About the role
**Planning Specialist Summary**
The Planning Specialist plays a crucial role in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry, ensuring the efficient planning and coordination of various operational activities. While specific responsibilities may vary depending on demand, below are essential functions for this role:
**Essential Job Functions:**
* Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop and implement supply chain strategies.
* Ensure the availability of raw materials, components, and finished products to meet production demands.
* Develop and maintain production schedules to optimize resource utilization and meet production targets.
* Coordinate with manufacturing teams to ensure timely execution of production plans.
* Monitor and manage inventory levels to prevent stockouts or overstock situations.
* Utilize data analysis and forecasting tools to predict product demand.
* Identify potential risks in the supply chain and develop contingency plans. Proactively address issues related to logistics, production delays, and supply shortages.
* Implement process improvements to enhance operational efficiency. Analyze key performance indicators (KPIs) and recommend enhancements to optimize the supply chain.
* Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, quality standards, and industry best practices. Stay informed about changes in regulations affecting supply chain operations.
* Support new product introduction, BOM’s and item master as needed.
* Update existing reports, track departmental performance metrics, and generate new reports.
* Work closely with all internal and external suppliers and vendors.
**Special Job Requirements:**
* High School/GED
* 2-5 years of experience as a Planning Specialist or similar role
* Sufficient experience using electronic ERP systems and Excel
* Successful experience interacting and collaborating with internal and external clients, customers, and/or suppliers
**Special Job Preferences:**
* Bachelor’s degree
* Prior experience in a cGMP environment
* ASCM or ISM certification
**Additional info about INCOG BioPharma Services:**
_At INCOG BioPharma we have built a world-class CDMO for parenteral injectable drugs. Our culture and priorities are different by design: focused on building long-term value for our customers, we are committed to a service-culture mindset, technical excellence, and a collaborative and team-centered approach to doing business._
_If you crave the challenge of creating systems from scratch and believe you have insights for a better way of doing business, which benefits customers by ensuring quality outcomes and accelerating their route to market, we want to hear from you. Unless otherwise specified, all positions are based out of our Fishers, IN offices. Please note, we are a smoke-free campus._
_INCOG BioPharma is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. All employment decisions at INCOG BioPharma are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical disability, sexual orientation, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. We will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics._
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