning and understanding of supply chain principles and standard methodologies
- Effective communication skills as well as Customer facing skills
- Collaborative and used to working in teams and the ability to influence collaborators in the organization
- Self-starter able to work with mínimal direction; high level of autonomy and self-learning
- Ability to prioritise multiple tasks and working to tight deadlines. Takes accountability for actions and supports others in taking ownership.

Every day, Lonza’s products and services have a positive impact on millions of people. For us, this is not only a great privilege, but also a great responsibility. How we achieve our business results is just as important as the achievements themselves. At Lonza, we respect and protect our people and our environment. Any success we achieve is no success at all if not achieved ethically.

People come to Lonza for the challenge and creativity of solving complex problems and developing new ideas in life sciences. In return, we offer the satisfaction that comes with improving lives all around the world. The satisfaction that comes with making a meaningful difference.