Demand Planner II

Job Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you'll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. 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, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

Location/Division Specific Information

Cincinnati, OH - Pharma Services Group

What will you do?

• Plans, coordinates, and controls assigned finished goods, bulk product, supporting materials, and workflow to achieve high Client Service levels, lowest inventory investment, and highest plant efficiency.
• Uses SAP planning system, Taylor Shop Floor scheduling system, spreadsheet applications, make-to-order planning techniques/ knowledge, and professional direct to customer communications to achieve results
• Serves as a planning focal point for pre-commercial and post-launch projects. Supports project start-ups as assigned and effectively supports PDS products transferring to commercial sales.
• Serves as a planning point of contact for lifecycle management of commercial products.
• Accountable for sales unit forecasts, master scheduling planning (process orders), material requirements, batch material readiness, shop floor scheduling (dispatch list) through follow up of execution for manufacturing/ packaging batch approvals, carrier coordination and on-time shipment of product.
• Initiates and maintains SAP data accuracy for assigned materials, along with SOR data.
• Works with cross-functional areas of the site as well as the Customer to achieve expected results.
• Must be able to manage a variety of customers from low to high volume, low to high complexity.
• Uses SAP planning system to manage raw/pkg materials per customer forecasts.

• 2-3 years professional experience; supply chain or customer-facing preferred.
• Experience in enterprise business systems and business software (specifically, SAP) preferred.
• Experience in the pharmaceutical industry is preferred.

• Ability to inspire, foster innovation, and collaborate effectively across cross-functional teams.
• Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills.
• Strong commitment to internal and external customer service.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) and SAP.
• Ability to perform several tasks simultaneously to meet deadlines.
• Concise and effective written, verbal, and presentation skills.
• Strong understanding of GMP requirements.
• Organized and able to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Must be detail-oriented and able to prioritize multiple tasks.