• Material Planning Lead recognizes, analyzes, influences, and consolidates all demand signals into a complete demand plan for the site.
• Responsible for creating detailed material requirements providing plans for each component whether raw material supplied by external or internal vendors, intermediate products, or shipping items produced internally to the Site and communicating priorities through production schedules, supplier schedules or pulls mechanisms.

Responsibilities:

• Order Management: verifies material availability, documentation readiness and confirmation of deliveries to site.
• Ensure material availability in line with the approved production plan.
• Ensure daily MRP oversight for all BOM material, analysis of requirements.
• Own MRP relevant data and materials technical specifications.
• Ensure the stock (safety stock and cycle stock) for incoming materials are available and managed.
• Coordinate with warehouse and Quality department to ensure the relevant activities are completed in line with the production needs.
• Manage planning & logistics for sample testing at external test sites.
• Control and follow-up of supplier’s service level indicators: Quality OTIF, lead-time violation.
• Manage planning & execution of material transfer between different Novartis sites for commercial and clinical needs.
• Perform write off activities for expired and un-utilized sources and commercial batches.
• Perform monthly/quarterly reconciliation of raw materials in Microsoft Dynamics 365.
• Lead action plans to achieve supplier delivery performance targets and drive for continuous improvement.
• Actively supports the global S&OP process.